Yay for Wansbeck
Written on March 29, 2007
Wansbeck, which I shamefully have to admit I didn’t know existed until a couple of days ago, gets a special star for being the first council to offer up their planning data in an open machine readable format.
They contacted us totally out of the blue with data in the correct format all queryable by date
Filed in: Civic Hacking, planning.
[…] One of the google workers who was looking after us for the day (googlers apparently) said that one of the great things about working at google is the number of unofficial, experimental mashups and xml feeds flying about, from which great things bloom. If all government departments did what the John and the ODSP and Wansbeck Councilhave done, it could be the same in UK government. […]