Data Portals/Nova Scotia Open Data

Nova Scotia Open Data

Nova Scotia's open data portal, making provincial government data easier to access for individuals, businesses, and researchers.

The Nova Scotia Open Data Portal is the Government of Nova Scotia's platform for open data, built on Socrata. It publishes datasets from provincial departments with APIs, visualization, and a storytelling feature called Perspectives.

Coverage includes social services, business and economy, government administration, and nature and environment, with geospatial datasets such as road sections and traffic volumes available for mapping. Data is released under the Open Government Licence – Nova Scotia.

Frequently Asked Questions

It runs on Socrata, providing per-dataset APIs, visualization, and GeoJSON export for spatial datasets.

Perspectives is the portal’s storytelling feature, adding videos, images, and narrative context to datasets.

The Open Government Licence – Nova Scotia, free for reuse with attribution.

Details

AgencyGovernment of Nova Scotia
LevelRegional
RegionNorth America
CoverageNova Scotia, Canada
LicenseOpen Government Licence – Nova Scotia
Formats
CSVGeoJSONShapefileAPI
Update FrequencyContinuous
Categories
CanadaRegionalOpen Data
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