Clean air is vital for healthy, happy living and as part of the Our Streets Chorlton project, Open Data Manchester will be measuring air quality using two Earthsense Zephyr solar-powered
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Our homes are responsible for about a quarter of UK energy consumption – and so making UK housing more energy efficient is a big part of the government’s net-zero carbon
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In the past month, we’ve been asking people working in Greater Manchester (GM) what they have, want and need in terms of open data, in order to make it more
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2020 has been a year unlike any other and – like everyone else – we have been forced to adapt to and overcome the various challenges that COVID-19 has thrown at us.
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As part of the Our Streets Chorlton project, Open Data Manchester will be carrying out various data monitoring and collection, including air quality measurements and traffic surveys. We are looking
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In July, we were delighted to be part of a team that was awarded ODI Stimulus Fund money to develop an open data standard for public information about local waste facilities.
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This week saw the ‘Our Streets Chorlton’ project (the new, more friendly name for the Chorlton Climate Action Project), start its open data journey with its first community data event.
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Over the past few months we’ve been developing a data cooperative model for small energy cooperatives in partnership with Manchester based Carbon Coop and supported through the ODI’s Data Infrastructure
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On 8th October, Open Data Manchester held an event at Federation House designed to give people the opportunity to explore the Indices of Deprivation, updated for 2019. The Indices of
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OpenStreetMap is a free, editable map of the world. Often described as the ‘cartographical Wikipedia’, it’s incredibly detailed and entirely crowdsourced. You can access it right now, and use it