In March, a small milestone went largely unnoticed. The UK Open Data movement was 10 years old. It has been a privilege and an honour to be a part of the movement within Government during this time. At the end …
The following case study from Mike Williams, Data Research Consultant at Landmark Information group, shows how Defra's open data is being provided as a service alongside environmental expertise, to advise developers on the suitability of land for development. With the Government Digital Service …
The JNCC Technical Skills Framework – a strategic approach to training The majority of staff at the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) are scientists. We also have a dedicated technical development team but how do we know that we have …
Last week (21 April) the World Wide Web Foundation published the results of its Open Data Barometer, which showed that the UK remains at number one in the world. The barometer compares a number of measures to judge how well …
This week we’ve released our water quality archive as open data (you can find it all here on data.gov.uk). The archive provides data on the quality of rivers, lakes and estuaries. There are a staggering 58 million measurements and 4 …
April is a busy month in our open data journey, as we make a number of significant flood-related datasets open including: Flood Map for Planning Areas that benefit from flood defences Flood storage areas Flood zones Spatial flood defences (without standardised …
Natural England has released its 1000 open datasets three months earlier than the June target set by Elizabeth Truss MP. This important milestone forms part of the total of 8000 promised by the Defra group to the Secretary of State …
You may know that Defra and Environment Agency have been involved with this year’s Geovation Challenge which the Secretary of State, Liz Truss MP, announced in her speech at the open environment launch. Geovation is all about promoting innovation in …
In September 2015 we made our extensive archive of LIDAR digital elevation models (DTM – digital terrain models; and DSM – digital surface models) covering over three quarters of England, available as open data. Since then, businesses, local communities and …
You may well know that the Defra family, including its arms’-length bodies, holds a vast treasure trove of data. The goal of the Department is to make all non-personal data it holds available as open data – data anyone can access, …
