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This mobile application developed by the City Council of Ourense allows you to consult updated information about the city: news, notices or upcoming events on different topics such as:
- Arts and festivities: Cultural events organized by the city council.
- Tourism: Information about thermal facilities, tourist attractions, heritage, routes and gastronomy.
- Notifications: Real time notifications about possible traffic cuts, opening of monuments or other specific issues.
- Information: Data of general interest such as emergency telephone numbers or citizen services of the city council.
The mOUbil app, developed through local open data sets, unifies all the information of interest to the neighbors of Ourense, as well as tourists who want to know the city. In addition, anyone can make suggestions for improvement on the application through this form: Queries and Suggestions (ourense.gal).
Your download is available for both Android mOUbil - Ourense no peto! - Apps in Google Play and iOS: moubil - Ourense no peto! in App Store (apple.com)
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The application shows all public wireless networks in the city of Valencia and allows its geolocation. It offers a map to identify the location of the network and a free text field to insert any comment. It also has a detailed screen with which the user can rate from 1 to 5 the quality of the installation and the signal.
All this is stored on the device so that nothing is lost when closing the application.
The application is available in English, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese.
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Kohesio is a comprehensive knowledge database that provides easy and transparent access to up-to-date information on projects and beneficiaries co-financed by the EU cohesion policy during the 2014-2020 programming period.
This application is based on W3C semantic web open standards and open source tools. Its database currently contains more than 1.5 million projects and approximately 500 000 beneficiaries.
The EU Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy is responsible for gradually enriching Kohesio with new projects and beneficiaries for the programming period 2021-2027, in close cooperation with EU Member States and program authorities.
All datasets are available in CSV/XLSX and RDF format (see "Services" page).
EU Member States and program authorities publish lists of operations and related beneficiaries under their reporting and communication obligations Regulation (EU) No. 1303/2013, Annex XII[, and Regulation (EU) 2021/1060, Article 49].
Kohesio aggregates and standardizes the data in these lists of operations. All data published in the lists are the responsibility of the respective managing authorities.
Open data sources such as:
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This is a Telegram bot that provides information about the nearest water source to the user's location. This application generated from the reuse of information from the catalog of the open data portal of the Madrid City Council shares the address of the nearest source. If the user prefers, he/she can also provide a map of the location where the fountain is located or even search for the next closest one.
In this video you can see the practical application of the bot
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Precioil.es is a web platform where it is possible to consult information about gas stations located in Spain and their current prices.
Through a search engine, it is possible to locate gas stations in a given area and select the type of fuel and brand. In the information of each of the stations you can find not only the prices, but also the address, opening hours, location and other details of interest, as well as the price history of the last week.
Precioil.es also shows the evolution of the average prices per type of fuel in Spain for the last seven days, the data of the daily average prices per brand and the average prices per province. It also has a directory of all service stations in the country.
Open data on fuel prices in Spain have been used for its development.
The open data sources are:
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This application is a map in which about 70% of the fatal cyclist hit-and-runs on Spanish roads in the last fifteen years are geolocated. Each point on the map represents a fatal hit-and-run and contains the following information: cyclists killed, date and time, road, circumstances of the driver, link to Google Street View and to the source of information.
The dataset used is made up of accident data from the Dirección General de Tráfico and information obtained from the consultation of more than 300 news items on hit-and-runs in the digital version of different media.
From the data obtained, the application shows in which provinces there have been a greater number of accidents or in which time slot and day of the week they are more frequent.
The open data sources are:
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DGT: https://www.dgt.es/menusecundario/dgt-en-cifras/dgt-en-cifras-resultado…
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Information has also been extracted from more than 300 news items on road accidents.
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The UNA Women application offers a personalized dashboard with training options for young women according to their socioeconomic circumstances.
The main objective of the project is to contribute to reducing the gender employment gap. For this purpose, the company ITER IDEA has used more than 6 million lines of data processed from different sources, such as data.europa.eu, Eurostat, Censis, Istat (Italian National Institute of Statistics) or NUMBEO.
In terms of user experience, the application first asks the user to fill in a form to find out key data about the person seeking information: age, education or professional sector, training budget, etc. Once the data has been collected, the app offers an interactive map with all the training options in Europe. Each city has a panel that shows interesting data about studies, cost of living in the city, etc.
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This free software application offers a map with all the trees in the city of Barcelona geolocated by GPS. The user can access in-depth information on the subject. For example, the program identifies the number of trees in each street, their condition and even the species.
The application's developer, Pedro López Cabanillas, has used datasets from Barcelona's open data portal (Open Data Barcelona) and states, in his blog, that it can be useful for botany students or "curious users". The Barcelona Trees application is now in its third beta version.
The program uses the framework Qt, C++ and QML languages, and can be built (using a suitable modern compiler) for the most common targets: Windows, macOS, Linux and Android operating systems.
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When planning our vacations, we all look for the perfect destination that meets our expectations: beach, mountain, city... But once we have decided where to go, we still have to make many decisions: how am I going to organize my trip so that everything goes perfect? Luckily, we have hundreds of applications that make our lives much easier.
Nowadays you can use some apps to calculate the most suitable route to reach your destination or to decide where to fill up the car during the journey without damaging your pocket. You can also look for accommodation or restaurants with a good value for money, using your mobile. Or consult the cultural activities of the area, looking for activities aimed at the youngest members of the family. And, if you want to go to the beach, you can easily check the state of the sea, the wind or the temperature of the water without leaving the hotel.
All these applications, in addition to helping us organize our vacations in a simple way, have something in common: their functioning is based on open data from public administrations.
The fact that an increasing number of local administrations are opening their tourism data allows us to generate services that help to manage our trips in a more efficient way, integrating information that is sometimes difficult to find. As an example, Asturias or Aragón are promoting catalogues of specific datasets focused on this area.
Many of these applications have been designed by individuals and companies, reusing available open data, but others have been promoted by the public administrations. This is because tourism open data not only help visitors, but also have great advantages for municipalities.
Tourism is a fundamental economic activity for our country. During the first 5 months of 2018, Spain exceeded 28.6 million international tourists, representing an increase of 2% over the same period of the previous year. These tourists are a great source of economic income: just in May, the average expenditure per tourist was 1,009 euros, 1.8% more than in 2017. It is not surprising, therefore, that all city councils wants to promote their services and attract visitors.
Tourism applications based on open data can favor interaction between visitors and the local community, promoting local services and fostering economic growth. In addition, some applications even allow to collect information from users under their consent. The analysis of this anonymized information, combined with other data sets such as the total expenditure on trips of international tourists who participate in cultural activities or tourists housed by municipalities, allows knowing tourists behavior patterns and designing specific policies with the focus on innovation and intelligent management of tourist destinations.
Traditionally, the tourism sector has a great weight in Spain, but like all sectors, it has to keep renewing itself so as not to be left behind, integrating new elements that help improve the visitor's experience. Open data linked to the use of new technologies such as Big Data analysis and artificial intelligence are a good option - for example to make recommendations and customizations based on user behavior-. The ultimate goal is to provide a high quality global service that allows us to continue being leaders and receiving millions of visitors year after year.
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A new edition of the Aporta Challenge is already underway. As the previous edition, new ideas and prototypes based on open data are sought to help improve the efficiency of a specific sector. In this case, the agri-food, forestry and rural sector have been chosen, due to its fundamental role in the creation of wealth and employment.
Why is the agri-food, forestry and rural sector important?
Currently, this sector is facing a series of challenges that affect all us and, ultimately, the future of humanity, such as climate change, food security, population growth or depopulation in rural areas. Generating a higher amount of food to support the whole population, in a safe way and respectful with the environment, looking for alternatives to the concentration of population into urban areas, driving the development of rural environment, as well as protecting and preserving the forests for future generations, are demanding and urgent tasks.
To these global problems, we must add the specific challenges of Spain. Depopulation, aging, desertification, digital divide, masculinization, deficit and dispersion of services ... are some of the concepts that usually come to mind when we think about the rural environment in our country.
A paradigm shift is necessary to face these challenges.
How can open data help to improve this situation?
The digital transformation can help to change the bases of agri-food operations, promoting the rural environment, in many different ways; for example, through the smart agriculture that combines technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence with public and private data management, to maximize crop yields, increase productivity and improve their sustainability. In this context, open data has a fundamental role.
What is Aporta Challenge 2019?
Aporta Challenge seeks to promote talent, technical competence and creativity in the reuse of open data, with the aim of devising solutions that help promote improvements in the agri-food, forestry and rural sector.
The ideas and prototypes presented must use at least one source of open data generated by Public Administrations, whether national or international, and published under an open license. These data sets may be combined with others from various sources, both public or private, and national or international.
The contest will be developed in 2 phases:
- Phase I: Ideas competition. Participants must provide a detailed description of an original idea that can be used to create or enrich a service, study, web or mobile application, which leads to improvements for the agri-food, forestry and rural sector. All the ideas will be evaluated according to criteria such as: their innovative character, their economic and social impact, and their contribution to improving the life quality of young people and women, two fundamental groups for the sector survival. After the evaluation process, the 10 best ideas will be selected and their authors will go to Phase II.
- Phase II: Prototype development and face-to-face exposition. During Phase II, the authors of the 10 selected ideas will elaborate a prototype that may consist of simulations, visualizations, videos or multimedia solutions. The 3 best prototypes will be selected according to criteria such as ease-of-use or technical quality.
During the following months, dissemination and follow-up will be carried out.
Who can participate?
The Aporta Challenge is aimed at individuals and legal entities of the European Union.
Those interested in participating must register in this form.
What are the prizes?
The three best prototypes presented will opt for three monetary prizes according to the following amounts:
- First prize: € 4,000
- Second prize: € 3,000
- Third prize: € 2,000
More information in the Challenge Aporta section and the Competitions Rules.
