December 5, 2011 at 23:47French portal Open Data (350 thousand databases)
France has joined the list of countries that declare the principle of transparency and publish government data under a free license.
The US, Canada and the United Kingdom have already launched state data portals, but France has managed to surpass all: the state portal Data.gouv.fr contains about 352,000 data sets in CSV and XLS formats: real estate, taxes, unemployment, quality of school education, traffic accident statistics, crime rates, ecology, epidemiology, election results and more. Data is collected from 90 government agencies and geo-referenced.
No need to say what value these files are for web developers. For example, in the United States, in a short time after the opening of such a portal, citizens developed about 250 applicationsand government agencies - about 1100 . Among the interesting ones are the national map of deaths in road accidents for 2001-2009 , statistics on late flights , comparison of cities for obesity , etc.
Information can also be used in reference, medical, educational, navigation and other applications.
The US, Canada and the United Kingdom have already launched state data portals, but France has managed to surpass all: the state portal Data.gouv.fr contains about 352,000 data sets in CSV and XLS formats: real estate, taxes, unemployment, quality of school education, traffic accident statistics, crime rates, ecology, epidemiology, election results and more. Data is collected from 90 government agencies and geo-referenced.
No need to say what value these files are for web developers. For example, in the United States, in a short time after the opening of such a portal, citizens developed about 250 applicationsand government agencies - about 1100 . Among the interesting ones are the national map of deaths in road accidents for 2001-2009 , statistics on late flights , comparison of cities for obesity , etc.
Information can also be used in reference, medical, educational, navigation and other applications.