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Belgium / 2013 27% open

Belgium is ranked #56 in the 2013 Index

Rank Dataset Breakdown Location (URL) Format Info Prev. Score
36 Government Budget
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http://www.begroting.be/portal... n/a n/a 45%
36 Government Budget
URL: http://www.begroting.be/portal/page/portal/INTERNET_pagegroup/Begroting%20Online%202013/Middelenbegroting%202013%20aangepast.pdf


Portal provides links to PDFs containing all of the numbers.


36 Transport Timetables
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n/a n/a n/a 35%
36 Transport Timetables


National rail company (NMBS/ SNCB) has not made access to the data available and has threatened to sue people (iRail) who have used access to the site to provide better user experience. National bus services: - De Lijn (busses / trams / subway in Flanders): timetables available in PDF. Mobile app exists and you can contact them to sign a license if you want the data. - TEC (busses / trams / subway in Wallonia): couldn't find links to data - The STIB/MIVB (busses / trams / subway in Brussels) signed an agreement with Google, not sure if others can get the timetables in the same format. timetables are available in PDF though. Mobile app exists but not sure if API is publicly available.


58 National Statistics
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http://www.nbb.be/belgostat/Gl... n/a n/a 35%
58 National Statistics
URL: http://www.nbb.be/belgostat/GlobalDispatcher?TARGET=/TreeviewLinker&Lang=E&prop=treeview


Many separate spreadsheets available, although some data is only available when making a selection using online report builder.


51 Legislation
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http://www.belgielex.be n/a n/a 35%
51 Legislation
URL: http://www.belgielex.be


Structure of laws / law books could be improved: most legislation is available in HTML, but it misses semantic markup. Jurisprudence can be searched / viewed in a flash-based application.


35 Pollutant Emissions
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http://irceline.be/ n/a n/a 35%
35 Pollutant Emissions
URL: http://irceline.be/


Air quality: http://irceline.be/ (old-style HTML pages, API probably not available), licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND Radiation: http://telerad.fgov.be/ (flash based) Since environment is a Other data probably fed to http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps


54 Election Results
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http://verkiezingen2010.belgiu... PDF n/a 35%
54 Election Results
URL: http://verkiezingen2010.belgium.be/nl/cha/results/results_start.html
Format: PDF

Only PDFs of 2010 national election.


42 Company Register
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http://kbopub.economie.fgov.be... n/a n/a 30%
42 Company Register
URL: http://kbopub.economie.fgov.be/kbopub/zoekwoordenform.html


While it is available in bulk, that requires a 100.000 EUR/year license (by law). Per-company info is free, if requested on a one-by-one basis


51 National Map
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http://ngi.be/NL/NL1.shtm n/a n/a 15%
51 National Map
URL: http://ngi.be/NL/NL1.shtm


Not sure if low-res data can be obtained for free from another source. Brussels region does publish some maps for free: http://www.cibg.irisnet.be/core-business-nl/operationele-departementen/diensten/urbis


40 Government Spending
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40 Government Spending


Only aggregate tables per year are published on the statistical portal of the national bank of Belgium: http://www.nbb.be/belgostat/PublicatieSelectieLinker?LinkID=82000033|910000082&Lang=N


48 Location datasets
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48 Location datasets


There is no geospatial link for the postcodes. All that's available is the postcodes themselves with corresponding place names (http://www.bpost.be/site/nl/residential/customerservice/search/postal_codes.html).


Contributors

Reviewers

  • Pieter-Jan Pauwels
  • Georg Neumann
  • Gil Zaretzer
  • Kamil Gregor
  • Neal Bastek
  • Mor Rubinstein
  • Zach Christensen
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  • Nisha Thompson
  • yar michl
  • Rebecca Sentance
  • Tryggvi Björgvinsson
  • Codrina Maria Ilie

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