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The launch of data.police.uk
Today, we are delighted to announce the launch of our new ‘hub’ for all of our open data – data.police.uk. Following best practice and principles set out by the Open Data Institute, we’ve made a number of improvements to the …
UK INSPIRE Monitoring Report
The INSPIRE Directive requires each EU Member State to submit an annual INSPIRE Monitoring Indicators Report. Member States are also required to publish the monitoring report. Every three years, from 2010 Member States must also submit a written report on …
How would you identify ‘core’ departmental data?
This has been a busy couple of weeks for the Transparency Team in the Cabinet Office. On Tuesday we had the announcement of an international open data charter which saw members of the G8 sign up to orient themselves towards open data by default.
Monetising Geospatial Values and Practices
The Geospatial World Forum in Rotterdam (11-16 May 2013) carried the theme ‘Monetising Geospatial Values and Practices’. The theme conjures images of geospatial specialists hunched over their workstations trying to encode complex economic calculations and computations that can help them …
Developing a National Core Reference Data Set
Today was a big day for open data in the UK with the publication of Stephan Shakespeare’s Independent Review of Public Sector Information. Of course the Government will be responding formally to the review over the next couple of months but …
Healthy Cities- The Big Data Week challenge
Of all the talks I’ve attended recently, @GescheSchmid summed up what big data means to me when she said “Visualise the data, make it understandable to citizens so they can engage with it”.
Police.uk - Engaging with you
It’s now over two years since we launched street-level crime mapping on police.uk. The public response has been, and continues to be, phenomenal. Since launching in January 2011,police.uk has had nearly 550 million hits (just short of 54 million visits), with the …
INSPIRE Annex III Priorities
Public bodies are facing the most challenging INSPIRE deadline yet: by December any dataset within scope of INSPIRE must be published in its current form with a view service and a download service. INSPIRE requires public bodies to publish spatial …
OGP UK National Action Plan Self-Assessment Report
Today, almost two years since the UK’s initial involvement and the official launch of the OGP in New York, we are publishing the self-assessment report on the UK National Action Plan, originally published in September 2011.
Don't sell our postcodes! ODUG on why we should have Open Addressing in the UK
Don’t sell our postcodes! Why we should have Open Addressing in the UKOpen Data User Group Response to the Ofcom Postcode Address File (PAF) Consultation
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