[Open-data-census] Feedback on standards for City Census datasets

Mon Feb 17 17:27:40 UTC 2014

Thanks James, Tracey!

Would be fantastic if you (and others joining this thread with suggestions)
could perhaps put your ideas here:
https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjAcHTKULuf8dG11c2stOU1BMzB4bEs4VzlpRXRzeGc&usp=drive_web#gid=3

That should give us a grand overview of the many ideas.

Thanks!
-Christian

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault <tlauriau at gmail.com>wrote:

> Now that I am reading James' list
>
> Postal Code files, In Canada electoral districts are tied to the postal
> code, with your postal code you can find your voting station, who you MP,
> MPP and city councilor is and you can know in which electoral district you
> are in.
>
> I agree that ESRI files should be considered suitable, especially since
> many enterprise GIS systems are in ESRI, or autodesk formats and it would
> be unrealistic to have them change thousands of legacy datasets from
> massive legacy and robust system.  Also, having wms and wfs files is also
> great as they can interoperate with other data distributed mapping
> systems.  Also, in Canada, the Geo folks were the first to share their data
> in a portal called GeoGratis and they were able to do it, as they provided
> the data in the format that were used in the producing institution and then
> they pointed to conversion services.  That ensured integrity of the
> originating dataset and enabled the 'sharer' to do so with the least amount
> of effort required, which meant, more sharing.
>
> Cheers
> t
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 5:14 PM, James McKinney <james at opennorth.ca>wrote:
>
>> A very simple dataset that very few governments publish is simply a
>> spreadsheet listing all elected officials for that government, along with
>> contact information. A few governments in Canada have been adopting common
>> CSV headers for this dataset.
>>
>> If the officials are elected by district/division, a geospatial dataset
>> should be made available to describe the boundaries of the electoral
>> districts. With respect to format, all governments I've been in touch with
>> have geospatial datasets available as ESRI Shapefile. GeoJSON is great, but
>> it is very easy to convert a shapefile, so I don't think the census should
>> demand GeoJSON.
>>
>> Also, if the officials are elected by district/division, a spreadsheet
>> should be made available mapping each address in the government's territory
>> to the district in which it belongs. In many cases, it is not possible to
>> simply use a geocoder and a boundaries file to determine which district an
>> addresses belongs to; for example, in the US, each floor of an apartment
>> building may belong to a different district.
>>
>> Another valuable dataset is a simple listing of each elected position
>> within government (i.e. a description of the position itself, not the
>> person who holds it).
>>
>> With these datasets, it is possible to build a basic but fundamental
>> service like https://developers.google.com/civic-information/ which
>> allows citizens to look up representatives by address. I can provide
>> example datasets for each of these.
>>
>> James
>>
>> On 2014-02-17, at 11:43 AM, Tracey P. Lauriault wrote:
>>
>> Greetings all;
>>
>> I wonder if building inspections would be a good complement to building
>> permits? That way data about building quatity and the quality of stock can
>> be known.  Big issue in rental markets.
>>
>> Also, Canadian cities and Dublin track data about Housing and
>> homelessness, and I wonder if those would not be good socip-economic
>> indicators.
>>
>> a) stock of social housing in a city, and the count of those on social
>> housing registry waiting lists
>> b) data about the homeless populations as per shelter counts in a city
>> c) data about foodbank usage
>>
>> Cheers
>> t
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Christian Villum <
>> christian.villum at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>> We're putting together a list of standard datasets for the coming
>>> City-Census (as part of the Local Open Data Census)
>>>
>>>
>>> https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqR8dXc6Ji4JdEEwSFF6OTJTMnhYa3h2ZS1temlDS3c&usp=drive_web#gid=0
>>>
>>> Feedback appreciated!
>>>
>>> -Christian
>>>
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