[Talk-GB] help on downloading from data.gov data

[Kai Michael Poppe]

Generalizing greatly, I suspect y'all have clearly never tried getting information from the German authorities 😬

I'd sell a kingdom for a centralised data hub that has over 2,000 mapping resources ;-)

I have to run around asking every little town for providing information with a FOI request and making them explicitly accept the OSM copyright...

But having a WFS for OSM access? Nice idea :)

Kai

28.09.2021 12:23:35 Mark Goodge <mark at good-stuff.co.uk>:

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> On 28/09/2021 08:17, Jez Nicholson wrote:
>> Ironic that the Government departments think they are making data easily accessible by publishing WMS/WFS feeds.
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> To be fair, WFS is an open standard and is commonly used for geospatial applications. And, from the perspective of someone who uses government open data as part of my job, I'm actually quite pleased that they publish geospatial data in a proper geospatial format rather than dumbing it down to a csv (or, worse, a PDF!) and then claiming that they've met their open data commitments.
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> Mark
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