[OKFN-CH] WG: help needed

Mon Sep 22 19:55:11 UTC 2014

Excellent suggestions. Please feel free to add them & more to our wiki of Open
Data from around the world <http://make.opendata.ch/wiki/data:global> and Open
Geo Data <http://make.opendata.ch/wiki/data:geo>. One I would recommend as
a starting point is Datahub.io, the OKFN-run portal of open data portals.

Cheers,
Oleg

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On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Sarven Capadisli <info at csarven.ca> wrote:

> On 2014-09-22 16:03, Riedl Reinhard wrote:
>
>> *Von:*okfn-ch [mailto:okfn-ch-bounces at lists.okfn.org] *Im Auftrag von
>> *Muriel Staub
>> *Gesendet:* Montag, 22. September 2014 15:54
>> *An:* okfn-ch at lists.okfn.org
>> *Betreff:* [OKFN-CH] help needed
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I would appreciate it if somebody of you could help me with the
>> following subject:
>>
>> We were contacted by public authorities who are looking for official and
>> open data containing all countries, cities, provinces etc. of the entire
>> world.
>>
>> As far as I was told, the Swiss Federal Office for Statistics only has
>> the data for Europe and CH.
>>
>> Thanks for letting me know if you have an idea where this data is openly
>> available.
>>
>
> I presume when you are interested in metadata e.g., codes, labels about
> those areas types, as opposed to observations or studies including those
> areas. Can you specify whether you are after economic, geopolitical or
> geographic divisions?
>
> AFAIK, there is no agency that has a standardized collection of the
> divisions that you are after. You'll have to hunt down each statistical
> agency per country if you want to get the complete "official" list of
> provinces and cities. See how far the following will get you:
>
> * http://geonames.org/ (unofficial)
>
> * http://openstreetmap.org/ with http://linkedgeodata.org/  (unofficial)
>
> * http://linkedgeodata.org/GADM  (RDF conversion of GADM). See also:
> http://gadm.geovocab.org/
>
> * http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/nuts_
> nomenclature/introduction (EU only) -- There is an RDF serialization of
> this at http://eurostat.linked-statistics.org/dic/geo
>
> * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_administrative_
> subdivision_codes
>
> * Number of cities that you can probably dig out of DBpedia/Wikidata:
> http://dbpedia.org/sparql?default-graph-uri=http%3A%2F%
> 2Fdbpedia.org&query=Select+Count%28*%29+{+%3Fs+a+dbpedia-
> owl%3ACity+}&format=text%2Fhtml&timeout=30000&debug=on
> <http://dbpedia.org/sparql?default-graph-uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org&query=Select+Count%28*%29+%7B+%3Fs+a+dbpedia-owl%3ACity+%7D&format=text%2Fhtml&timeout=30000&debug=on>
> ;) See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_cities_by_country
>
>
> You may need to mix and match in the end :S
>
> -Sarven
> http://csarven.ca/#i
>
>
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