Being #RadicallyOpen| open-innovations.org
We created an archive of Bus Open Data on a shoestring budget.| open-innovations.org
We are very proud of our UK constituency data hex maps site. It maps data about UK constituencies across six different themes: Economy, Energy, Environment, Health, Society, and Transport. We are continually adding new datasets when we find them or when they are suggested to us, and we try to update visualisations when a new version is made available.| open-innovations.org
By: Luke Strange Earlier this month, Tom and I visited the Royal Automobile Club (RAC) in Pall Mall to talk about buses at the RAC Foundation's event, Data Driven 2025. It was a fantastic day out; we met many transport data enthusiasts between exciting talks on brilliant work that's happening in the field. We even had time to appreciate the incredible club at Pall Mall, which is like something from a period drama. The highlights included a 1935 Frazer Nash Shelsley and the carcass of a spit...| Open Innovations News
By: Stuart Lowe At the start of October we launched a project to create a hex map of UK wards. The aim was to arrange all 8,396 ward hexes grouped by local authority. We've done most of them but several local authorities have been arranged by locals. At the end of last week we finally arranged the last hexagon; the map is now complete. Behold! UK ward cartogramCredit: Open Innovations and collaboratorsPlease check your local authority to see if the layout feels acceptable. To make things a li...| Open Innovations News
Always #RadicallyOpen| open-innovations.org
By: Luke Strange Recently, Stuart added constituency maps of all the ATMs, post offices, and pubs in the UK and all the fish and chip shops in the UK to our constituency site. As he was doing this work, he asked us if there was anything else we wanted to see using the OpenStreetMap data. I suggested bus stops. Stuart pointed out that I already had all the data on bus stops! In our most recent project on buses with Liverpool City Region Combined Authority, we had downloaded the locations and d...| Open Innovations News
By: Stuart Lowe Previously we found all the post offices, ATMs, and pubs in the UK. With it being Poisson d'Avril today, we decided to make a constituency hex map of all the fish and chip shops in the UK using the same method. Tom shared our first version with people on social media earlier and a Wrexhamite (Wrexonion?) replied in outrage and disbelief that we only had two fish and chip shops listed. So we double-checked the code and found they were correct; we were missing some features that...| Open Innovations News