Hi Frankie, Why not add postcode lookup using ernestmarples.com? :)
Harry On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 14:02 +0100, CountCulture wrote: > Frankie > Can't speak to the question of myCivicSociety, but like the > openplaques stuff. Will probably add some of the data to > OpenlyLocal.com (formerly TheyWorkForyouLocal.com) if that's OK (see > you have XML/json interface), as many of them seem to be councils. > C > > Frankie Roberto wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've been running a side-project called Open Plaques > > (http://www.openplaques.org/), which aims to collect data on and > > index all of the UK's (and possibly eventually the world's) plaques. > > It's still early days, but we've got some nice integration with > > Flickr going on (see > > http://code.flickr.com/blog/2009/07/06/extraextraextra/), and 1634 > > plaques already catalogued. > > > > The thing that I've soon learnt is that it's not just English > > Heritage who put up plaques, oh no - they only cover London. Instead > > there are dozens and dozens of organisations that have at some point > > or another decided to commemorated something by concreting a plaque > > to a wall. See http://www.openplaques.org/organisations for the list > > of organisations we've got data from so far. > > > > Whilst some of these are local councils and special interest groups > > (eg the Max Miller Appreciation Society), many of them are "Civic > > Societies". There seems to be a decent list of these here: > > http://www.civicsocieties.org.uk/societies, but very little > > indication online of what these societies do (their websites are > > typically pretty poor). > > > > I wondered whether there'd be any scope in producing a kind of > > myCivicSociety, which might make these organisations a bit more > > well-known, transparent, and accessible? > > > > Frankie > > > > -- > > Frankie Roberto > > Experience Designer, Rattle > > 0114 2706977 > > http://www.rattlecentral.com > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list [email protected] > > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
