FW: City of Vancouver's Open Data site: new and improved datasets

[Low, Linda]

Hi,

 

We have added/improved/updated the following datasets on the Open Data catalog

 

1.       Goad’s Fire Insurance Map 1912 (georectified) (http://data.vancouver.ca/datacatalogue/goadsFireInsuranceMap1912.htm)

Added digitized Goad’s fire insurance maps that show the location, building materials and footprint of buildings; the original water line where it differs from the 1912 shoreline; some proposed developments; electoral wards; legal land descriptions; lot sizes; street and lane widths; and old street names that had been recently changed.  Georectification was performed in December 2014 and imagery files are available in ECW and TIFF formats.

 

See this City of Vancouver Archives blog post for more details: http://www.vancouverarchives.ca/2015/05/21/1912-historical-layer-now-available-in-vanmap/

 

FYI – There is also a #HeritageReboot launch event this Saturday (May 23^rd : “a fun, hands-on free public event that combines modern technology with heritage conversation” at Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver, BC 

Details: http://www.vancouverarchives.ca/2015/05/12/save-the-date-heritagereboot-may-23/

 

2.       Heritage property data set (http://data.vancouver.ca/datacatalogue/heritageProperty.htm)

Updated data with more attributes, data descriptions and data formats

 

3.       Council Expenses data set (http://data.vancouver.ca/datacatalogue/councilExpenses.htm)

Updated data set with 2015 Quarter 1 data

 

4.       Crime data set (http://data.vancouver.ca/datacatalogue/crime-data.htm)

Updated data set with data from July to December 2014

 

5.       Business Licence data set (http://data.vancouver.ca/datacatalogue/businessLicence.htm)

Added JSON format

 

From the Open Data Team