City Crawlers Berlin

We are currently reviewing the data offered by the city of Berlin. The results are surprisingly good. Even though open data in Germany isn’t as widely available as it is in some other european countries like Iceland and the UK, there are still a lot of open data sets waiting to be explored and visualized.

A dataset that’s not publicly available, but is out there, is the data of Berlin public transport. Stefan Wehrmeyer, with whom we will collaborate, has collected this data by hand and has turned it into the beautiful – and useful – Mapnificient. In addition to our efforts to get a hold of these data sets, we also intend to publish this data. By working together with initiatives such as Open Berlin, we intend to find new uses of data and make information a little bit more transparant.

There’s also are some data sets available on the urban development website of Berlin, though most of them are outdated and incomplete. The good news however, is that only a part of the book is going to be based on government data. There’s a lot more data out there and we’ll keep you posted. Feel free to get in contact with us if you find anything that might be interesting.