Very pleased to share the launch of Vancouver's much expanded open data site. Check it out at data.vancouver.ca
It continues to be amazing to see how fast the open 3 initiative is moving. Many thanks owed to city staff for building the site, and the systems that feed it, in the six months since Council approved the initiative.
Some fast facts on the new things you'll find at the site:
- You now have access to the most current data the city has. Routines have been set up so most of the data
is extracted for the Open Data website on a weekly basis (noting that some of it
never or rarely changes).
- Significantly more data is available, approximately 100 layers of data in all (plus several packages of data). Almost all of the data is already available for viewing in VanMap
- The data is now available in more formats. Almost all of the GIS data is available in three formats (DWG, SHP, KML), while some is available in CSV and XLS.
- Much of the data can be displayed in Google Maps or Bing Map with a single mouse click.
- The site is now easier to use and data can be downloaded with fewer clicks.
- The City's RSS and GeoRSS feeds are now easier to find.
- In support of the the Integrated Cadastral Information Society (ICIS), as requested in Council's Open3 motion, two data packages have been created specifically for ICIS to meet their specifications. This will make it much easier for them to accept and further distribute our data.
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