Well, it’s been an exciting few months for the open data movement, with the future of the Ordnance Survey and geographical data going out to consultation and data.gov.uk being launched, but imagine my horror when I finally received a response to the petition I started to make postcode data free to non-profits. The full text [...]
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- A Local Spending Data Brain Splurge
- Further adventures in SPARQL
RingingMapping the changes- The postcode – freed!
- Postcode to councillor in one easy step!
- Royal Fail Part 3: Response received (and it ain’t good)
- Open postcodes – my letter to the FT
- An iPhone app in 5 days?
- Fixmytweet!
- Twitter – to RSS or not RSS?
- Theunis Viljoen: Although some Councils have already started to publish details of payments to suppliers over £500, there is obviously a reticense to develop costly r
- Richard: Hi There! This is a fantastic tool! One question about it. How did you calculate the lon/lat before you imported it into the MySQL database? I noticed
- SPEED DATA: Ideas for local government spending transparency « The Dan Slee Blog: [...] Pezholio blog on the SOCITM Birmingham local data event. A useful summary and some very useful comments. [...]
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- @siwhitehouse It's now been removed :( Funnily enough, not long after Woolies went under. in reply to siwhitehouse 2 days ago
- @siwhitehouse We had our own M Khan in Lichfield. There was graffitti saying "Lisa Moore is a Slag" for at least 20 years behind Woolies. in reply to siwhitehouse 2 days ago
- @DStuart My thoughts exactly :) in reply to DStuart 2 days ago
- Floor is laid! The door strip did end up in the bin at one point though :( 2 days ago
- @understood I know what you mean, but that's politics unfortunately :( It's getting better though! in reply to understood 2 days ago
- More updates...
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