This may have been suggested before, but has anyone investigated doing an online directory of Common Land (and Village Greens). It would probably be a fairly meaty project -- the data is maintained by the councils (though not available online), and also there's aggregated data that's available only through a very bad map (with all sorts of reuse restrictions at):
http://www.openaccess.gov.uk/S4/html/LWWCM/Section4/GeneralContent/MappingAccessLand.html There's also an organisation of the people that maintain the register at: http://www.acraew.org.uk/ Two obvious approaches: 1) Go after the data held by Natural England and get it freed up, by pressure of govt/politicians, FoI requests or reverse engineering the openaccess.gov.uk data (this may be problematic as the map data is probably tied up with the OS-nonsense) 2) Crowd source getting the info from councils I've got my hands full with OpenlyLocal.com at the moment, but would love to see this info freed up (and would provide server space if it helped). Any takers? C _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
