An Open Data Startup
In that intense start up haze we occupy, the fact that OpenSensors has turned 1 this month completely passed me by! I feel that occasion should be marked with at least a post to reflect on how far we have come in a …
In that intense start up haze we occupy, the fact that OpenSensors has turned 1 this month completely passed me by! I feel that occasion should be marked with at least a post to reflect on how far we have come in a …
I shipped a location-aware HTML5 app that helps people pee. You should be impressed. BANES council just released data on the 18 public toilets that adorn our area as part of a government breakthrough fund. I was itching to use …
By Joel Gurin Start a business. Manage your power use. Find cheap rents, or avoid crime-ridden neighborhoods. Cities and their citizens worldwide are discovering the power of “open data”–public data and information available from government and other sources that can …
Summary: How open is budget data in Croatia and has the level of openness improved over the past year? These are the key questions explored in a new paper published by the Institute of Public Finance, which analyses the budget data …
In my previous post about aerial photography, I explained that our aerial photography provider, Blom Aerofilm, flew the whole of Hampshire over the Summer of 2013 and captured high resolution imagery and data. Last time, I said that the Hampshire …
Hampshire publishes Aerial Photography as open data (finally!) Read more »
It looks like Bath has an open data initiative. Nobody is more shocked than me. A few weeks ago the open data group I got involved with held its first hack and despite my initial nerves, I’m delighted to say …
Architecting Internet of Things Software for Cities We are often asked to advise on how best to build scalable products for the Internet of Things, specifically to provide City wide services. City scale projects, also marketed as Smart or Future …
I have a development harness for my Clojure systems called Jig. Jig has a feature that allows me to teardown and reinitialize the entire state of the system, while loading in any code that has changed since the last reset. …
We were honored to be a platform partner and host the data for The Future Cities Hackathon: Open Urban Data for The Citizens a collaborative project by Data Science London during the weekend of the 5th – 6th of October. …
Opensensors.IO is a project by Atomic Data Labs built to simplify large scale publishing and subscribing of device data. We want to make available, under open data licences, the real time and historical data generated by devices all around us. …