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What local government datasets would you like to see made available?
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Along the lines of the Google PowerMeter http://www.google.org/powermeter concept ("If we can not measure it, we can not improve it." - Lord Kelvin), real-time or close to real-time data on Council services.
- council: spending breakdowns; FOI requests; DAs in processing & approved; web stats; customer requests; electricity usage
- waste & recycling: how much waste collected; recycling
- community services: child care numbers; meals on wheels delivered; number of people in facilities like seniors centres
- library services: how many books have been borrowed, how many people came through the door, how much data went up/down public internet
no doubt you have more ideas
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Flickr Commons and Ancestry, amongst others, has shown how popular historical records are. We can expand on that to digitise all sorts of local data held in local history collections in libraries and records departments, then make it available with an open license. I'm thinking of things like old photos, maps, oral histories, old rate books, historical Council Minutes, street and suburb names, etc. Most public libraries have some sort of collection of newspaper articles or references covering local news and events. Much of this stuff is tied up local libraries, sometimes only available by appointment. It's expensive I know, but so is storing and recording all this stuff and what's the point if few people ever get to see it?
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Collection dates for waste and recycling ... a difficult dataset perhaps, as houses on the same street may have different collection days, requiring granularity at the property level ... but useful for many applications.
Bonus points for additional information on what is collected.
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XML or KML (or ?) data on car parks, bike parking, bike paths, parks, children's playgrounds, ovals, toilets
Two examples in the U.K. - Lichfield District Council http://www.lichfielddc.gov.uk/data and Sutton http://www.sutton.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=8651
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I would like to see events published as data sets rather than simply on a web page. Let's have them geotagged and reusable so we can aggregate data across local government areas and mix with community run events. We can plot them on a map and search for them by all sorts of criteria such as location, date, audience level, subject, etc.
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This is a big one for many local governments. There is data on DAs - recently submitted, recently approved, etc but often not in an open format (does a newspaper ad count as open?) But I want more... Average approval times, geocoded data, what else?
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How much of the rules and conditions around getting approval for a development application is stored in PDFs? I want to be able to search for a property and receive a custom set of clauses that apply to that property. If it's not on the waterfront I don't care about special provisions for waterfront properties. And I want that data to be open so that it can be aggregated across local authorities.
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Public Transport Networks/Timetables in GTFS under an open licence. Like ACTION in the ACT promised back in July 2009.
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In the UK councils quite often try to maintain one and sometimes publish it on their website - very useful for hyperlocal sites if in open data, I imagine.
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Crime data, updated every week. Street level resolution.
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