What data should we ask local councils for?
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Local councils are also another important data source. GovHack Wellington team is working directly with WCC to make their data available, but what else do people want?
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Jo Booth Wed 13 May 2015 10:56PM
The local and regional council relatime public transport feeds and traffic data
ref: https://twitter.com/metlinkwgtn/status/583466565313495040
P Hughes Fri 15 May 2015 2:47AM
Non-private Rating Valuation data, preferably aggregated nationally. there are huge benefits to be gained nationally and they need to be unlocked urgently. It is all public data.
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David Laing Fri 15 May 2015 2:51AM
How about air quality data? I think that this is collected by the regional councils. Is it aggregated by another agency nationally?
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Shaun McGirr Fri 15 May 2015 5:15AM
Awesome, keep 'em coming!
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Shaun McGirr Fri 15 May 2015 5:28AM
Thanks Peter. Am I correct in thinking that currently QV are the only ones aggregating the property data nationally?
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David Laing Fri 15 May 2015 9:20AM
There is an issue with QV - they appear to be intending to turn the data into a saleable asset, although it is, as Joe says, public data.
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Nadia Webster Sun 17 May 2015 11:46PM
To see what data others have requested from government and the responses given see: https://data.govt.nz/requests
Property and rating valuation data has been sought for a long time: https://data.govt.nz/datasetrequest/show/3
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Nadia Webster Sun 17 May 2015 11:48PM
There is a lot of local council data here: http://www.localcouncils.govt.nz/
Aaron Schiff · Wed 13 May 2015 7:48PM
Rating valuation data by property