Re-use of public data(Police – Fire brigade)

A case by Tommy KaasEditor at Kaas & Mulvad

Denmark

Few things we would like to do:

• Create our own statistics based on the reports• Create our own maps with crimes• Create our own mobile applications

Few major problems:

• Some Police departments and Fire brigades do not publish reports

• Reports are published in different ways• Some reports are almost without structure• Different types of info are included/excluded• Some addresses are non-existing• Addresses are never exact

Few examples of our web scraping

• Foreclosures• Votings, attendance and discussions in the Danish

Parliament• EU Commissions Lobby register• Food safety inspection reports• Work safety inspection reports

and of course:• Reports from the Police• Reports from fire brigades

Web scraping

Street and city

Lat, Long

A rough demo

• A demo

• A demo

• A demo

What we would like?

• Every department should publish data• Everybody should publish same content• Everybody should publish the same way

Or just give us access to their database…