[Open-data-census] Census questions from Russia

Mon Sep 30 18:45:01 BST 2013

Hi Ivan,

Adding a couple of comments below. Everyone else, please feel free to add
further comments based on your experience.

> *1. About transport timetables.*
>
> We are not really sure how to measure this all.

It's a difficult one (shared by many others, I assume). Do you remember how
you approached this back in June?
I would suggest perhaps focusing on the most prominent dataset available on
national level, if any, or any other data set that might classify as the
most important one, and submit that with a copy/paste of your explanation
from this email in the comments field.

> *2. Emissions of pollutants*
>
> Actually our situation on openness of this type of data is far from
ideal, at the
> same time I would like to understand - should we measure water, air and
soil
> pollutants, or radiation also should be measured?

As I understand those data are not available from same source? This
category is meant to focus on the availability of general pollution, and in
case these data are only available under separate conditions and from
separate sources, I would love to hear from the rest of the community if
this is the case elsewhere (so we can learn from that) and in any case,
suggestions and ideas for how it may be approached?

-Christian

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On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Ivan Begtin <ibegtin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> Here in Russia we are working on review of current open data census for
> our country. I am not really sure that we are very-very open country,
> that's why I've collected a few questions about census.
>
> *1. About transport timetables.*
>
> Since Russia is federation and republic this data is actually dispersed
> over different government agencies, reginal governments and local
> governments.
> If I understand transport timetables right then it includes:
> - rail transport timetables
> - air transport timetables
> - bus transport timetables
>
> So for Russia nearly all of this data is avaiable but under different
> conditions.
> Rail transport data well consolidated and actually open except machine
> readability and open licenses.
> Air transport timetables available via commercial operators.
> And bus transport timetables is not consolidated.
>
> We are not really sure how to measure this all.
>
> When I see other countries I find that, for example, Canadian timetables
> marked as open (http://2013.census.okfn.org/country/overview/Canada/) but
> when I follow the link provided - I can't find anything -
> http://data.gc.ca/data/en/dataset?q=transport&catalog_type=Data+%7c+Donn%25C3%25A9es
>
> *2. Emissions of pollutants*
> *
> *
> Actually our situation on openness of this type of data is far from ideal,
> at the same time I would like to understand - should we measure water, air
> and soil pollutants, or radiation also should be measured?
>
> For example Russian atomic agency provides radiation monitoring data
> online - http://www.russianatom.ru/ . It's not opendata yet, but I hope
> that it will be soon.
>
> We are still looking for more emission of pollutants data sources.
>
>
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>
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