Please note that this post was written in 2011 and the server addresses have changed. Please refer to data.wien.gv.at for the latest links.

The city of Vienna has started their open data initiative. They’re offering data on a variety of topics, including: infrastructure, population, education, environment and traffic.

For use in GIS, they serve the data through WMS and WFS:

• WMS: http://data.wien.gv.at/daten/wms?service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities&version=1.1.1
• WFS 1.0: http://data.wien.gv.at/daten/wfs?service=WFS&request=GetCapabilities&version=1.0.0
•  WFS 1.1: http://data.wien.gv.at/daten/wfs?service=WFS&request=GetCapabilities&version=1.1.0

Both WMS and WFS work well with the developer version of QGIS.

Looking forward to new datasets. Announcements should be published via RSS feed.