Open Knowledge

Pollutant Emissions / 2014 45% open

Belgium


What data is expected?

Aggregate data about the emission of air pollutants especially those potentially harmful to human health (although it is not a requirement to include information on greenhouse gas emissions). Aggregate means national-level or available for at least three major cities. In order to satisfy the minimum requirements for this category, data must be available for the following pollutants and meet the following minimum criteria:

  • Particulate matter (PM) Levels
  • Sulphur oxides (SOx)
  • Nitrogen oxides (NOx)
  • Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
  • Carbon monoxide (CO)
  • Updated on at least once a week.
  • Measured either at a national level by regions or at leasts in 3 big cities.

What data is available

  •   Openly licensed? No (No URL given)
  •   Is the data available for free? Yes
  •   Is the data machine readable? Unsure (n/a)
  •   Available in bulk? Unsure
  •   Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Yes
  •   Publicly available? Yes
  •   Is data in digital form? Yes
  •   Is the data available online? Yes (Here)
  •   Does the data exist? Yes

Details

Air quality: http://www.irceline.be/ (data from services embedded in HTML pages), 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

Reviewer comments

Changed machine readability and bulk to unsure. We can't find the proper link to the raw data, only the maps. Even when searched in Google you can only find some test projects. License is not open according to the Open Definition (Non-commercial and Non-derivative obstruct the freedom of using it for all purposes). They are surely working on Open Data on a technical level, but the data is not available / accessible for the general public.

Contributors

Reviewers

  • Pieter-Jan Pauwels

Submitters

  • anonymous