That looks like useful data. It looks to me like Edinburgh are not quite
embracing open data - the terms and conditions for the entire web site
is for "personal and non-commercial" use only. I stumbled on this recently:
http://openlylocal.com/councils/open
This list the councils that "do" open data. If this was promote it and
re-visualise it (with a heat map or other display), it might encourage
councils to be more open. Perhaps you shouldn't listen to me though in
influencing institutions - my track record is not great! Anyone else
have a more informed opinion?
Regards,
Tim
On 07/06/11 15:15, Bob Kerr wrote:
Hi,
In Edinburgh the list of public roads is available here
http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/info/177/register_of_public_roads/865/public_roads_in_edinburgh
The reason that I refer to this is that the Data from OS is not as
accurate or up to date as this data. There is also some roads that are
not named. I know from experience that the OS data is not fully
correct and neither is OSM data. However as we are correcting the
roads in edinburgh, this gets filtered back to OS which in turn goes
to ITO and eventually we will all have the same correct data, It will
take some time. We also have very few surveyors.
My point though is that we do have some data available from the
council, and if we can create a heat map that shows which councils are
releasing data then it may encourage others to do the same. My
question is would it be worthwhile doing.
Cheers
bob
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