Helsinki Region Infoshare Services from open data

Älykästä ympäristötietoa - Smart environment information

31.10.2013 Project Manager Ville Meloni

Forum Virium Helsinki

Open Cities

Smart City Code4Europe

Helsinki Region Infoshare - Opening up public data

City Service Development Kit

Apps4Finland

•  Joint activity of Helsinki metropolitan area cities (population over 1 million people) to open data

•  Operated by City of Helsinki Urban Facts and Forum Virium Helsinki

•  2010-2012 pilot phase •  2013 in adoption phase •  2014 - business as usual •  Municipalities committing resources

to open data!

Helsinki Region Infoshare

Helsinki Region Infoshare www.hri.fi Open public data from Helsinki region for everyone to use without cost •  Currently over 1000 datasets •  Open data application showcase •  Give feedback & request new

data & discuss •  Instructions for public agencies on

how to open data •  Useful tips for developers and

other data users

•  Statistics and estimates o  Different urban phenomena e.g. living conditions,

economics and well-being, employment and transport o  Environmental and service statistics

•  Geospatial data o  Regional division boundaries,

electoral district divisions, buildings, maps

•  Other o  Public service points, decision making, budget, public

transportation timetables, snowplowing machine location, etc.

Open data themes of HRI

•  Historical maps and aerial photos •  Geographical data such as addresses and

various administrative boundaries •  Public decision making data (Open Ahjo) •  Issue reporting API to City of Helsinki

(CitySDK project) •  Detailed statistical data about public

services such as schools •  Health and wellbeing related data

Follow: www.facebook.com/helsinkiregioninfoshare and @HRInfoshare for open data updates

Example of 2013 data themes

Environment related data in HRI •  Environmental statistics (City of Helsinki Urban Facts, various) •  Environmental permits given (City of Helsinki Environment

Centre) •  Traffic noise areas (Helsinki metropolitan area environment

centres) •  Land usage plans for construction (Helsinki Region

Environmental Services Authority - HSY) •  Sustainable development urban infrastructure – Helsinki CO2

footprint, energyconsumption, etc. (Aalto-university) •  Solar energy potentials and geo energy potentials (City of Espoo)

Helsinki’s traffic noise areas

http://www.hri.fi/fi/data/helsingin-liikennemeluvyohykkeet/

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10200120229760738&set=o.102381085627&type=1&theater#

https://www.facebook.com/groups/fi.okfn/

Examples of open data usage and services

Traffic accidents in Helsinki 2000-2010

Data journalism

HSY - Rakennusmaavaranto SeutuRAMAVA

Education and

research

Aerial photos of Helsinki from 1940-, 1960-, 1970- ja 1980- -> Historical Helsinki http://www.historical-helsinki.net/

Visualizations

Helsinki Region Transport Journey planner API

ReittiGPS

Applications

www.blindsquare.com

mak.hsl.fi/

Issue reporting API

Citizen engagement ”Should it be fixed?”

h"p://metro.fi/fiksaus/

korjaakaupunki.fi

http://www.hri.fi/fi/sovellukset/helsinki-by-age-in-google-maps/

http://www.hri.fi/fi/sovellukset/sanom-at/

”The noise data set is a great example of open data which could be very valuable to common people. For example, families looking for a quiet neighborhood in Helsinki would probably want to check local traffic noise levels before buying a house.” -CloudnSci.fi

http://www.hri.fi/fi/sovellukset/tieliikenteen-melutasot-helsingissa/

More 3rd party applications in HRI applications showcase gallery www.hri.fi/fi/sovellukset

What next? •  Making open data as part of cities’ normal operations •  In Helsinki open data is included in the city strategy

program, IT-strategy and budgeting process •  Let’s show people all the unpublished data there is •  From manually published static data files to application

programming interfaces (API’s) and ”automatic data publishing”

•  Co-operation: across agencies, cities and state locally and internationally, with technical developers, companies, schools, research institutions, end users

http://www.govtech.com/data/All-NYC-Data-to-be-Open-by-2018.html (24.9.2013)

New York City targets to open all it’s public data by 2018

Available in English in November 2013 via www.hri.fi

Inspirational material for data owners including practical case examples of opening and utilizing data. www.hri.fi/2vuotta

THANK YOU! Ville Meloni

ville.meloni@forumvirium.fi Forum Virium Helsinki

www.hri.fi

http://www.hri.fi/en/about/contact-information/

@HRInfoshare www.facebook.com/helsinkiregioninfoshare www.slideshare.net/helsinkiregioninfoshare