{"id":454,"date":"2011-09-16T22:17:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T20:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lviz.org\/?p=454"},"modified":"2011-09-16T22:17:09","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T20:17:09","slug":"open-data-for-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lviz.org\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"Open Data for Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of Open Data is not new and scientists have promoted free exchange of data for a long time. However, the term Open Data refers to the recent trend in informatics and geospatial sciences to provide geographic data free to use. Pioneers were particularly in the UK, US and Canada, where it has traditionally been claim that government geodata should be free. Vancouver for example launched a rather decent <a title=\"Vancouver Open Data Catalogue\" href=\"http:\/\/data.vancouver.ca\/datacatalogue\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Open Data website<\/a>. This initiative created many possibilities for various new location based apps such as the very successful <a title=\"Vantrash\" href=\"http:\/\/eaves.ca\/2011\/03\/07\/launching-an-open-data-business-recollect-net-vantrash-2-0\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vantrash <\/a>that gives inhabitants of Vancouver the current schedule for recycling and garbage pick-up.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Berlin as first major German city has set up a website with government Open Data under <a title=\"Berlin Open Data\" href=\"http:\/\/daten.berlin.de\/datensaetze\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/daten.berlin.de\/datensaetze<\/a> and it is to hope that this will trigger similarly successful geospatial applications.<\/p>\n<div class=\"simple_likebuttons_container_small\">\r\n      <div class=\"simple_likebuttons_facebook\">\r\n        <div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n        <script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n          var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n          if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\r\n          js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n          js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n          fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n        }(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n        <div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"http:\/\/lviz.org\/?p=454\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"button_count\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-width=\"90\"><\/div>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    \r\n      <div class=\"simple_likebuttons_twitter simple_likebuttons_twitter_s\">\r\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-url=\"http:\/\/lviz.org\/?p=454\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    \r\n      <div class=\"simple_likebuttons_googleplus\">\r\n        <g:plusone size=\"medium\" count=\"false\" href=\"http:\/\/lviz.org\/?p=454\"><\/g:plusone>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    \r\n      <div class=\"simple_likebuttons_linkedin simple_likebuttons_linkedin_s\">\r\n        <script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/lviz.org\/?p=454\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    \r\n      <div class=\"simple_likebuttons_xing simple_likebuttons_xing_s\">\r\n        <script data-url=\"http:\/\/lviz.org\/?p=454\" data-lang=\"de\" data-counter=\"right\" type=\"XING\/Share\"><\/script>\r\n        <script>\r\n          ;(function(d, s) {\r\n            var x = d.createElement(s),\r\n              s = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n            x.src ='https:\/\/www.xing-share.com\/js\/external\/share.js';\r\n            s.parentNode.insertBefore(x, s);\r\n          })(document, 'script');\r\n        <\/script>\r\n      <\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of Open Data is not new and scientists have promoted free exchange of data for a long time. 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