[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Local Data panel West Midlands meeting

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

Sounds good to me. The pub was the Bowling Green on the Friary Road
roundabout. 

http://mappa-mercia.org/?zoom=17&lat=52.6791&lon=-1.83443

Cheers

Andy
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>westmidlands-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Brian Prangle
>Sent: 22 April 2010 9:28 AM
>To: talk-gb-westmidlands at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Local Data panel West Midlands meeting
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>Hi everyone
>
>The Cabinet Office and the Department of Communities and Local Govt
>organised an event on Monday in Birmingham which I attended. They chose the
>West Mids because they see us as doing lots of innovative things with local
>datasets. The DIY BCC web site and mappa-mercia were held up as shining
>exemplars. Our gritting routes and public transport routes overlays got a
>lot of attention.  I offered a standing invitiation to all the local
>authorities there to work with us on whatever they could release - gritting
>routes seemed a good starting palce. Herefordshire and the the NHS seemed
>very keen so I will follow up. Warwickshire are becoming very active as
>well with a local hack competition to use their data (unfortunately they
>some kind of contract with a software developer to publish data on maps and
>the developer won't use OSM because it's not complete). Lichfield is held
>up as the leading authority in publishing opendata so perhaps we should
>complete mapping the city and I suggest that our next monthly meeting is
>held there (same pub as last time -I'll get the details if everyone agrees)
>so we can do some more mappingan hopefully complete it
>
>Regards
>
>Brian
>
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