Munich asks residents and businesses which city data should be made public

Munich residents and businesses are being asked which data the city should make publicly available in future. Until 6 December, ideas and suggestions can be submitted on the city's online participation platform, unser.muenchen.de.

The city wants to find out which datasets are of particular interest to people in Munich and could be published on its open data portal. Open data is data that is publicly accessible and can be freely used and reused under an open licence.

The consultation follows a city council decision from October 2025 titled "Open Data: identifying the city's own high-value datasets". It instructed the IT department to work with the city's other departments and municipal companies to identify datasets of particular interest to Munich and make them available through the open data portal.

The city says it wants to gather a range of perspectives and needs. As well as individual residents, businesses are explicitly invited to take part. They can label their submissions so that their data requests can be assessed separately.

Once the consultation closes, the suggestions will be passed on to the relevant city departments and municipal companies. Datasets found suitable for release can then be published on the open data portal. There is no entitlement to have any proposed dataset published.