Dublinked Planning Workshop

Local Authority Perspective

Pauline Riordan

Planner, Dublin City Council08/12/11

Opening up public data

Government Data: data and

information produced or commissioned

by government or government

controlled entities.*

Not sensitive or private information but

core public data on Planning,

Transport, Water, Environment,

Community facilities etc

~150 datasets

•OSI maps

•NTA transport nodes, bus data 2012

*OpenKnowledgeFoundation(OKF)http://opengovernmentdata.org/what/

What we want?

•Use data in different ways

•Better city services & systems

•Build innovation & entrepreneurship

•Dublin region as a test bed for new products, services and apps

‘Prototyped in Dublin’

46 countriesIreland, US, UK, Germany, Poland, France, Spain, Italy, NL

249 citiesIrish, Bialystok, Kensington

2781 visits first month

Development Plan (Seveso Sites, Zoning, ACAs, Amenties)* >500

Traffic Volumes (Counts, Cameras) >300

Parking (Bays, Meters, Zones & Tarrifs) >200

Planning Apps *polygons >200

Street Furniture (Lighting, Street licences, litter bin survey*) >200

Mapping (3-D Building Polygons & Raster map) * ~170

Noise maps * ~130

Cycle Network * ~100

Community facilities * ~100

Winter Salting Routes (FCC) ~100

Rainfall monitoring ~90

Train Stations (FCC) ~70

River Catchments & Drainage * ~65

Fire & Ambulance Call outs ~60

*contain co-ordinates or spatial maps

Most viewed

Planning

Drainage

Water flow (floods)

Water & air quality

Litter

Dublin Bus GPS

Tourism

Property

Data Requests

How we respond

Review

Simplify process

Standardise output

regionally

Feedback

Themed Workshops

Prioritise next release

New Data

Sample sets to

updated/live data

?

How we collect data

Environment Planning Water Transport

Hard Copy Digitised

Text Spatial

Static Dynamic

Silos Pool resources & share results

Planning application data

Can we share information to make application process more

efficient?

Building

Control

Requests: Daily feeds, Summary stats, Point co-ordinates

Commencement notices, ABP/DOE information

Enforcement Appeals

Strategic planning data

How do we integrate data to build an evidence base for

decision making and monitoring?

Development

Plan/ Local

Area Plans

Requests: Key dates, derelict buildings

Non statutory

reports and

studies

Consultation

Councillors and

public

Heritage data

Built Natural

Can we layer information to see the big picture?

Requests: Conservation/Heritage sites

Environmental Monitoring

How can we use data to speed up

SEA/AA?

Can we use data for ongoing

monitoring? Who updates?

Consultation data

How can we use this information to communicate better and

to measure progress?

Raw data 1000 online submissions

Requests: Key dates for news feeds, councillor info

Creative Engagement

Tourism Ireland facebook app

Engage playfully with children

& young people

Information layers:

•Tourism

•Heritage

•Public Facilities,

•Demographic

•Transport

•Weather

•MapsSim City Farmville

Visualisation

via@sethsblog

The Power of Visualisation:"Data is not useful until it becomes

information" ow.ly/726i8 #opendata #dublinked

Connected city

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Information layers;

Traffic sensors, way finding, buildings, air quality, noise, cycling, road works, complaints…

Themed workshop

DevPlanLAP

Non statutory

Consultation

ApplicationsBuilding Control

EnforcementAppeals

SEA /AAMonitoring

ConservationGreen

Infrastructure

All of the above

Strategic

Planning

Planning

Applications

Environment &

HeritageGeneral