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March 29 2012, 9.48AM

How to help build the UK’s open planning database: writing scrapers

This post is by Andrew Speakman, who’s coordinating OpenlyLocal’s planning application work. As Chris wrote in his last post announcing...
March 23 2012, 10.09AM

Planning Alerts: first fruits

Well, that took a little longer than planned… [I won't go into the details, but suffice to say our internal deadline got squeezed between the...
November 11 2011, 12.21PM

Wanted: Ruby programmer who loves to work with open data

As you may have read from our previous post, OpenlyLocal is taking over PlanningAlerts.com to enable this valuable service not just to continue, bu...

Openly Local is a new project to develop an open and unified way of accessing Local Government information.

So far we have opened up data for over 140 local authorities, and more are being added every week, with more information being opened up too.

We currently have information on:

  • 163 councils
  • 11,899 councillors
  • 6,961 committees
  • 88,609 committee meetings

Most of the data is accessible as XML or json data through a simple API (basically add .xml or .json to the main part of the URL). There is also a Google Gadget, an app for Hyperlocal sites using Ning, and a simple javascript widget