[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Nov 4th Social

[Andy Mabbett]

On 16 November 2010 11:26, Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
> On 5 November 2010 09:12, Brian Prangle <bprangle at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Thanks to Andy M's introduction of the PMSA sculpture database I've been in
>> touch with Ian Leith the vice chairman of PMSA who is quite excited about
>> the possibility of us adding PMSA listed sculptures and eventually making a
>> rendered map of them.

> It would be fantastic if they could release that as open data; but do
> bear in mind that it's *very* out-of-date and, so far as I'm aware,
> they have no plans to update it. That's a great pity; I wonder whether
> they might be willing to make it available as a wiki, or to allow
> someone else to fork it as such? It would be good if it also included
> coordinates.

> Also, in case anyone's not already aware of it, there's the Open Plaque project:
>
>     http://openplaques.org/
>
> Its a pity, I think to see such work duplicating some of what we do. I
> do wish people would not reinvent the wheel! Is there anything we can
> do to either import their data, or to get a feed of new additions
> which we can verify and add manually>? (I'm thinking of the model used
> recently with the supplied list of cycle shops.)

The theme, "it’s culture. You can interpret that any way you like, but
we think of it as art, music, dance, poetry, prose, and performance in
general" and dates, 8pm, Friday 10 - 8pm, Sunday 12 December 2010, of
this year's Hackitude have just been announced, and tickets are
available:

   http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1049423855/estwbreg

There's clearly potential for crossover, or at least avoiding
duplication of effort.

-- 
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk