[Talk-GB] Kent Open Data, KCC

[Steve Doerr]

I wonder if they would have data relating to on-street-parking restrictions?

Steve


On 23/05/2011 14:53, Gregory Williams wrote:
>
> 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&lat=51.14048&lon=0.63703&layers=BT 
> <http://www.spokeseastkent.org.uk/maps/cycle-parking-heat-map/?zoom=10&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 
> <mailto: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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