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.
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