Comments on: How to help build the UK’s open planning database: writing scrapers http://countculture.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/how-to-help-build-the-uks-open-planning-database-writing-scrapers/ Open data and all that Fri, 03 May 2013 02:37:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Andrew http://countculture.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/how-to-help-build-the-uks-open-planning-database-writing-scrapers/#comment-1067 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:43:08 +0000 http://countculture.wordpress.com/?p=679#comment-1067 In the meantime you can get access to New Forest District and National Park applications via my map interface here https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/planning_map/?db=South+East.

]]> By: countculture http://countculture.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/how-to-help-build-the-uks-open-planning-database-writing-scrapers/#comment-1065 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:01:41 +0000 http://countculture.wordpress.com/?p=679#comment-1065 Not yet. We haven’t ruled it out, but want to get the councils tackled first.

]]> By: Chunter http://countculture.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/how-to-help-build-the-uks-open-planning-database-writing-scrapers/#comment-1064 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:26:25 +0000 http://countculture.wordpress.com/?p=679#comment-1064 Are there any plans to include, for example, the New Forest National Park Authority? The ‘New Forest’ site now being scraped is the district council’s.

]]> By: Andrew http://countculture.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/how-to-help-build-the-uks-open-planning-database-writing-scrapers/#comment-1062 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 17:21:26 +0000 http://countculture.wordpress.com/?p=679#comment-1062 Hi – Stoke on Trent planning applications are (at last) being scraped onto Openly Local

Here’s the link

http://openlylocal.com/councils/96/planning_applications

]]> By: James Berry http://countculture.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/how-to-help-build-the-uks-open-planning-database-writing-scrapers/#comment-1061 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:17:33 +0000 http://countculture.wordpress.com/?p=679#comment-1061 Spectacular!

]]> By: Andrew http://countculture.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/how-to-help-build-the-uks-open-planning-database-writing-scrapers/#comment-1060 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 09:39:32 +0000 http://countculture.wordpress.com/?p=679#comment-1060 Sorry for the delay – but at last Canterbury planning applications are now active on Openly Local

Here’s the link:

http://openlylocal.com/councils/48/planning_applications

]]> By: Andrew http://countculture.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/how-to-help-build-the-uks-open-planning-database-writing-scrapers/#comment-1042 Thu, 31 May 2012 06:39:27 +0000 http://countculture.wordpress.com/?p=679#comment-1042 Sorry James we are still doing preparatory work on the AcolNet implementation

In the meanwhile if you want basic information on the most recent Canterbury applications then they are available via this scraperwiki interface:

https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/planning_map/?db=South+East&auth=Canterbury&max=200

Similarly Stoke on Trent applications are here:

https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/planning_map/?db=West+Midlands&auth=Stoke+on+Trent&max=200

]]> By: James Berry http://countculture.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/how-to-help-build-the-uks-open-planning-database-writing-scrapers/#comment-1040 Tue, 29 May 2012 09:36:45 +0000 http://countculture.wordpress.com/?p=679#comment-1040 I’ll leave it to you guys to do it internally then – any progress?

]]> By: adamjennison111 http://countculture.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/how-to-help-build-the-uks-open-planning-database-writing-scrapers/#comment-1029 Fri, 11 May 2012 10:15:43 +0000 http://countculture.wordpress.com/?p=679#comment-1029 Thanks Andrew, it was after posting that I RTFM and spotted the spreadsheet..! :-)
I ask because I work in Hull City Council and am looking at Open Data.

I find it incredulous that the planning systems that are open, such as our’s and our neighbors – the East Riding of Yorkshire, are so poor when it comes to providing data that is machine readable. Not even an RSS feed!??

I am looking to wrap some our systems in APIs that can provide data in better format, and in this case I would suggest even a little, with a link to the systems content, will be better than nothing.

I started to write a scraper for the IDOx system (open scraper wiki) as I want to create a hyperlocal blog but found the Openlocaly site and paused to see what was happening.

I would rather that the data, which is already in the public sphere, be open for all – not just eyes!

I am looking to use persistent URIs and a datastore to hold the information, but we are in the early stages of planning our OpenData thoughts.. so any comments are greedily accepted, it would be good to be led by developer needs rather than some internal ‘direction’.. :-)

]]> By: Andrew http://countculture.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/how-to-help-build-the-uks-open-planning-database-writing-scrapers/#comment-1028 Fri, 11 May 2012 08:11:27 +0000 http://countculture.wordpress.com/?p=679#comment-1028 Stoke on Trent is also an AcolNet system so it’s one of more than 30 similar UK systems we have to crack. and the comments above about Canterbury apply here too.

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