Open regions and cities data on the European Data Portal
Publication Date/Time
2019-08-07T17:15:00+00:00
Country
Europe
Discover open regions and cities data and its applications on the
European Data Portal
OPEN REGIONS AND CITIES DATA

The European Data Portal [https://www.europeandataportal.eu/] (EDP) is
an initiative by the European Commission that aims to increase the
impact of open data by making data easy to find and re-use for
everyone. The portal harvests metadata from EU Member States and
enables users to discover the data they need by making its metadata
searchable in all the EU supported languages. In addition to making
the data searchable, the EDP also provides thirteen data catalogues to
aid users in finding the data they need, one of which is regions and
cities [/data/#/datasets?categories=regi&page=1&locale=en]. These
datasets include, for instance, land registries, state maps, and the
location of post offices.

The EDP offers 55,750 datasets related to regions and cities. For
example:

 	* "Visit rate of tourist destinations
[/data/#/datasets/https-data-gov-cz-zdroj-datove-sady-kuolomouc-671456014]"
that states how many tourists are visiting the Olomouc region in the
Czech Republic from the Czech National Open Data Portal
[https://data.gov.cz/english/].
 	* "Constituencies Stavanger municipality
[/data/#/datasets/https-data-norge-no-node-1739]", which shows the
current constituency boundaries in Stavanger, Norway, from
data.norge.no [https://data.norge.no/nlod/en].
 	* "Population by municipality - Population per municipality
[/data/#/datasets/population-par-commune-population-per-municipality]"
that lists the respective number of adults and minors by sex for each
municipality from the Portail Open Data [https://data.public.lu/en/]
in Luxembourg.

These datasets are accessible on the EDP and were harvested from the
national open data portals across Europe.

OPEN DATA USES CASES IN REGIONS AND CITIES

The EDP has forty-four examples of uses cases that use open data on
regions and cities. For example, the platform _Golemio
[/sites/default/files/use-cases/prague_-_golemio.pdf] _and _Helsinki
Region Infoshare_
[/sites/default/files/use-cases/finland_-_helsinki_regional_infoshare.pdf].

_Golemio _is a platform from the Czech Republic that is developed and
maintained by Operátor ICT. The platform shares datasets from Oper
[https://operatorict.cz/en/]átor ICT [https://operatorict.cz/en/]
that can help a person living or visiting Prague infinding parking
spaces or accessing information about public transportation. The
platform also serves as a space for experts to find datasets that they
can analyse and process to gain additional insights or create
websites, applications or prediction models for the city.

_Helsinki Region Infoshare_ is an open data service that helps people
find urban data in Helsinki and in the neighbouring cities Espoo,
Vantaa and Kauniainen. The service provides open data catalogues with
informative articles on data use and events in Finland, and offers
support on how to exploit, share and re-use open data. Several
stakeholders in Helsinki are utilising their database to organise and
promote public events in Helsinki and to deliver urban data to provide
value for the region.

For more information about _Golemio _and _Helsinki Region Infoshare_
listen to the EDP's webinar "Open data in Smart Cities
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWGfYMWw8oc&list=PLz7C9CUkkWwzOTopCvX319OmhfyfVIxcU]"
or read our feature highlight on the webinar
[/en/highlights/outcome-edps-webinar-open-data-smart-cities].

For more examples on open data, look at the EDP's datasets
[/data/#/datasets?page=1&locale=en] and use cases
[/en/using-data/use-cases] from different European countries. If you
know of any open data use cases, share them with us via mail
[/en/feedback/form?type=4], and follow us on Twitter
[https://twitter.com/EU_DataPortal], Facebook
[http://www.facebook.com/EuropeanDataPortal]or LinkedIn
[https://www.linkedin.com/company/european-data-portal/]to stay up to
date!
