From: Jack Townsend <[email protected]>
A big response from everyone on demand for UK flooding data. Couldn't be
more topical! Have passed on to the Cabinet Office, and summarised here.
Jack
- Nick Barnes, of climate code foundation and flooding victim who wrote
a blog post on this
http://climatecode.org/blog/2014/02/river-level-data-must-be-open/
- London open data/big data startup Mastodon C<http://www.mastodonc.com/>
want
flood data to combine with other city data that they are integrating on
their platforms and selling to city and other governments, policy makers,
developers and consultants. We are using this data to calculate a number of
scores for places such as social cohesion and sustainability. These can
then support planning decisions such house building and emergency response.
- The Oxford Flood Network are keen to have better access to data so
they can build useful software for a flood-prone town as at the recent
*SusHack* <http://www.sushack.co.uk/> event. James Smith <
[email protected]>
- Gamification of behaviour change app for climate adaptation using
flood data, produced at recent Cleanweb Rome hackathon by Cleanweb Scotland
lead Rory Gianni. He explains it
here<https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=506699252781655&set=vb.271915992926650&type=3&theater>
.
- Rory was also looking for river level data to include it in a project
for OpenGlasgow initiative <http://open.glasgow.gov.uk/>. They want to
build a customisable dashboard of widgets which show a bunch of different
things about the city.
- April Hack the Town Hackathon
http://hackathoncentral.com/winners_spring_2013/ on flooding, disaster
and emergency preparedness and response by residents and local government
Sat/Sun 19-20 April,
Begins 09.00 Sat, ends 17.30 Sun
Google Campus
4/5 Bonhill Street
London EC2A 4BX
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