AllForGood: Doing good with public data
AllForGood is a directory of volunteer activities in the US. It’s a database that lets you search for all kinds of volunteering opportunities based on keywords and topics. The site does a few things, it allows you to; Find volunteer activities near you. Share volunteer activities with your friends. See what your friends are interested [...]
Great Use of Data Part 2: TrainTimes.org.uk
This is part of our ‘Great use of Data’ series in which we explore projects and applications that use data in new and existing ways. Who is behind? TrainTimes.org uk is the project of Mathew Somerville, a Birmingham based data developer frequently involved with the projects ran by MySociety.org. This project was one made for [...]
Great Use of Data Part 1: MySociety.org
This is part of our ‘Great use of Data’ series in which we explore projects and applications that use data in new and existing ways. Who are they? MySociety is a not-for-profit company based on a charity. They take public information and makes it accessible and understandable for the average citizen. What do they do? [...]
Open Street map at a very local level
The first person to really talk me through Open Street Map was Rob Annable. He showed me this version – which adds layers of local information for a neighbourhood, in this case Sutton Green in Surrey. I love the way you can use the map depending on the layers of information you want/need. Looking for [...]
How Leicester Police might have created their helicopter map
Yesterday, people on twitter noticed how Leicester Police is using a Google maps mashup, to display recorded incidents of helicopter usage in the city. The map includes incidents from the last three months, no say about whether this will change or not. You can browse through the incidents based on where and when they happened. [...]
