[openspending-dev] Improvement of offenerhaushalt.at

[Krabina Bernhard]

Hi Rufus,

> > This is mainly due to the fact that
> > 1. We have all the data of the Austrian municipalities available
> > already. Due to legal reasons, we can only make them available to
> > the public if each municipality individually agrees. Unless we
> > have this agreement, we can only store the data in a database we
> > have control over and provide the data/visualisation to the
> > municipalities they refer to. Of course we believe in public and
> > open budget data, but it will take a while until we have all 2.354
> > municipalities convinced :-)
> 
> Not sure I understand here: if you can't make the data publicly
> available then it does not matter where data is stored (??).

Well it has to be stored in a database we are in control of. Our CEO would not agree to store it anywhere where we cannot guarantee who can get access to it...

> Could you post this in an editable google doc and then link from the
> wiki e.g. https://github.com/openspending/openspending/wiki/Wishlist

is done.

regards,
Bernhard