We will keep developing the theme of taking #OpenData the “Last Mile”, meaning to users and researchers who otherwise wouldn’t know how to access or use it. The Sunlight Foundation is doing a great job of going the Last Mile …

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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. …

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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. …

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It’s over a year since we put time aside to create our first little open data app and what started as a hacked solution to a personal problem has turned into a popular local resource. The Bath Schools Mashup has …

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As part of ongoing efforts for the England Cycling Data project, we’ve been keen to get visualisations done, to show the extent of the data and to show where merging needs to be done. Shaun from ITOworld – who are experts …

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The England Cycling Data project aims to incorporate open data on cycling infrastructure released by the UK’s Department for Transport into OpenStreetMap. We’ve started taking account of a greater range of information about cycle routes in OpenStreetMap (the project from …

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If you’re in Cambridge on Thursday, come and hear about CycleStreets behind the scenes, organised by BCS East Anglia! Location: Red Gate Software, 12 Cambridge Business Park, CB4 0WZ  [Cycle there – directions] Date and time: 6:30pm – 8pm, Thursday, 26th April, 2012 The event …

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We’re pleased to launch today a new resource for the cycling community: a browsable, searchable collision map with complete details of every reported road collision involving cyclists in the UK since 2005. This will also be integrated into our new …

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Publishing data is a start, and publishing it in a common standard that others can understand and re-use is the next step; but wouldn’t it be even more useful if you could see correlations between seemingly unrelated sets of data? …

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