PlannignAlerts data released
Written on April 9, 2007
The raw data from PlanningAlerts.com is now available for download. Currently deciding on the best way to license it.
Decided on a Creative Commons License. I’ve also added loads more geoRSS api calls for people to play with.
Filed in: Civic Hacking, data, planning.
I have received a planning alert for a planning application from your site – a small scale, back street residential type thing, and thanks for that. There is, however a much larger operation going on in Lewisham – the Lewisham Gateway – that has just re-submitted planning documents. Shouldn’t this be part of an alert scheme such as your valuable resource?
Hi Richard,
Have the Lewisham Gateway had to submit a new application with the documents? If so we should be catching this, unfortunately we are held back by what data councils publish, and the format they publish it in. So if it has been resubmitted under some other route then it is harder for us to catch.
If it isn’t not your data, (which it doesn’t appear to be) is the decision on how to licence it entirely up to you?
A.
Aled, a fair point, but PlanningAlerts claims copyright on the IP rights present in this dataset including, for example, any Database rights. i.e. on the effort that has gone into generating, cleaning and republishing the dataset in a usable form.
We are also trying to lead by example, we want local government to consider putting similar licenses on their data.