Folks, tl;dr - go to https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OpenDataIreland and complete the survey to get the Irish govt to open up more geo data for us to use with open licences
I want to make you aware of a survey being run by Dept. of Public Enterprise and Reform. For those not aware, it is this dept which is responsible for driving the open data process in govt. They have done some good work so far on data.gov.ie which has something like 500 datasets so far. Granted most are not compliant in formats or are not of any value, but it is a good start. Part of the next step is asking the public what data is considered high value as this is what they will focus on releasing next (where possible). With this is mind they are running at survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/OpenDataIreland which I would like to ask as many of you as possible to complete. They will ask for personal details and I was a bit hesitant at first, but then realised the govt has all my personal details already. I was in the process of completing the survey and ranked geospatial data as my number 1 choice in question 3. In question 5 it asks you to list 5 datasets that you would consider high value. I put the following: * Full & accurate boundary data for all boundaries in Ireland (coastline, counties, townlands, towns, cities, etc) released as shapefiles * Full set of roads shapefile to include all associated attribute data (speed limit, road classification, name, reference number e.g. N17 etc) * Building footprint shapefile for all buildings in Ireland including related attribute data (building type (house, apartment etc), address, age built etc) * Shapefile of all historic monuments and site in Ireland including all related attribute data (name, feature type, age, etc) * Full release of Eircode post code data points for all of Ireland Feel free to copy or add your own The survey took about 10 mins to complete and only contains 12 questions in total so I would urge you all to take a few mins to complete it, you never know, it could lead to a load of OSi & other useful data being opened up that we can use Thanks, Dave _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
