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Hong Kong is ranked #54 in the 2014 Index
Hong Kong's overall Index ranking is up from #56 in 2013

Rank Dataset Breakdown Location (URL) Format Info Prev. Score
19 Government Budget
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http://www.budget.gov.hk/2013/... n/a #36  45% 85%
19 Government Budget
URL: http://www.budget.gov.hk/2013/index.html


The data are provided in pdf format by the Information Services Department (ISD) and Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau, of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government of the People's Republic of China. Data are under copyright.

The data are also provided in csv format the South China Morning Post (a media company): http://widgets.scmp.com/infographic/20140304/budget2014/data/

Data is not in Machine readable format, but in PDF


13 Pollutant Emissions
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http://epic.epd.gov.hk/EPICDI/... CSV #53  0% 70%
13 Pollutant Emissions
URL: http://epic.epd.gov.hk/EPICDI/air/station/?lang=en
Format: CSV

Web interface allows you to pre-filter the exported CSV on particles / data and geographies.

Air quality Index data (which is based upon the raw data from air quality monitoring network) is available at: http://www.aqhi.gov.hk/epd/ddata/html/out/24aqhi_Eng.xml


66 National Statistics
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http://www.censtatd.gov.hk/hks... HTML; XLS n/a #46  45% 45%
37 National Map
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http://www.landsd.gov.hk/mappi... n/a #57  0% 45%
37 National Map
URL: http://www.landsd.gov.hk/mapping/en/download/openmaps.htm


Digital Topographic Map (B100k-OM) The B100k-OM is a topographic map of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. It shows the key geographical features and is suitable for map applications in 1:100 000 scale. The image for download is geo-referenced to the local coordinate system in Hong Kong 1980 Grid.

Digital Orthophoto Map (DOPM100-L0-OM) The DOPM100-L0-OM is an orthophoto map of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. It is mosaicked from geometrically rectified aerial photographs and constructed for measurement accurate to 1:100 000 scale. The image for download is geo-referenced to the local coordinate system in Hong Kong 1980 Grid. (Remark: The area beyond the Hong Kong territory is produced from Landsat-7 satellite image.)


33 Legislation
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http://www.legislation.gov.hk/... HTML; PDF n/a #26  45% 45%
51 Election Results
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http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/gen... HTML #35  45% 45%
51 Election Results
URL: http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201209/10/P201209100125.htm
Format: HTML

press release: http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201209/10/P201209100125.htm elections website - does not appear to include election results though: http://www.elections.gov.hk/legco2012/en/


57 Company Register
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http://www.icris.cr.gov.hk/ n/a n/a #16  45% 30%
15 Government Spending
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n/a n/a #20  10% 10%
15 Government Spending


Theoretically this transaction-level spending data should exist since that is how the summarised annual revenue and expenditure reports, found at: http://www.censtatd.gov.hk/hkstat/sub/sp110.jsp can be created.


61 Transport Timetables
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n/a n/a n/a #43  30% 0%
57 Location datasets
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n/a n/a #48  0% 0%
57 Location datasets


postcodes/zipcodes not used so this dataset does not apply. http://futurehandling.com/2012/11/12/why-doesnt-hong-kong-have-postal-codes/


Contributors

Reviewers

  • Georg Neumann
  • FENG GAO
  • Gil Zaretzer
  • Kamil Gregor
  • Tryggvi Björgvinsson
  • Mor Rubinstein
  • Zach Christensen
  • anonymous
  • Nisha Thompson
  • yar michl
  • Rebecca Sentance
  • Neal Bastek
  • Codrina Maria Ilie

Submitters

  • Rob Davidson
  • S.C. Edmunds
  • Pierre Chrzanowski
  • Tryggvi Björgvinsson
  • anonymous