[OSM-talk-be] decreet openbaarheid van bestuur / decreet hergebruik van overheidsinformatie

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:54:54PM +0100, Ben Abelshausen wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> We recieved this email on the okfn-be list from Pieter:
> 
> 
> > Noël Van Herreweghe of Corvé/Bestuurzaken Flemish government published a
> > list of datasets that should be open data according "decreet openbaarheid
> > van bestuur / decreet hergebruik van overheidsinformatie" and the new
> > policy at the Flemish Government that databases should be open by default,
> > not by exception.
> >
> > If you cannot access a certain dataset in this list:
> > http://demo.thedatatank.com/flanders/datasets
> > you should send an email to the responsible organisation. If the
> > organisation declines you the access to this we can start a
> > "beroepsprocedure". In all other cases we will have a bunch of new open
> > data :)
> >
> > I already did this for Codex Vlaanderen. They first reacted a bit slow and
> > asked me question about how I wanted the data. When I got it, I've put it
> > on Github. Right now they are moving towards a more professional way of
> > opening up their data. All because just one question.
> >
> > Conclusion: we need your help! Send a couple of emails, open Flanders :)
> 
> 
> This is also relevant here, the data in this list should be available as
> open-data (same licence as CRAB) and there is a lot of geo-data. A few
> highlights from that list:
> 
> - GRB
> - MRB Wegen
> - De Lijn routeplanner
> - ...

At least GRB is currently not available, and I think that would be
really useful to have.  MRB doesn't exist yet.

But basicly anything mentioned on download.agiv.be should be made
freely available, unless they have some good reason not to?


Kurt