Convenient Open Data Repository for Cologne

Description

This repository re-publishes some open datasets for the city of Cologne and offers alternative formats and specific tools in order to facilitate the applications of that data. By using GitHub it should also become easy to follow changes and updates in the datasets.

Beschreibung

Dieses Repository hält einige offene Datensätze der Stadt Köln bereit, um deren Anwendung zu erleichtern. Durch den Gebrauch von GitHub soll es zudem einfacher sein, Änderungen und Aktualisierungen an den Daten nachvollziehen zu können.

Community

For discussion of the content and use of this repository, please reach out to the KölnAPI group mailing list.

Content / Inhalt

data

This folder contains data, raw and converted. See README files inside the sectsion for additional info.

budget - Public budget/finance data

elections - Election results and candidates

employment - Statistical data on (un-)employment

energy - electricity, ...

environment - Weather, air, ...

geo-base - Geographical base data

health - Data related to health

landuse - Statistical and geographic data on land use

meta - Meta data about open datasets

structure - So-called "Strukturdaten"

traffic - Traffic load data

transport - Open Transport Data

tools

This is the place for tools and utilities, such as the Shapefile-to-GeoJSON converter which helps to automatize the conversion process from one format to another.

The idea of hosting data on github isn't new. Here are others doing similar things:

http://government.github.com/community/

KoelnAPI/data