As a test I have just put in a quick FOI request for the GIS files which cover my mapping area (3), I will keep you updated on their response.
George 2009/7/9 CountCulture <[email protected]>: > 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 > -- "If a man neglects to enforce his rights, he cannot complain if, after a while, the law follows his example." —Oliver Wendell Holmes http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2373/2373-h/2373-h.htm _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
