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Exploring 'Rivers of Data'

Posted by: dataenvagency, Posted on: 27 March 2015 - Categories: Defra digital, Open data

This week saw the beta release of the Environment Agency's flood data APIs and 4 new open data products from Ordnance Survey including the detailed OS Open Map - Local and the new OS Open Rivers network data. Alex Coley's …

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Near Real Time 'Flood Data' API

Posted by: dataenvagency, Posted on: 24 March 2015 - Categories: Open data

Open 'Flood' Data Last year the Environment Agency increased its publication of Open Data.  In the first instance, and in response to the extreme flooding episodes of the 2013/14 winter, this included access to flood warnings, flood alerts and river …

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Rivers of data

Posted by: Alexander Coley, Posted on: 23 March 2015 - Categories: Defra digital, Open data

...api. Joining things up I’m looking forward to exploring the potential as to how this data can be used together. There are lots of opportunities to make interesting investigations into...

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Open Data & Transparency... How do you make it happen?

Posted by: Andrew Newman, Posted on: 23 March 2015 - Categories: Open data

Releasing public sector data as Open Data is a top government priority, as is being transparent about the work we do and the data we collect. But how do we make these things happen? What do we need to consider? …

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George Orwell and keeping active

Posted by: ronanfitzgerald, Posted on: 12 March 2015 - Categories: Defra digital

When we're writing for GOV.UK, we use the active voice, but a lot of the source content we're rewriting uses the passive voice. This is one of the most significant differences in style between Smarter Guidance content on GOV.UK and …

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