Crash Course to Open Data and APIs

Jaakko RajaniemiJuha Yrjölä

City of Helsinki

What is Open Data?

● Availability and Free Access

● Reuse and Redistribution

● For Everybody, All Purposes and Free of Charge

Why open data?

•Efficiency

•Transparency

•New cool and useful apps for citizens!

The Classification of Open Data

★ Open license

★★ Machine readable

★★★ Non-proprietary format

★★★★ Open standards

★★★★★ Linked Data \o/

Helsinki Region Transport

● Most popular open data source● API, Kalkati XML dump and GTFS● http://developer.reittiopas.fi/pages/en/home.php● Check also http://dev.hsl.fi/

National Land Survey

Place names,Roads, Laser scanning data, Elevation data, ...

See more:

www.maanmittauslaitos.fi/en/opendata

Municipal Division in Finland

Topographic database Topographic map raster Basic map raster

Aerial and orto photos

Finnish Meteorological Institute

● Weather observation 400 locations● Weather forecasts● Street condition 375 locations● Rain and radar lightning data ● Time series

● https://github.com/fmidev/● http://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/open-data-manual● Open Geospatial Consortium

http://ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/avoin-data-avattavat-aineistothttp://ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/avoin-data-havaintoanimaattori

Where to find data?

Helsinki Region Infoshare

dev.hel.fi

#heldev

Code for Europe

● Motivation: Current IT service development practices not perfect; introduce new ideas and technologies from outside

● Who: European Union and participating cities

● Method: Independent Fellows hired for a limited period to develop services

● 2014 Fellowship coming up

Real-time Snowplow Location API

github.com/codeforeurope/aura/wiki/API

Helsinki From Above 1942-2012

● Open Datasets used:○ aerial photography from five decades building

database○ address database○ district boundaries○ OpenStreetMap

● Aerial photos converted into an image pyramid and imported into Geoserver, then served over WMS API

● HTML5 application to access it: dev.hel.fi/ilmakuvat/ (Fork me on GitHub)

Service Map API

● 8,000 points of interest● 800 services● REST API with more than 200000 hits per month● http://www.hel.fi/palvelukarttaws/rest/ver2_en.html

Service Map API demo

http://dev.hel.fi/open311-test/servicemapdemo.html

Issue reporting API / Palauterajapinta

● First read-write API in Finland!

● Based on Open311 (also known as GeoReport v2)

○ http://open311.org/

● http://dev.hel.fi/apis/issuereporting

● Used in more than 30 cities in US and now coming to Europe

CitySDK - Common interfaces between cities

Issue reporting aka Open311 API developed in other cities

http://www.citysdk.eu/developers/

Issue reporting API functionalities

1. Query service request types○ defines request types and extra attributes

2. Submit service request○ description, image, location, contact

information

3. Query individual service request○ status and other service request details

4. Query services requests○ based on time and location

Issue Reporting demoService request types:

https://asiointi.hel.fi/palautews/rest/v1/services.json?locale=fi_FI

Last services requests:

https://asiointi.hel.fi/palautews/rest/v1/requests.json

Individual service request:

https://asiointi.hel.fi/palautews/rest/v1/requests/2278m9r1a1f50dhb1mug.json?extensions=true

More queries: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12eU3RVVTnEfHw1YsV48Li1E6ZGz-WmXoY70T3eIdA9w/edit?usp=sharing

Demos

http://dev.hel.fi/open311-test/pinpoint.html

http://dev.hel.fi/open311-test/servicemap.html

Python Three

Three is simple open source Open311 client

from three import Three

>>t = Three('https://pate.affecto.com/restWAR/open311/v1', api_key='API_KEY_HERE')

>>resp = t.post('202', name='Jaakko Rajaniemi', lat='60.168321', long='24.952397', description='Traffic sign is broken.',email='jaakko.rajaniemi@hel.fi', media=open('traffic_sign.jpg', 'rb'))

GeoReporterOpen source mobile application for Open311 reporting● https://github.com/City-of-Bloomington/open311-mobile/

● https://github.com/City-of-Bloomington/open311-android

Android: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/georeporter/id487304759?mt=8

iPhone: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.in.bloomington.georeporter&hl=fi

OpenAhjo Decision Data API

● Access to the enriched decision-making data of City of Helsinki

● Built on top of document and decision management system Ahjo

● REST API with geospatial and full-text search capabilities

● Autogenerated API documentation: dev.hel.fi/openahjo/doc/

● HTML5 application for browsing the data: dev.hel.fi/openahjo/

OpenAhjo Under the Hood

Backend● Python● Django application● Tastypie REST API● PostgreSQL database with PostGIS● Solr search engine with Finnish stemming

Frontend● CoffeeScript● Backbone● Leaflet JS map library

Thank you!

Jaakko Rajaniemi● jaakko.rajaniemi@hel.fi

● +358 40 5165931

● @jaakko

Juha Yrjölä● juha.yrjola@forumvirium.fi