The Estonian Open Data Portal ensures access for interested parties to public sector data without access restrictions, which can be both reused and shared. As of June 2020, the portal hosted over 700 datasets, some of which also include spatial data necessary for mobility research. The thematic diversity of such databases is quite broad, covering, for example:
- Politics (e.g., public election data);
- Economy (e.g., publicly available free data from the Business Register, registered unemployed persons);
- Law and security (e.g., offenses against public order and crimes committed in public spaces, the Road Administration’s traffic accident database MALIS);
- Buildings and transport (e.g., Building Register, public transport register open data);
- Medicine (e.g., general practitioners’ lists, compliance of public pharmacies with pharmacy reform requirements);
- Education and science (e.g., open data from EHIS, open data from the examination information system);
- Culture and sports (e.g., open data from the Estonian Sports Register);
- and various regional datasets (e.g., permits for public events in Tallinn, locations of sports and playgrounds in Tartu).
The level of spatial detail varies depending on the database, ranging from county names to precise addresses and geographic coordinates.
Each dataset on the portal includes a brief description, information on the usage license, update frequency, the date it was added to the portal and last modified, its main theme, as well as contact information.
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