[Talk-GB] Kent Open Data, KCC

Gregory Williams gregory.williams at purplegeodesoftware.co.uk
Tue May 24 16:00:17 BST 2011


Looking at the school data I see that it's not completely up-to-date. I note
that one school shows the previous head's name (the current head has been in
place for a couple of years) and doesn't reflect that it's recently become
an academy. This despite the fact that it's noted that it was last modified
yesterday.

 

So, based upon this admittedly isolated case, we shouldn't assume that all
of the data is current - we might have more up-to-date data than KCC.

 

From: TimSC [mailto:mapping at sheerman-chase.org.uk] 
Sent: 23 May 2011 18:32
To: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
Cc: Noel.Hatch2 at kent.gov.uk
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Kent Open Data, KCC

 


I have been informed that the beta OpenKent site, with more data and
visualisation tools is here:

http://www.openkent.org.uk/

Some things that caught my eye: lists of librarys, GPs, opticians, pharmacy,
KCC offices, medway car parks, schools. This would be good for validation,
as I said. 

As well as what has already been mentioned (speed limits, etc), we could
also do with lists of post offices, alchohol licensed buildings, sure starts
(kindergartens), petrol stations (or petrol storage), public telephones*,
taxi ranks*, dentists*, arts centres, public art, law courts, crematoria,
fire stations, police stations, council grave yards*, markets*, prisons,
recycling points, public toilets, places of worship*, parks, landfills,
allotments, sports centres, tourist information offices, museums, highway
maintenance depots, quarries, planning permissions, amusements, auction
licenses, animal boardings, pet shops, tattoo shops, sex establishments,
horse riding establishments, gambling locations, zoos, trees (apparently the
highway authority has a tree database), park parks (including outside
medway), highway renaming, new highway designations, changes to rights of
way, all business premises .... did I miss anything?! If that is too much,
we can prioritise our request to the council. We might start by asking for
data that no one else has on their map and that is hard to comprehensively
survey without their information. (Remember, I am not proposing to import
anything yet, just to check against what the council has.) Hackey council
has a list of many things they license, on the web [1], which is good for
ideas.

* that is if the council holds the data.

If people can think of more data sets, we can put together a doodle poll to
find the most wanted and to provide some justification (i.e. public demand)
for us requesting the data.

Btw, I found the parish data I was looking for in OS OpenData, so no need to
pester the council for that.

TimSC

[1] http://www.hackney.gov.uk/licensing.htm

On 23/05/11 16:10, Gregory Williams wrote: 

I've seen excerpts of that data in reports presented to the various Joint
Transport Board meetings, so yes they have it.

 

Gregory

 

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