Traditional media is going through a horrible phase after over a century of wealth and strong position in our society. Media companies all over the world are struggling to survive, after failing to understand how quickly and powerfully the whole media landscape is changing. The disruption is of course…
At CitySDK @ WaagOpenSpace, developers of the API talk about the API and what they plan to do with it. This is my summary of the evening. Job Spierings: CitySDK introduction Job Spierings started the introduction by reiterating that open data for the CitySDK is important for transparency; releasing social and…
City of Helsinki has published its issue reporting API and thus joined cities utilizing the Open311 standard. The City of Helsinki is the second city in Europe to enable issue reporting API for external services, such as mobile and internet apps and web-services. First service to connect to the feedback…
In Amsterdam, we are currently working to enable smarter information services for tourists by implementing CitySDK. We are also looking at the possibilities of dynamic data services that might, while not yet available, greatly impact the opportunities regarding smarter information services. This means that we look further than the…
Helsinki attracted over 20 million visits last year of which a growing number by cruise ships (2012: 368.000 visitors). Compared to the size of the city – about 600 000 inhabitants – Helsinki seems to succeed in attracting more and more visitors. Russia is still the biggest source country…
The article on Civic Innovations points out the importance of common standards. Data standardization across cities is a critical milestones that must be realized to advance the open data movement, to fully realize all of the potential benefits of openly publishing government data. More people are starting to realize the importance…
In Finland, Sanoma Media Company and City of Helsinki together with Forum Virium Helsinki are piloting a new issue-reporting channel that enables citizens to give feedback on the faults they have observed in the public environments. Through Sanoma’s “Metro Fix my street” web service citizens can send feedback, for…
Last week, Waag Society and it’s partners released Arts Holland. This platform is the primary resource for Linked Open Data on tourism and culture in the Netherlands and will play a role in the tourism (replication) pilot of CitySDK. The platform offers Linked Open Data to be used within CitySDK. Linked…
For PICNIC 2012, Laurens Schuurkamp and Bert Spaan (Waag Society) developed an Open Data visualization installation. Subsequently, Laurens gave a seminar on Open Data Visualization on the Avans Hogeschool in Den Bosch. Laurens: “Our goal was to draw the city from scratch with the available Open Data, to see if…
The holy grail in the world of route planners is a dynamic, personal, multi-modal route planner. A planner that can direct you at any moment and any place to the best or easiest route available. A planner that keeps your personal preferences in mind and can choose between all possible…