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Welcome to the OpenSpace wiki. The wiki has been created to help you during the development of your OS OpenSpace Application. OS OpenSpace allows Ordnance Survey Mapping to be displayed in your Web Page, below you will find a simple example of this.

SMW+ is a semantic enterprise Wiki for teams that need a human-readable and agile knowledge base for collaborating on rich text and data in their daily work.

ScraperWiki is an online tool to make that process simpler and more collaborative. Anyone can write a screen scraper using the online editor, and the code and data are shared with the world. Because it's a wiki, other programmers can contribute to and improve the code. And, if you're not a programmer yourself, you can request a scraper or ask the ScraperWiki team to write one for you.

Welcome to the wiki on winning the argument for localgov data.

Having trouble persuading your managers of the benefits of open data? Or just need persuading yourself? Well here we try convincing all of you. What follows is a Q&A compiled initially by Dan Slee of Walsall Council and Stuart Harrison of Lichfield District Council. The first part is a bit of background information, the second part comprises some responses to common arguments. This work is ongoing, and this page will occasionally be updated accordingly. You can watch and contribute on the Open Local Data wiki

Well done on spotting this update Steve. Every time I read these principles, they make so much sense.

"Public Data" is the objective, factual, non-personal data on which public services run and are assessed, and on which policy decisions are based, or which is collected or generated in the course of public service delivery.

Open Gov Data principles: Complete, Primary, Timely, Accessible, Machine Processable, Non-discriminatory, non-proprietary, Licence free