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Open data and all that
Local info
- Open Election Data project
- Full List of UK Local Authorities
- OpenlyLocal Hyperlocal directory
- UK councils open data scoreboard
- Council spending data
- OpenlyLocal :: Freeing up local data
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Sites we like
- The Public Whip
- They Work For You New Zealand
- They Work For You
- Open Knowledge Foundation
- OpenCharities
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Recent Posts
- OpenlyLocal (finally) gets its own blog
- How to help build the UK’s open planning database: writing scrapers
- Planning Alerts: first fruits
- An open letter to Vince Cable
- Wanted: Ruby programmer who loves to work with open data
OpenlyLocal tweets
- RT @inglesp: Come and work with me! Looking for a #ruby dev to work at @opencorporates. Please RT! blog.opencorporates.com/2014/10/21/wer… 1 year ago
- RT @opencorporates: .@SpendNetwork & @CfEntrepreneurs use our data to reveal UK Councils spend as little as 4% with SMEs #opengov http://t.… 2 years ago
CountCulture tweets
- Love this platform for #uk grant #opendata grantnav.threesixtygiving.org 180k grants, searchable, browsable, open 22 hours ago
- RT @opencorporates: We've now got over 110 million companies on OpenCorporates.com. 110, 008, 914 companies to be exact. Go exploring!… 2 weeks ago
- RT @opencorporates: 120 000 companies from #Slovakia have been added to OpenCorporates making it our 116th jurisdiction https://t.co/JISa8h… 2 weeks ago
- RT @YourCodship: .@PrivateEyeNews story exposing serious flaws of new UK register of co' ownership impossible w/o @opencorporates API https… 4 weeks ago
- RT @opencorporates: Passionate about fighting corruption? Like #opendata? We're hiring a Project Coordinator to join our pilot team. https:… 1 month ago
UK Hyperlocal Directory: Latest Entries
- Archiving sitesWhen we rebuilt the openly local map we knew that there were hundreds of hyperlocal sites, Facebook pages and Twitter accounts out there that weren’t on the map. And that the map database contained hundreds of sites that had ceased publishing as natural wastage since 2009 in a fast moving sector where people are testing … Continue reading Archiving sites […]
- Devon and Somerset – putting about 100 hyperlocal sites on the mapThe old OpenlyLocal map only had about 5 sites for Devon, mainly the defunct ‘Local People’ franchise. This couldn’t be right for England’s second largest county. Devon has a strong tradition of local pride in place and its rural nature meant there are obvious advantages to having websites for local civic life. As well as a … Continue reading Devon and Somer […]
- Finding Scottish hyperlocalsLiving and working in rural Aberdeenshire, where I run my own hyperlocal site, I am the official Scottish correspondent for Talk About Local. Following on from Will’s post about filling in the white space around Wakefield on the Local Web List map I thought I’d share my experiences adding in sites from Scotland. Way back … Continue reading Finding Scottish h […]
- Updated SearchWe’ve updated the search on the site so it includes meta data. WordPress doesn’t search this data, tags & categories, out of the box so we’ve added it in. So if you want to search for sites built on a certain platform type the platform in to the search box and hit enter, the same … Continue reading Updated Search
- How to approach white spaces in the #hyperlocal map – Wakefield experimentCarnegie UK Trust is supporting Talk About Local in improving the map of UK hyperlocal sites. Despite having hundreds of entries, the map when we rehosted it had some curious white spaces – it can’t be right that Devon only had five sites listed nor that towns such as Wakefield had none, nor Scotland about … Continue reading How to approach white spaces in […]
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