Where are we at with Open Data and the key public authorities that hold environmental data ?

FOI request covers DAFM, OSI, EPA and Coillte

There was no correspondence between Open Data Unit and Coillte

Response is in two large pdfs, so post covers main themes and some sample Open Data requests

FOI request: Any correspondence between the Open Data Unit and the following Departments / Agencies in relation to the implementation, use and enforcement of the Open Data Directive;


-Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
-OSi / Tailte Éireann
-EPA
-Coillte

Notes

Dept of Finance has performed a data audit for the purposes of the Open Data Directive. Email from Dept suggests that EPA and Housing performed a similar audit

Mapping farm sizes, shp file request

LEAP and Open Data

DAFM were drafting an Open Data publication plan

OSI: High Value Datasets (HVD), higher resolution data, timing of data release and potential distortion of competition

DAFM Forest Service open data request for forestry licensing documents

EPA: High Value Datasets shall be machine readable via API

DAFM Forest Service open data requests and redactions of personal information

EPA – ‘open by design and by default’

June 2024 is the deadline for High Value Datasets (currently EPA’s LEAP Online is non compliant as there’s no API or other facility to download records other than pdf by pdf, licence by licence)

EPA 30-day lag on posting documents to LEAP Online – will this approach be complaint with the Open Data Directive after June 2024

RTK request for LEAP data in an open data format

EPA: What format is required for bulk downloads? ie. JSON, CSV etc. What are EPA required to provide in terms of sub-records? Are all new EPA applications required to be in an Open Data format?

Note: Pages 47-68 of the pdf covers a number of issues on EPAs LEAP Online system

EPA – impact of Open Data on EPA’s budget, resources or time

DAFM Forest Service – Open data and Form 1(a), (b) and (c)

Open data request, notice of planting, etc

Marine open data request

Fingal CoCo noise monitoring data

Licensed Veterinary contacts

Agricultural machinery / tractors registered in Ireland

Townland maps

SAC Mapping

Harvesting datasets to Open Data portal

GSI – APIs and Groundwater data

Open source mapping data

Road maps

Townland and counties

EPAs Licensed Peat Extraction dataset

EPA mapping

Access issues with data.gov.ie

DAFM Forestry: documents vs datasets clarification

RTK Open Data Request for EPA licencing and enforcement data

DAFM Forest Service: Personal data, extracts from existing documents, new open data unit in DAFM

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