The problem of the status of public service geographical data that we have discussed could be fixed by the Ordnance Survey simply declaring that certain categories of data are completely free for re-use even if they have been derived from OS maps.
My candidates for this are:
All government administrative boundaries – e.g. constituencies, wards, super output [...]
Entries from November 2008
November 27, 2008
Geographic Data that Should be Free (In All Senses of the Word)
November 26, 2008
Pre Budget Report and Trading Funds
The Pre Budget Report has a paragraph with relevance to the information reuse agenda…
4.54 The HM Treasury/Shareholder Executive assessment of trading funds has considered the potential for innovation and growth from increasing commercial and other use of public sector information. It will shortly publish some key principles for the re-use of this information, consider how [...]
November 18, 2008
Access Layer Components
The Task Force work has been divided into two broad areas – exemplars and enablers. The ShowUsABetterWay competition has taken forward the exemplars strand. On the enablers side, we have been working on a model for a different architecture for public service information.
Our enablers work looks at what is needed for a usable [...]
November 13, 2008
Credit Where It’s Due
As well as getting information out of government, the Power of Information agenda is about better ways of getting information into government. The development of an interface to FixMyStreet.com by Michael Houlsby at East Hampshire Council is a great example of a public official taking an initiative in this area to improve the service [...]
November 3, 2008
A Collection of Crime Data
We have been mapping out the landscape for crime data in the UK and the list of sources for England and Wales we have come across is below. We don’t pretend this is comprehensive or 100% accurate (e.g. some references are to specific time data from a couple of months ago) so if you have [...]
