[Open-data-census] 2014 Global Open Data Index for Ireland is complete

[Ignacio Alfaro]

Suggestion from a country with Postal Codes but with no addresses:

We do have a Postal Code numbered for every district.. BUT we do not have
addresses.
We do not have the normal Street Name and building number system.

We have to use addresses as: "From abc store (or church or specific point),
x meters north/east/south/west. House green and white on the right".

See this example: Web Page of the Ministry of Justice
<http://www.mjp.go.cr/Informacion/Contactenos.aspx#contact>. Address below
in this page: 50 m. norte de la clínica bíblica. Frente a la Esc. Marcelino
García Flamenco, which is 50 meters north of Biblical Medical Clinic, in
front of Marcelino García Flamenco School.


Then, this should be the metric: Road names and Building numbers.

Which I am sure Ireland has and we don't and frankly it seems more relevant
to have this than to have Postal Codes which we have but this metric does
not reflect the real caos of our addressess.

OK?




2014-11-19 3:29 GMT-06:00 Pierre Chrzanowski <pierre.chrzanowski at gmail.com>:

> Thanks Tracey,
>
> Two quick remarks:
>
> I had a quick look to spending and it is said it is spending data at the
> level of agency or programme but the definition asks spending data at a
> transactional level on specific items.
>
> On the subject of PostCode dataset, I actually think we should remove this
> dataset from the Census as it is not consistent among countries and replace
> it with Address data.
>
> Best
> Pierre
>
>
>
> On Wed Nov 19 2014 at 2:15:45 AM Tracey P. Lauriault <tlauriau at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Greetings all;
>>
>> For the moment, providing all the others are complete, Ireland is ranked
>> at #27, with 540 points.  See here - http://global.census.okfn.org/
>> place/ie
>>
>> Much work needs to be done on licencing, machine readability, bulk
>> downloading, and the cost of the data.
>>
>> Last year Ireland ranked 24th with 460 points.  The ranking is relative
>> to other countries and we will have to wait until the final tally is in to
>> assess how to compare.
>>
>> Why did we do better by 80 points?  Well we were more sure this time on
>> some variables, I think we were a little less knowledgeable last year about
>> bulk downloads, and we were unsure about licences, and so on.  Again, we
>> will have to sit and compare more carefully to explain the differences once
>> the final for 2014 is complete overall.
>>
>> *Can the OKF clarify* if Ireland is penalized in the ranking due to its
>> lack of a postal code system.  For example, since we do not have one it is
>> a 0%, how does that affect us overall in the points? Should our points be
>> averaged out of 9 indicators instead of 10?
>>
>> There were many submissions provided, and many comments and all of these
>> were taken into account and responses were qualified.
>>
>> This index is useful in terms of evaluating the qualities of the data but
>> not necessarily data quality.  Also, some concepts could use some
>> refinements, for example, national map, national statistics, and the
>> concept of bulk download, for example one cannot feasibly bulk download the
>> entire national statistics database, or all the national maps.
>>
>> Please let me know if there are any outstanding issues on this file.
>>
>> I will also review the Canadian ranking, currently my co-editor is James
>> McKinney from Open North.  He has accepted the submissions by I promised to
>> take a little peak.
>>
>> Cheerio
>> Tracey
>>
>> --
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