Welcome to the Vancouver Open Data Wiki

We are interested in promoting and using Open Data to improve liveability and governance in (Metro) Vancouver, in particular to follow-up on the City of Vancouver's Open Data, Open Standards and Open Source motion.

• see cbc.ca story
• see eaves.ca story

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Join the discussion group and keep in touch: http://groups.google.ca/group/vancouver-data

Open Data Events - (Metro) Vancouver

• Open Data Hackathon - September 2009
• Open Data Hackathon - December 2009
• Open Data Hackathon - January 2010
• Open Data Hackathon - April 22 2010

Open Data Projects - (Metro) Vancouver

• VanTrash.ca
• VanTrash helps you manage your neighbourhood garbage schedule more effectively. You can find out your garbage schedule, download the schedule to your calendar or set a reminder to your email. Never forget to take the garbage out again.
• Vancouver Find a Fountain!
• Google map for finding water and cool places during heat wave-
• Vancouver Water Fountains Mashup
• Vancouver Sewer System Mashup (Broken Link - anyone know where it went?)
• TransitDB
• TransitDB aims to transform the way commuters interact with public transit information systems, by improving ease of information access, and by presenting the data more effectively. It is an effort to provide a modern, clean, and user-friendly interface for transit data. It achieves this by leveraging modern and emerging web technologies.
• Transit data derived from TransLink public timetables. Not affiliated with TransLink.
• (unofficial) Translink API
• VanGuide (open source)
• VanGuide mashes up Vancouver Open Data catalogue with TransLink and Impark data (sample dataset) to create a social map of Vancouver. It allows rating, tagging and commenting on data points via Twitter, as well as adding custom data points -- enabling social interactions around Open Data landmarks in Vancouver.
• This project has a web and an iPhoneapplcation
• The code is released as open source project: Open Data Application Framework (ODAF)
• New Westminster Community Garden map
• MatthewL: link?
• Campaign Finance
• Vancouver Reference Map @ GeoCommons
• negeriads.com solusi berpromosi
• Essays Canada
• Seized Cars
• Vancouver Parking 2010
• Allows to find parking in Vancouver using Catalogue data, as well as private datasets from Impark, Advanced Parking Systems and Metro Parking.
• Graffiti crime map proof of concept

Open Data Sources - (Metro) Vancouver

• City of Vancouver: Open Data Catalogue - Beta version
• City of Vancouver Archives: Digitized Archival Movies (select 'Digitized Moving Images' as the only search option to retrieve a list of all 150 downloadable movies)
• Google 3D Warehouse: Vancouver Buildings
• City of New Westminster: 3D Neighbourhood building blocks
• TransLink: GTFS Data (Public Transit Schedules)
• Impark parking data, Translink & Open Data Catalogue (subset): API-enabled OGDI interface

Open Data Projects - Ideas for the taking

If you have an idea for a municipal application or mashup using open data and are looking for other people to work on the idea with, or are simply willing to give the idea away, a list of potential projects is being cultivated on the Ideas for the taking page.

Open Data Projects - Examples from Elsewhere

• How'd They Vote?
• Have you ever wondered how your member of parliament has been voting? We've made it easy for you to find out! Contained herein are many of the pivotal votes in the House of Commons, complete with voting history, dissension, attendance and speaking habits.
• Disclosed.ca
• Disclosed.ca keeps track of Federal Government contracts available since 2004 under the Government of Canada Proactive Disclosure.
• FixMyStreet.ca
• FixMyStreet.ca allows citizens to report problems such as potholes, poor lighting, and unsafe pathways in their neighborhood.
• **We need to add Vancouver and other Metro Vancouver municipalities to this site**
• Stumble Safely
• A guide to bars and avoiding crime in Washington, DC using data from DC Crime Data, DC Road Polygons, DC Liquor Licenses, DC Bedini MotorDC Water Polygons, DC Parks, and DC Metro Stations.

Open Data Sources - Examples from Elsewhere

• City of Washington, DC: Data Catalog
• City of Nanaimo: Data Catalog (yes, Nanaimo)
• District of North Vancouver: GeoWeb Geographic Data Download
• City of New York Data Catalog
• City of Toronto Data Catalog
• Country of Australia Data Catalog
• United Kingdom Data Catalog

Open Data Resources

• Drupal Module for GIS Mapping: http://drupal.org/project/openlayers
• Datamob
• highlights the connection between public data sources and the interfaces people are building for them.
• Google Maps HowTo's:
• Intro video
• MyMap help
• Digital Book
• CivicDB
• a free, open source platform (under development) to help improve public access to raw government data in machine readable formats.
• EveryBlock code
• The code used to publish the EveryBlock.com microlocal news website, and mafia wars tips available under GPL v3 license
• Putting Government Data Online
• best practices for putting government data online by Tim "I invented the Web" Berners-Lee
• MapStraction
• Mapstraction is a library that provides a common API for various javascript mapping APIs to enable switching from one to another as smoothly as possible. Developers can code their applications once, and then easily switch mapping provider based on project needs, terms and conditions, and new functionality.
• Water!
• Screen capture video of how to setup up a Google Maps mashup using Drupal (using Vancouver's Open Data on Drinking Fountains)
• DBpedia.org
• DBpedia is a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web. DBpedia allows you to ask sophisticated queries against Wikipedia, and to link other data sets on the Web to Wikipedia data.