Frankfurt: Lack of Open Data Frustrates Researchers

The words of Chancellor Angela Merkel, welcoming victims of armed conflict to her country, led to over a million refugees arriving in Germany. The city of Frankfurt (more than 700,000 inhabitants) has taken its share. The Department of Geoinformation and Public Works at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences launched a project to find housing for the thousands of migrants, but the scientists found many barriers standing in the way of them obtaining the spatial data they needed.