Hi All, Good news on the local council front. Lambeth council is looking to open up all (excluding confidential data) the data they hold [1]. This is fantastic news and somthing other councils should try to follow. They know that this will be a big task so are looking for people to send in requests so that they can prioritise which data gets released first.
As they are an Inner London council, they are not required to hold data on public rights of way. However, a quick look on their site indicates that they already have some location data available under the free Open Government Licence [2]. Looks like a mashup map has been produced [3] and blogged about [4]. As always Import into OSM should be handled with care. In this case I would expect some/much (?) of the data to already exist in OSM and therefore we could use Lambeth's data as a tool to check if we have anything missing before completing a ground survey to confirm the details. Regards, RobJN p.s. Thanks to Andrew for bringing this to my attention on his blog http://take21.org/blog/ [1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/government-computing-network/2012/jul/11/lambeth-council-open-data-pledge [2] http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/Services/CouncilDemocracy/DataProtectionFOI/OpenData.htm?sp=opendata [3] http://goodfornothing.com/gigs/lambeth/maps/ [4] http://lambethopendata.wordpress.com/open-data-discussion/
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