Brazil / 2013 48% open

There is a machine-readable 1:250.000-scale vectorial map data suitable for ingestion in digital map-making systems (GIS), which includes administrative boundaries, water bodies, transportation infrastructure, energy and communication, etc. There are several other map products, at scales both greater and smaller that the above one. The licensing is unclear but claimed to be public domain, see http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-br/2009-January/000029.html.

The repository of election data is available since 2009. There is no license available on the website. An introductory text explains that data can be freely used by researchers and citizens but no reference is made to open data.

Since 2009 the Brazilian Federal Institute for Geography and Statistics realizes regular research about economic activity on a monthly base. Data is available for different economic activities and per state. Every ten years the institute realizes a demographic census.

Zipcodes are sold by the public company "Correios" (Brazilian mail service).

ANTT theoretically offers timetable data for interstatual bus lines. In order to access the data, users have to fill out a form and can only consult one connection at a time. In Brazil there is no significant public transport on a national level by train. The answers are related to bus transport.

Has metadata about legislation (federal, state and municipal level - even though levels other than federal depend on agreements being made and few are present yet) and also court decision. Users can browse and filter content according to this metadata. Links to the full text are provided, when available, often with multiple sources (eg. the same law on the Presidency's and both Parliament's websites).

There is currently a bug on the site of the Brazilian Planning Ministry and it is not possible to access the data for 2000 and 2001. Budget data is released as soon as the annual budget law passes the congress.

Access to company data in Brazil is very limited. In order to access data, one needs to know the identification number of the company. There is no service where people can search for the identification number if they only know the name.

The Brazilian Federal Institute for Geography and Statistics - IBGE produced time series between 1992 and 2009/2010 referring to the air pollution in metropolitan areas. However, these data is not being updated anymore. The data does only cover some Brazilian cities.