"This is a pilot program with the aim to increase public access to data managed by The City," said, Heather Reed-Fenske, an IT Manager with The City.
"This catalogue is implemented in the hope that the data provided will be used to benefit all citizens."
The Public Data Catalogue is available on the Calgary Online Store.
The Data is available in a number of formats, primarily geospatial information. Data sets relate to City services, facilities and amenities.
Users are welcome to make further suggestions and vote for ideas in the Idea Forum on the online store.
Get the data and tell us what you think at http://calgaryonlinestore.com/publicdata.asp
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The non-commercial use and other restrictive terms make the data not useful for open, collaborative projects like OpenStreetMap.
ReplyDeleteData needs to pass the "cake test"... If I want a special cake made that shows some map data as a decoration, then it needs to be allowed to freely share it (with the baker) who reuses it for profit (making a cake) and redistributes it.
It's also important to be able to mix data sources (city's data), with crowdsourced data from projects like OpenStreetMap or other sources. But, then as data gets mixed and redistributed downstream, it's impossible to accept "fully responsible for any consequences resulting from any use of the Data"
Examples of good terms of use include NRCAN's GeoGratis site:
http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/licence.jsp
Seattle's Open Data site's terms of use are very simple (though the attribution text is onerous):
http://data.seattle.gov/data-policy