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1 National Statistics
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 http://data.gov.tw/node/6803 XML #60  50% 100%
1 National Statistics
URL: http://data.gov.tw/node/6803
Format: XML

Data are openly licensed, current, and available in open formats.

http://data.gov.tw/node/6637 http://data.gov.tw/node/18681
1 Procurement tenders
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 http://data.gov.tw/node/7264 XML n/a 100%
1 Procurement tenders
URL: http://data.gov.tw/node/7264
Format: XML

Active tenders are searchable. Full data is available through the Open Data portal.
1 National Map
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 http://data.gov.tw/node/9363 WMS #20  70% 100%
1 National Map
URL: http://data.gov.tw/node/9363
Format: WMS

The original website (http://emap.nlsc.gov.tw/gis/ ) is a mapping service online, you have to register to use more function.

In 2014, The Ministry of Interior has built their open data platform (only in Traditional Chinese), http://data.moi.gov.tw/MoiOD/default/Index.aspx in June. They provide the map web service to download to use.

They also provide the data to http://data.gov.tw , people also can download the data in http://data.gov.tw/node/9363 .

The Principles of Use are compliant with the open definition.
1 Legislation
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 http://law.moj.gov.tw/PublicDa... XML #12  75% 100%
1 Legislation
URL: http://law.moj.gov.tw/PublicData/GetFile.ashx?DType=XML&AuData=CF
Format: XML

It's a website above is belong to Ministry of Justice, and use to search the laws, date, legislative process.

  • English website: Link

Some legislative records belong to Legislative Yuan. and the gazette of the Legislative Yuan is here Link, but in all in zh-TW PDF files.
1 Pollutant Emissions
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 http://opendata.epa.gov.tw/Dat... XML, ... n/a #6  90% 100%
1 Election Results
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 http://data.gov.tw/node/13119 CSV n/a #51  45% 100%
1 Company Register
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 http://data.gcis.nat.gov.tw/od... CSV #5  90% 100%
1 Company Register
URL: http://data.gcis.nat.gov.tw/od/detail?oid=AD28285B-7B0E-4241-9F58-F2F0F289333E
Format: CSV

Company data is updated month by month. NB, some users may have trouble viewing Taiwanese characters when opening CSV file in Excel.
1 Government Budget
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 http://data.gov.tw/node/11851 XML #22  70% 100%
1 Government Budget
URL: http://data.gov.tw/node/11851
Format: XML

They also provide brief presentation on analysis of annual revenue and Expenditure in English, PDF format. Central Government General Budget, Ficscal Year 2015: Link (All in PDF.)
7 Weather forecast
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 http://data.gov.tw/node/9219 XML n/a 90%
7 Weather forecast
URL: http://data.gov.tw/node/9219
Format: XML

The PDF is Chinese-English vocabulary form not about the data, but you can find the 7 days forecast data in XML file.
1 Water Quality
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 http://data.gov.tw/node/6308 CSV n/a 90%
1 Water Quality
URL: http://data.gov.tw/node/6308
Format: CSV

The item above is about the water quality of reservoirs in different place. The data is about the name of different reservoirs, townships, layer and depth of sample, and details. The data update every month and can be download easily in single file.
8 Government Spending
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 n/a n/a #15  10% 10%
8 Government Spending


http://www.dgbas.gov.tw/public/Attachment/4828914358VPAUQXD.xls shows the aggregated data which indicates the transactional data exists and is digital.
49 Location datasets
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49 Location datasets


  1. The Zip Code above. is in Zh-TW and can be open by unzip tools, and also provide the English post code search interface here.
  2. The Administrative boundaries above. can be open by GIS tools, and also provide the English administrative boundaries search interface here

53 Land Ownership
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