[Talk-GB] Kent Open Data, KCC

[Tom Chance]

Tim,

You might like to ask them to provide you with a list of geodata they hold
and that they can release (under the PSMA) without any restrictions. I got
such a list off Southwark Council and it gave me a few ideas of data that
would be useful including trees and cycle parking stands.

Tom


On 22 May 2011 11:11, TimSC <mapping at sheerman-chase.org.uk> wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> I met people from Kent's OpenKent, which is a county council open data
> initiative [1][2]. They explained their work and I told them about
> openstreetmap and its community. They said Kent is not as well developed in
> open data as some councils but they have a long term commitment to
> improvement. They have some data sets available but they seem to be mainly
> concerned with expenses, census data and school expenditure so far. They
> said they are seeking ideas of what data to publish because they need to
> prioritize their effort in getting the data for which there is a public
> demand. If you have ideas, I suggest you get in touch. I expect other
> councils have already done stuff that's interesting and it might be worth
> making them aware. They also plan to showcase interesting data
> visualisations based on their data or any Kent related data. It might be
> good to get publicity for small projects. OpenKent is also seeking ideas and
> feedback for a (web based?) data visualisation tool they are planning to
> help the (non-technical) public use the data.
>
> I tried to think of data that would be useful to mappers. Obviously the
> rights of way data would be amazing. The council also holds the parish
> boundaries data. Some government data sets use parish and electoral
> boundaries as their areas, so that would be useful to do visualisations.
> Also the Kent Heritage Tree Project [3] might like the parish boundaries, as
> apparently many old trees are on or near these boundaries. Having lists of
> public institutions, possibly with addresses, would be great to validate the
> OSM database. We can quickly find any schools, public services that we
> missed. I suspect we will avoid doing imports of data which is not really
> GIS but we might add data to OSM to make visualisations and mash ups easier
> (machine tags and data to link to their database rows).
>
> Again, they said they would appreciate any ideas. I talked to Noel Hatch
> and Matthew Kerr. Get in touch with them. :)
>
> Regards,
>
> TimSC
>
> [1] http://www.kent.gov.uk/your_council/open_data.aspx
> [2] http://openkent.blogspot.com/
> [3] http://kentheritagetrees.btcv.org.uk/
>
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