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The 2011-2012 Garbage Collection Calendar iCal files are ready for download! As my contribution to 2010′s Open Data Ottawa Hackfest, I converted the City of Ottawa’s Garbage Collection Calendar into a open format (iCalendar) so that the schedule could be used for purposes like being imported into your favourite calendaring application such as MS Outlook, [...]
OC Transpo is in the news again today. Ottawa’s mainstream media has picked up the story about the pilot of the OC Transpo GPS data feed being pulled offline in January. It seems that a chance for the transit service to make a profit from mobile applications is taking precedence over the availability of open [...]
The Ottawa Open Data Application Contest, Apps4Ottawa, moved into its voting phase yesterday. There are 100 applications created by the community using data from the city’s open data catalogue, or by scraping data from the city website. From now until January 28th, please go to the Apps4Ottawa site to vote for your favourite applications. [...]
I had an idea this morning that may help discourage drinking and driving this holiday season. Having worked as DJ for many years, I’ve been asked all too often by people for the phone number of a local taxi service. Most people don’t have one stored in their phone. With the popularity of smart phones [...]
I was walking by the National Arts Centre with a friend at lunch today, and noticed that there’s a new (or at least I’d never noticed it before) addition to the tribute to Canadian Jazz pianist Oscar Peterson. Above the statue of Oscar at the piano are two speakers quietly playing his music onto Elgin [...]
The City of Ottawa has announced that election results will be provided in an open format through their Open Data Catalogue on voting day, October 25th, 2010. The results will be made available starting at just after 8pm, when the polls close, and will be updated every 10 minutes. This is great news for advocates [...]
The open data community in Ottawa has a reason to celebrate this morning. Ottawa City Council has given the green light to the release of municipal datasets in open formats, with the launch of their data catalogue, officially still in beta at www.ottawa.ca/opendata. The terms of use for these datasets is for “world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive [...]
The following e-mail was sent to councillors Bob Monette, Rainer Bloess and Rob Jellett, who represent the east end of the City of Ottawa, in which I live. I encourage you all to write your councillors in support of Open Data. – Councillor, As a resident of Ottawa’s East End, and as a software developer, [...]
Thank to you those who have sent me words of encouragement with regards to the Ottawa Garbage Collection iCalendar Project. I decided to change the way the calendars are produced. Instead of having a calendar for each zone (4 zones in total) containing bilingual data, the iCalendar files now produce separate files for each day [...]
Open Data April 24th is the Ottawa Open Data Hackfest. Their website describes Open Data as: It’s about unrestricted access to the same public data already sitting in city hall in a format easy for Internet applications to consume. We’re talking about easy access to bus schedules, restaurant inspection reports, childcare locations, crime stats, special [...]