I wonder if they would have data relating to on-street-parking restrictions?
Steve
On 23/05/2011 14:53, Gregory Williams wrote:
Not strictly an OSM thing, but I'd also like to see traffic count data
released by KCC too.
Gregory
*From:*Gregory Williams
[mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* 23 May 2011 10:56
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [Talk-GB] Kent Open Data, KCC
Based upon previous discussions with KCC with my cycle campaigning hat
on the cycle parking data that KCC hold is far from exhaustive. Also
it's of the form "outside shop xyz, Some Road, Some Place". So, apart
from giving us clues of places to go out and look for cycle parking we
haven't mapped yet, it's not terribly useful. Luckily, as far as
things go, I think I've mapped pretty much all of the cycle parking in
East Kent and quite a bit elsewhere in the county, as is shown on the
cycle parking heat map I maintain:
http://www.spokeseastkent.org.uk/maps/cycle-parking-heat-map/?zoom=10&lat=51.14048&lon=0.63703&layers=BT
<http://www.spokeseastkent.org.uk/maps/cycle-parking-heat-map/?zoom=10&lat=51.14048&lon=0.63703&layers=BT>
I would be very interested in whether KCC are able to release data
about maximum speed limits and traffic calming measures in a form that
OSM is able to use. My personal preference would be to use this as
something to compare against, such that we can assess where our own
data isn't complete, rather than as something that would be imported.
Gregory
*From:*Tom Chance [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* 22 May 2011 11:28
*To:* TimSC
*Cc:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [Talk-GB] Kent Open Data, KCC
Tim,
You might like to ask them to provide you with a list of geodata they
hold and that they can release (under the PSMA) without any
restrictions. I got such a list off Southwark Council and it gave me a
few ideas of data that would be useful including trees and cycle
parking stands.
Tom
On 22 May 2011 11:11, TimSC <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi all,
I met people from Kent's OpenKent, which is a county council open data
initiative [1][2]. They explained their work and I told them about
openstreetmap and its community. They said Kent is not as well
developed in open data as some councils but they have a long term
commitment to improvement. They have some data sets available but they
seem to be mainly concerned with expenses, census data and school
expenditure so far. They said they are seeking ideas of what data to
publish because they need to prioritize their effort in getting the
data for which there is a public demand. If you have ideas, I suggest
you get in touch. I expect other councils have already done stuff
that's interesting and it might be worth making them aware. They also
plan to showcase interesting data visualisations based on their data
or any Kent related data. It might be good to get publicity for small
projects. OpenKent is also seeking ideas and feedback for a (web
based?) data visualisation tool they are planning to help the
(non-technical) public use the data.
I tried to think of data that would be useful to mappers. Obviously
the rights of way data would be amazing. The council also holds the
parish boundaries data. Some government data sets use parish and
electoral boundaries as their areas, so that would be useful to do
visualisations. Also the Kent Heritage Tree Project [3] might like the
parish boundaries, as apparently many old trees are on or near these
boundaries. Having lists of public institutions, possibly with
addresses, would be great to validate the OSM database. We can quickly
find any schools, public services that we missed. I suspect we will
avoid doing imports of data which is not really GIS but we might add
data to OSM to make visualisations and mash ups easier (machine tags
and data to link to their database rows).
Again, they said they would appreciate any ideas. I talked to Noel
Hatch and Matthew Kerr. Get in touch with them. :)
Regards,
TimSC
[1] http://www.kent.gov.uk/your_council/open_data.aspx
[2] http://openkent.blogspot.com/
[3] http://kentheritagetrees.btcv.org.uk/
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