[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fwd: BSC Open Data Meeting

[Andy Robinson]

LSG (Local Street Gazetteer)

Schools

Libraries

Neighbourhood Offices

Polling Stations

Recycling Centres/Domestic Waste points

Historic Environment Record

Registered Historic Parks and Gardens

Scheduled Ancient Monuments

Public buildings

Car Parking/Parking spaces

ROW

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From: Brian Prangle [mailto:brian at mappa-mercia.org] 
Sent: 13 August 2013 14:59
To: OSM Group WM
Subject: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Fwd: BSC Open Data Meeting

 

Hi everyone

 

Can I have a shopping list? Off the top of my head I can think of

 

speed limits

red routes

 

Regards

 

Brian

 

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From: Goh, Susannah <s.goh at aston.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:07 AM
Subject: BSC Open Data Meeting




Hi Everyone,

 

The West Midlands has had a thriving open data community for some time. Our
local government departments are exploring the potential use of open data to
improve service provision.   For example, in Birmingham, Digital Birmingham
and the City Council have approved an open data strategy at Cabinet level.
The time is right for us to collectively explore how to get the most for our
region. Following the discussion of this topic at our last Digital Working
Group meeting, we would like to invite you as potential users and providers
of open data to a workshop to identify challenges to overcome in order to
for us to get real value from this data; and to contribute to a business
case for addressing them.

 

During the meeting we would like you to begin to plot out and explore some
of the key areas in which open data should be used; the type of data that is
being made available; how and by whom it can/ should be used; and what we
hope to gain from its use.  We also need to be mindful of the immensity of
the open data agenda, so it's essential that we start to define the
parameters of what we want to do.  By the end of the meet, we'd like you to
be able to come away with new contacts as well as some ideas that can turn
into meaningful, realistic and scalable activities.

 

We look forward to seeing you there.

 

All the best

 

Susannah and Rick

 

 

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