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City of Vancouver Launches New Open Data Portal
Wednesday, August 21, 2019Company Profile | Follow Company
Vancouver, BC, August 21, 2019--(T-Net)--The City of Vancouver announced that it has launched its new open data portal making it easier than ever for users to access, search, visualize, build maps, charts and explore the more than 160 public datasets available at opendata.vancouver.ca, without ever having to leave the browser.
The open data platform also allows users to export data in different formats or to use advanced features such as the application programming interface (API).
Features of the new portal
The most popular datasets include business licences, locations of public art and drinking fountains, council voting records, employee remuneration and expenses, location and attributes of community gardens and food trees, council budget and expenses, and local area boundaries.
What's different from the old catalogue?
We split groups of datasets
Datasets are listed separately. For example, the old catalogue's Property Information Data Package breaks out block outlines, tie lines, parcel polygons, and so on.
We replaced XML with JSON
The few datasets offered in XML format are now available in JSON making them faster and easier to use.
We list DWG files differently
For datasets with DWG files for AutoCAD users, the files are listed on the dataset's export tab as an alternative export.
We limit shapefile exports
Shapefile exports are limited to 50,000 records at a time.
We offer geospatial data in two coordinate systems
The default is the WGS84 coordinate system of latitude and longitude (expressed in decimal degrees). The alternate is UTM Zone 10N, NAD83 (expressed in metres). If the original data were collected in a different coordinate system, some loss of accuracy is possible.
The City's Open Data website was launched in September 2009 following a council motion with 20 basic datasets available for download. Today's open data catalogue contains 167 datasets with new ones added and existing ones updated regularly.
In addition to Open Data, the City says it publicly posts a large amount of other detailed information on its website including:
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