Can today’s announcement of data.gc.ca trigger some thinking & action on the part of our local municipalities to follow in the footsteps of other Canadian cities — and now Federal Gov’t — in becoming more open with our data??
Part 1: Escape from PDF It’s been almost a month since we reached out to Milton Transit (MT) with hopes of getting hold of their “raw” transit data. While we got a reply promising an eventual response, we can’t make progress on the Transit Project unless we have data to work with. So, we sprung [...]
A few days ago our OpenHalton.ca server went down due to a bad Hard Drive and we lost the site and most of the data. Unfortunately it served as another lesson on value of backing up your data, and I definitely learned it again this time…. yes, again…. I’ve recovered all of the posts, but [...]
Things have been quite busy with open data in the last few months. Some of Open Halton team members Mark, Aaron, and myself have been head down working on Emitter.ca (Mark’s post on it here), and we were even featured in the front page of Oakville Beaver. Woo hoo! We are still getting some feeback [...]
We have been busy at Open Halton plugging away on some projects. Today I’m happy to announce the recent launch of one called Emitter. Some Background Recently my team at RedBit Development and myself were part of a team to help make pollution data made available by Environment Canada easily searchable by citizens concerned with [...]
Open Data is about transforming government data into an open platform. Open Halton is about transforming Halton with open data. Silicon Halton is about transforming Halton with a network of high tech entrepreneurs and leaders. The way I see it all 3 can help and benefit from one another. Open Data =Open Halton=Silicon Halton. What [...]
Taking open data in Halton from a vision to reality: how we plan on getting a few passionate citizens, developers & IT professionals behind this worthy cause.
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