期刊名称：URISA Journal - Urban and Regional Information Systems Association
印刷版ISSN：1045-8077
出版年度：2017
卷号：28
出版社：Urban and Regional Information Systems
摘要：Open data have become a symbol of government accountability and transparency, with data inventories growingrapidly in recent years. The open data phenomenon has been examined through communication, political, and legal lenses,but the geographic perspective, which is reflected in the amount of spatial content in the catalogs, has yet to be quantified andmonitored. Analyzing the availability and accessibility of geographic information in municipal open data catalogs in Canadais an important prerequisite to understanding the potential for open data to inform decision making in the public and privatesectors. Building on a previous survey completed in 2012, this paper investigates the status and trends of geographic informationin Canadian open data catalogs by collecting an inventory of datasets and quantifying its growth. Municipal open data catalogsacross Canada were indexed according to the type of their geospatial content. The growth of open data, and more specificallygeospatial content, offers the public an opportunity to know, access, and engage with government infrastructure and services.
