[Talk-GB] Woodland Trust and Open Data

[TimSC]

My communication recent with the woodland trust, regarding open data:

> It would be good if you could do more on data openness - that is more permissive permissions to use data on your web site. Also it would be good to be able to upload creative commons licensed photos to your visitwoods pages, as there are many good photos on flickr like that.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tim
>    

On 16/06/11 15:28, Tim Sheerman-Chase wrote:
> On 16/06/11 15:20, visitwoods at woodlandtrust.org.uk wrote:
>> Your comments about data and creative commons prompted an interesting 
>> discussion in our team. While we would like to do more about data 
>> openness, our data is licensed from a huge number of partners, so we 
>> are unable at present to make it more open. We would like to assure 
>> you that your comments have been taken seriously, and have been fed 
>> into our ongoing project development.
> Thanks for taking the time to respond. I look forward to any future 
> attempts that can be made on your part to adopt open data.
>
> You might be interested in something I did with Kent Council Council 
> recently. They released a list and rough location of green spaces in 
> the Medway area. I have created a web 2.0 website to collect user 
> annotations and improved position data. 
> http://toolserver.org/~timsc/locateservices/greenspaces/ I hope it is 
> food for thought.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tim