From tom at acrewoods.net Wed Sep 22 17:27:10 2010 From: tom at acrewoods.net (Tom Chance) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:27:10 +0100 Subject: [osm-professional] OSM & regional government collaboration case study Message-ID: Hello, Subscribers to this list might be interested in our collaboration with the Greater London Authority, the regional governance body for the capital city. The GLA runs an open data project, and has released upon request their data - gathered from the 33 local London boroughs - on allotments in the city. The data is from 2007, is quite rough and only records points (i.e. no polygon shapes). I am rallying OSM contributors to check the data, and I will be meeting with some people who work on regional food issues to see how we can engage with other communities. Along with some efforts to submit errors in the Ordnance Survey open data back to them, this is one of the only examples I know of in the UK where an open data release turns into a two-way collaboration. Read an outline of this and check out the tool we are using here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/London/Datastore_allotments Regards, Tom Chance -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: