[Talk-GB] Kent Open Data, KCC

[Gregory Williams]

Not strictly an OSM thing, but I'd also like to see traffic count data
released by KCC too.

 

Gregory

 

From: Gregory Williams [mailto:gregory.williams at purplegeodesoftware.co.uk] 
Sent: 23 May 2011 10:56
To: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Kent Open Data, KCC

 

Based upon previous discussions with KCC with my cycle campaigning hat on
the cycle parking data that KCC hold is far from exhaustive. Also it's of
the form "outside shop xyz, Some Road, Some Place". So, apart from giving us
clues of places to go out and look for cycle parking we haven't mapped yet,
it's not terribly useful. Luckily, as far as things go, I think I've mapped
pretty much all of the cycle parking in East Kent and quite a bit elsewhere
in the county, as is shown on the cycle parking heat map I maintain:

 

http://www.spokeseastkent.org.uk/maps/cycle-parking-heat-map/?zoom=10
<http://www.spokeseastkent.org.uk/maps/cycle-parking-heat-map/?zoom=10&lat=5
1.14048&lon=0.63703&layers=BT> &lat=51.14048&lon=0.63703&layers=BT

 

I would be very interested in whether KCC are able to release data about
maximum speed limits and traffic calming measures in a form that OSM is able
to use. My personal preference would be to use this as something to compare
against, such that we can assess where our own data isn't complete, rather
than as something that would be imported.

 

Gregory

 

From: Tom Chance [mailto:tom at acrewoods.net] 
Sent: 22 May 2011 11:28
To: TimSC
Cc: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Kent Open Data, KCC

 

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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