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Re:Google Dataset Search by wiredfool on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @01:19PM (#17920028)
https://data.gov.ie —- this is a repository of a bunch of the open data produced in the Irish public sector.

(Disclosure, I work on this)

Re:Google Dataset Search by fnord123 on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @04:35PM (#17921667)
Playing around, a lot of countries use this url scheme:

https://data.gov.be

http://data.gov.ro/

https://www.dati.gov.it/ (note, Italy redirects data. to dati.)

https://data.gov.pl/

https://data.gov.za/ (South Africa's has a cert problem)

https://data.gov.in

https://data.gov.au/

https://datos.gob.mx/

Re:Google Dataset Search by mnx on Thursday September 06, 2018 @04:41AM (#17924773)
although data.gov.pl exists, and even presents a valid cert, it has no content. The place with the data is:

https://danepubliczne.gov.pl/en/#

(website is being terribly slow for me right now)

Re:Google Dataset Search by nonnon on Thursday September 06, 2018 @03:18AM (#17924457)
Re:Google Dataset Search by Moghammed on Thursday September 06, 2018 @05:51AM (#17925026)
Re:Google Dataset Search by snaily on Thursday September 06, 2018 @01:21AM (#17924051)
Re:Google Dataset Search by vquemener on Thursday September 06, 2018 @02:55AM (#17924374)
Re:Google Dataset Search by divbyzer0 on Thursday September 06, 2018 @10:17AM (#17926446)
Re:Google Dataset Search by handelaar on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @04:15PM (#17921532)
I'm a particular fan of the boundary "dataset" you have that's a low-resolution TIFF file.

(edit to add something more productive: the site is littered to the tune of at least 25% and maybe even a third with junk "data", all obviously added to get the number of records as high as possible, with no regard to whether that data is either useful to anybody, is machine-readable in any way at all, or even -- in the example above -- even qualifies as "data". Data.gov.ie would be moderately interesting if all the shit in it was removed.)

Re:Google Dataset Search by wiredfool on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @05:04PM (#17921906)
The quality of the datasets varies greatly depending on the source. Some work well, some, less so. There are data sources that are undergoing active development to harvest them more accurately. None of them were added to pump up the numbers.

The biggest numbers bump recently was ca 1600 Met Eireann rainfall records datasets from all around the country, some of them daily rainfall dating back 60 years. (Spoiler, there’s a lot of rain)

This is specifically a catalog of data sets, it doesn’t host the data except for previews, and even doing that is pretty complicated in all its glory.

Re:Google Dataset Search by handelaar on Friday September 07, 2018 @04:44PM (#17937485)
> None of them were added to pump up the numbers.

Then kindly explain these

https://data.gov.ie/advanced_search?query=&texttype=anywhere...

Or these

https://data.gov.ie/advanced_search?query=&texttype=anywhere...

(I'd show only the PDF-only ones but your search doesn't work.)

Oh and look two of these also contain no machine-readable data whatsoever

https://data.gov.ie/advanced_search?query=&texttype=anywhere...

Re:Google Dataset Search by eruci on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @04:33PM (#17921657)
Are you going to release any street address datasets at some point?
Re:Google Dataset Search by wiredfool on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @05:07PM (#17921932)
I believe that the eircode dataset is one of the most highly requested sources, but it’s a private for profit database.

If you are aware of such a dataset that a public body is hosting, then it would certainly be something to include. Convincing (and helping) the public bodies to publish their data is still a big task.

Re:Google Dataset Search by disgruntledphd2 on Thursday September 06, 2018 @03:56AM (#17924604)
I believe that An Post built a similar system many moons ago, and they should presumably be more amenable to open-sourcing.

The handling of the whole Eircode thing makes my blood boil, to be honest.