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 air quality sensors at selected locations in Chorlton and Chorlton Park during 2021. The sensors will be measuring Nitrogen Monoxide (NO), Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2), Ozone
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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 emissions ambition – particularly through the Green Homes Grant and the recently announced 10 point plan. These initiatives will go some way towards helping the UK achieve its
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Dec
Dec
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 useful for their organisation and the wider economy. Through a survey and a series of six sector-based workshops, this consultation was designed to help GMCA (Greater Manchester
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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. This year should have seen us celebrate 10 years of Open Data Manchester, but we are certainly not alone in having put off big plans
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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 to form a cohort of data collectors and traffic surveyors who will not only help us collect baseline data throughout the initial year-long project, but
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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. Your Dsposal is leading on the project and its director, Sophie Walker, told us how things are going at the halfway point… We’re about halfway
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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. As ever for those working with Open Data Manchester, that work begins with the question ‘what is data?’, but not before we got to know
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In summer 2019, GMCA (Greater Manchester Combined Authority) launched the GM Local Industrial Strategy to help set long-term priorities for our regional economy, ultimately to ensure good jobs and better public services locally. This was the first of such local plans in the UK, created after a consultation with local people and reviewed by expert analysts, and it highlights
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Pick N Mix is a tasty selection of free, online workshops run by members of the ODM community where you’ll get introduced to a new tool, resource or skill in a fun and friendly way. Back by popular demand after a pilot series during the COVID-19 lockdown in the UK, the first events in Season
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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 Stimulus Fund. The aim of the project is to explore if a cooperative model of data custodianship could allow members energy data to be collected,