Four city dashboards, which help the public visualise real-time dynamic Hong Kong data, are available on data.gov.hk, the Government announced today.

The dashboards present data on environment and weather, transport and traffic, public facilities and services and a city overview on interactive charts and maps.

They were developed to be more user-friendly, the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer said, adding the dashboards will help stimulate data providers and the public to brainstorm more ideas on open data and new innovative applications for smart city development.

The Government has been promoting the opening of its data. Currently, there are about 4,000 datasets on the Public Sector Information Portal.

Among the more than 700 new datasets released are those of real-time estimated arrival times of New World First Bus, Citybus, New Lantao Bus and the Mass Transit Railway.

Over 220 new datasets are scheduled for release in 2020, including weather data from the Hong Kong Observatory.