Have a look at what Ben Harris has done for Cambridge to give you an idea of the scale of the problem: <<http://bjh21.me.uk/traffic/>>
I think he had to inspect quite a few of the Orders in person at council offices, and many of the TMO's refer to an OS map in the Schedule. His FOI requests: <<http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/user/ben_harris>> Not all councils are responsible for producing these, so any WhatDoTheyKnow interface will need to be planned carefully to ensure the right authorities are asked. Cheers Alex - WhatDoTheyKnow.com volunteer [email protected] [NB: subscribed to this list via my personal email address] On 17 February 2011 17:47, Nick Leaton <[email protected]> wrote: > I've a FOI request in to a council for its Traffic Management Orders. > > These are the documents that the council needs to have in place in > order to enforce parking restrictions. > > Clearly its useful information, and for individuals to request from > one council doesn't really get them into the public domain in a > searchable form. > > What's needed is the ability to submit to all councils, and then > periodically for updates, and to centralise the publication. > > A similar sort of document would be a list, and preferably a GIS of > conservation areas. > > I suspect there are some other similarly types of requests where you > want to bulk FOI councils, or groups of organisations. > > Since you don't want abuses of an FOI system, you probably want some > sort of vetting, but it would always be open for > someone to mash up an interface to whatdotheknow. > > Viable or not? > > -- > Nick > > _______________________________________________ > developers-public mailing list > [email protected] > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > Unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/alex%40alexskene.com > _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
