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Bathymetric contour data for North America
I am looking for free Bathymetric contour data in shapefile format for depths between 0-200 meters for North America (including Canada, especially Vancouver, BC). I prefer contours at 10 meter increments, but will take whatever I can get.
I have…
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Is metadata about data from my clients my data or the clients?
I hope this is the right place to ask. I thought that a forum about open data would probably attract people who know about how open data is (or NOT is) :)
we are a company that (among other things) hosts a lot of data from different companies in the…
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Issues harvesting metadata from Data.gov
I'm trying to harvest data from the CKAN API of Data.gov, using Python code. Doing this however, I ran into problems. I use the following URL:
http://catalog.data.gov/api/3/action/package_search?rows=1000&start=0
And increment the 'start'…
Tom Brouwer
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Global tide data - is it out there?
I'm looking for a tidal range GIS layer. Anything global that shows either mean tidal range, maximum tidal range, or maximum tidal height. I have been trawling the web for tide related GIS layers and they don't seem to be available. If any one knows…
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Places to find credit risk data-sets
I am looking for places to get datasets regarding credit risk and risk analytics in financials services.
I have tried many places but was unable find what I am looking for. Can I get any pointer or link to find these?
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Smart Grid Smart City -- Customer trial data
I am looking for the Smart Grid Smart City (SGSC) customer trial data set. The data set was mentioned, and linked to, in this answer to this question.
I have made an account at the following site in an attempt to access the data, but I get a message…
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API for localized nutrition and food data
For a current project I am looking for an API (or 'offline' CSV like format) which contains names and nutrition (kilokalories, protein, vitamins, etc.) of food and ingredients.
What I found so far:
the food API of the USDA:…
Christian
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Municipality 2017 shapefile Europe
Where can i find the municipality 2017 shapefile of Luxembourg or does someone know a site where I can download shapefiles of updated municipalities in Europe?
Astronautabdi
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Is there any data on actual average USPS delivery times
I'm looking for data on the average delivery times between points for the US Postal Service. I've found maps on their site with scheduled delivery times but I'm wondering if anyone has data on actual deliveries?
WebUserLearner
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SPARQL federation and attribution licenses?
Many public datasets are published under licenses that require attribution, such as CC-BY. If I have a public SPARQL endpoint, and allow federated queries to access data from such endpoint, that means that a query result can contain data that is…
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Did terabytes of data get removed from open.whitehouse.gov in January or February 2017?
I received an email on 2017-02-27 promoting the March For Science.
One of the arguments was as follows:
It appears that the Trump administration has removed terabytes of data from open.whitehouse.gov http://open.whitehouse.gov/ replacing it with…
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API or datasets for age & gender distributions of the world
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Data: I am looking for an API oder dataset where I can find age distribution (age groups: percentage of an age group according to the population) and gender distributions for each country of the world. Something like this:
Zensus…
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How to get "historical" shapefile (road, waterways, railways, etc.) of India?
I am interested in looking at future trends in linear developmental activities in India and how they may impact the integrity of wildlife corridors. Basically, I need to do trend analysis over the past 20 years (from 1995) and predict the kind of…
Adrian Lyngdoh
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Are there anonymized medical records publicly available for research?
I realize this is kind of a long shot, but I figured I would ask - I'm try to do large scale analysis of medical data for research purposes, but it's exceedingly difficult to get access to medical records in any large quantity. Is there data…
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How do US agencies connect their APIs to Data.gov's registration system?
Data.gov contains over 190,000 data sets, but only a select few are integrated into Data.gov's API key registration system. What is the process to integrate an existing API with data.gov as an API gateway and what are the benefits?
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