Flexible open geographies workshop
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This document summarizes a meeting to discuss the Flexible Open Geographies (FOG) project. The FOG project aims to (1) allow publishing and hierarchical definition of non-official geographical areas as open data, (2) apply this to any area in England beyond single local authorities, and (3) provide APIs and sample applications for querying metrics for these flexible areas. The meeting involved reviewing lessons from the Natural Neighbourhoods project, demonstrating a FOG beta application, and discussing next steps to finalize the FOG deliverables and ensure they meet intended users' needs.
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- 1. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus Flexible Open Geographies (FOG) learning from Natural Neighbourhoods 28 January 2015
- 2. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus Agenda 1. Introduction 1. Purpose of the session 2. Who is here? 3. From Natural neighbourhoods 4. Lessons learned 5. FOG deliverables in brief 2. What do we want? 1. Cheshire East and its sub-region 2. Everyone 3. Review of beta with respect to needs for: 1. Reporting metrics 2. URIs and Linked Data 4. Next steps
- 3. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus 1.1 Purpose and introductions To ensure the Open Data Breakthrough fund deliverable is fit for its intended audiences: The project will deliver a tool to publish non-official geographical areas individually and in hierarchies as open data with Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) associated with their shapes and other properties. – Extend the idea of Natural Neighbourhoods – Apply to any area across England, not just within a local authority – Permit hierarchies of areas (eg areas within districts) – Provide a search facility and API that provides the hierarchies of geographical areas that enclose a given point – Be published as an open source application that will: • Allow display and definition of geographies over an Open Street Map map and as text • Render neighbourhoods as URIs that resolve to HTML, RDF-XML and other formats with KML boundaries • Aggregate a selection of open public data metrics and express it for neighbourhoods • Allow upload of open data for areas that make up neighbourhoods • Provide a query tool and API for querying metrics pertaining to neighbourhoods
- 4. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus 1.2 Who is here? Andy Dom Francis Gesche Jonathan Leigh Mike Nicki Phil Tim Representing: – People wishing to report across non-standard areas – Developers, open data and linked data users
- 5. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus 1.3 From Natural Neighbourhoods 474 neighbourhoods of137 neighbourhood types
- 6. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus 1.4 Lessons learned from NN Need: 1. areas spanning multiple local authorities 2. areas not co-terminal with OAs 3. to distinguish between area types and groups of areas 4. hierarchies of areas 5. to help developers use the areas
- 7. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus 1.4a Hierarchies of areasCountry Region Unitary and county Unitary and district Unitary DistrictCounty Ward MLSOA LSOA OA Country Official Partnership, CTG, Town centre, ... Community network areas Community impact mitigation areas Natural neighbourhood CTG Sub- region CHP region CCG Flood plains CHP region FOG extension
- 8. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus 1.4b Bounded comparison groups Areas of one type within an area
- 9. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus 1.5 FOG deliverables MetricsArea types Areas Country Region Sub-region District/unitary Town centre Population Crime Employment Road safety Footfall England North West Cheshire & Warrington Cheshire East Crewe API Sample applications
- 10. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus 2. What do we want to achieve • Cheshire East and its sub-region • Everyone else
- 11. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus 3. Review of beta application • Area types eg Sub-region • Areas eg Cheshire and Warrington • Metrics download and upload • API and sample applications: – Table example – Chart example – Map example – Areas around a point eg: Eastbourne, Crewe
- 12. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus 3a Meeting the need 1. Defining areas 1. Ways of avoiding junk data 2. Security of adding/updating and linking to 3. How new root areas are defined (KML) 4. Documents and links 5. “Covers whole area” and “primary area” properties 2. Reporting metrics 1. Uploaded vs aggregated metrics (for and from what area types?) 2. Making different area types available for different applications 3. Do bounded comparison groups meet all our needs? (Dealing with all councils, top tier, district and unitary.) 3. URIs and Linked Data 1. URIs comprised of area type / area id with sameAs relationship to equivalent URIs 2. What formats do we need to support as extensions and over HTTP 3. Managing change whilst keeping the URIs live
- 13. www.local.gov.uk/lginformplus@LGInformPlus 4. Next steps • Finishing the application • Putting on Github • Documentation • Amending natural neighbourhoods app • Publicity • Adoption within tools (LG Inform Plus and others) • Ongoing support and cleansing