2009/3/17 Peter Miller <[email protected]>: > Here is some interesting data for traffic incidents involving bicycles for > 2005/6/7 (published 10th March 2009) - 16,000 entries for 2005. > http://innovate.direct.gov.uk/2009/03/10/pedalling-some-raw-data/ > > And here is someone publishing a KML version of the same data the following > day > http://scraplab.net/2009/03/11/pedal-cycle-incident-data-in-kml.html > > This particular data may not be directly of relevance to the core OSM > product or possibly it is? Certainly it is relevant to cycle journey > planners.
Arguable. My statistics-hat would suggest that without baseline cycle traffic information you can't infer much from the locations of accidents other than 'accidents occurred here'. But it's still interesting data. > It is also possibly a sign that the UK government is getting used > to the idea of releasing raw data. Here's hoping. I can think of many well-intentioned projects that still can only think along information-portal lines, so hopefully more will think along data-release lines in future. But to do so, it would help if there were more hackers around making "cool" and eyecatching things with these datasets (see also TfL last week). Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
