-
·
Parking map
Looking for somewhere to park? Check out Streets Alive Yarra’s parking map. Here are some screenshots, showing how different types of parking restrictions are shown with different colours, applicable for a typical weekday during business hours: The map is based on Google Streetview, which may be out of date, so if you have any questions…
-
·
Open Government council trees
Following on from our previous articles on: Open Government, and Open Government – CEO salary, and Open Government – councillor briefings; we suggest that a commitment to Open Government should also including publishing data in a form that can help residents and ratepayers to give feedback on priorities for future investment. For example, consider the…
-
·
Smart City
The City of Yarra has adopted a Smart City vision and roadmap: Our view In particular, we’re impressed with the Smart Movement Sensors project, where council has obtained a library of different sensors that can be rapidly deployed in a range of locations. This is a great example of agile, evidence based service delivery. We…
-
·
Open Data Policy
The City of Yarra adopted an Open Data Policy on the 22nd May 2018: Oddly, four years later, the policy is not available for download on the public transparency page nor on the strategies, policies and plans page: Streets Alive Yarra obtained a copy from council: Overlap with Public Transparency Policy The Open Data Policy…
-
·
Open Data at the City of Ipswich
Our last journal article looked at Open Data from the City of Yarra. In this article, we review Open Data from the City of Ipswich. Their first data went live on 1st July 2020. Transparency is at the heart of good governance and decision-making, and the Open Ipswich Transparency and Integrity Hub shows our commitment…
