Global Open Data Index: Survey
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(French) Représente toutes les offres et attributions de marchés publics nationaux agrégées par ministère. L’évaluation peut aider les groupes à participer à l'offre et accroître la transparence du gouvernement.
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Openly licenced | Yes | |
| In an open and machine-readable format | DBF, SHP, SHX | |
| Downloadable at once | Yes | |
| Up-to-date | Yes | |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| findable | 3 | A user must know that the U.S. refers to this dataset as "Governmental Boundaiers" |
| findable_steps | Accessed the U.S. national map (nationalmap.gov) and selected the "basic viewer" and selected the "Governmental Boundaries" dataset | |
| licence_url | https://www2.usgs.gov/laws/info_policies.html | The dataset also includes a "data distribution policy" with entries such as: "Distribution_Policy = Public Domain - Free Distribution to Third Parties Via Internet " |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 3 | |
| collector_name | United States Geological Survey | |
| characteristics | Boundary level 1, Boundary level 2, Coordinates (latitude, longitude), Name of poligone (department, region, city), Borders of poligone | The datasets have the proper Projection files. |
| location | https://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ - Administrative Boundaries are referred to as Governmental Unit Boundaries |
Downloaded a sample dataset for DC; confirmed there is indeed coordinates data; so updated that attribute; and add the missing ESRI Shapefiles data format (DBF, SHX). Your submission is valid. Thank you very much for contributing to the Global Open Data Index.