We’re very nearly to launch data.southampton to the public. This week I’ve had two very interesting suggestions for ways the data can be useful.<\/p>\n
Last night, a taxi driver suggested my ‘search a map for university buildings by number<\/a>‘ [link is university-network-only until March 7th] tool would be really useful for their dispatch to find our more obscure buildings.<\/p>\n I was also asked by one of the door staff at The Hobbit<\/a> for a feed listing any large student events which might mean they need extra staff. Sadly, a bit of investigation suggests that most student events are locked up in the facebook silo<\/a> and not easy to get at as data.<\/p>\n In other news, I read a very exciting tweet; Edinburgh had a go at publishing a ‘places’ dataset<\/a>, using our OpenOrg Places recipe<\/a>! It looks rather spiffy rendered on Google Maps<\/a> using my GeoRDF to KML service<\/a>. Although it’s rendering the addresses rather than the buildings themselves, as that’s what they’ve attached lat\/long to.<\/p>\n We’re very nearly to launch data.southampton to the public. This week I’ve had two very interesting suggestions for ways the data can be useful. Last night, a taxi driver suggested my ‘search a map for university buildings by number‘ [link is university-network-only until March 7th] tool would be really useful for their dispatch to find […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}