March 2024
Open addresses in the House of Lords – what happened?
Nottingham Trees (updated data visualisation)
FOI release: new LandIS agreement between Defra and Cranfield University
February 2024
January 2024
Home Office letter to Meta on end-to-end encryption released following FOI request
November 2023
Energy efficiency of housing in Parliamentary constituencies in England and Wales, 2023
Energy efficiency of housing in Parliamentary constituencies in England and Wales, 2023 (data table)
Nottingham Trees (updated data visualisation)
Joint Inspection Team funding agreement and indemnity released following FOI request
September 2023
IDeA Board meeting papers released following FOI request, with redactions
July 2023
Large Raised Reservoirs (updated data visualisation)
June 2023
Thoughts on campaigning for open address data in the UK
IDeA Board meeting papers released following FOI request, heavily redacted
Net change in housing stock counts in England and Wales since 2010 (updated data visualisation)
New build homes in England and Wales since 2000 (updated data visualisation)
May 2023
Nottingham Trees (updated data visualisation)
April 2023
Time series of insolvencies in Parliamentary constituencies (updated data visualisation)
Time series of insolvencies in local authority areas (updated data visualisation)
March 2023
FOI/EIRs release: information from the Environment Agency's FCRM Engagement metrics database
January 2023
December 2022
Large Raised Reservoirs managed and controlled by water companies (updated data visualisation)
Large Raised Reservoirs (updated data visualisation)
Output Area counts for licensed vehicles in the UK released by DfT following ICO decision notice
November 2022
Energy efficiency of housing in Parliamentary constituencies in England and Wales, 2022
Energy efficiency of housing in Parliamentary constituencies in England and Wales, 2022 (data table)
September 2022
92% of domestic Energy Performance Certificates have been matched to UPRNs
August 2022
Data discovery: sources of open LiDAR data for the UK
Large Raised Reservoirs managed and controlled by water companies (data visualisation)
Nottingham Trees (updated data visualisation)
July 2022
2021/22 DSP Toolkit status of UTLAs in England (data visualisation)
Time series of Census age distributions in local authority areas (data visualisation)
May 2022
Net change in housing stock counts in England and Wales since 2010 (updated data visualisation)
New build homes in England and Wales since 2000 (updated data visualisation)
April 2022
ICO advice on the status of EPCs as personal data
Time series of insolvencies in Parliamentary constituencies (updated data visualisation)
Time series of insolvencies in local authority areas (updated data visualisation)
March 2022
Errors in allocation of UPRNs to Energy Performance Certificates
Small area counts for licensed vehicles in the UK released by DfT/DVLA under FOI
Nottingham Trees (updated data visualisation)
92% of domestic Energy Performance Certificates have been matched to UPRNs
Are EPCs for housing in England and Wales open data, or personal data, or what?
December 2021
Large Raised Reservoirs (updated data visualisation)
November 2021
Time series of insolvencies in Parliamentary constituencies (updated data visualisation)
October 2021
Accidents involving e-scooters in Great Britain in 2020 (data visualisation)
Net change in housing stock counts in England and Wales since 2010 (data visualisation)
New build homes in England and Wales since 2000 (updated data visualisation)
September 2021
Time series of insolvencies in local authority areas (updated data visualisation)
August 2021
Nottingham Trees (data visualisation)
June 2021
UK address data: a primer and bibliography (updated)
Greggs vs Pret (data visualisation)
May 2021
Participation in the 2019 UK general election (data visualisation)
April 2021
National Protocol for the Handling, Transmission and Storage of Reservoir Information and Flood Maps
How to vectorise the Environment Agency's Reservoir Flood Map Outline data
January 2021
Locations of Large Raised Reservoirs in Wales also released as open data
December 2020
Locations of Large Raised Reservoirs in England released as open data
Large Raised Reservoirs (data visualisation)
November 2020
ICO: the Environment Agency must release locations of Large Raised Reservoirs as open data
October 2020
New build homes in England and Wales since 2000 (data visualisation)
July 2020
May 2020
Will Land Registry release the INSPIRE Index Polygons as open data or not?
Opening up OS MasterMap: are we any closer to open data on property extents?
January 2020
How serious is the Department for Education's gambling industry data breach?
November 2019
Time series of insolvencies in Parliamentary constituencies (data visualisation)
The 77m Ltd case: Ordnance Survey defends its address data monopoly in the High Court
October 2019
Open data sites maintained by UK local authorities
Compare age distributions in Parliamentary constituencies (data visualisation)
Experimental Urban Extents polygons for natural capital accounts
August 2019
Time series of insolvencies in local authority areas (data visualisation)
July 2019
Time series of age distributions in local authority areas (data visualisation)
Compare age distributions in local authority areas (data visualisation)
June 2019
School sites in England on historic landfill (data visualisation)
Turnout and postal voting in the 2017 General Election
Why isn't the national soil map open data?
Bat roost locations in Leaflet (data visualisation)
May 2019
Small area population estimates in Leaflet (data visualisation)
Noise pollution – where are Defra's new strategic noise maps for England?
Environment Agency data is not as discoverable as it used to be
April 2019
Why don't we have proper official statistics for public libraries in England?
February 2019
Housing age of major towns and cities in England and Wales
Can open data reduce demand for Freedom of Information?
December 2018
RNLI's "open data" isn't so open
November 2018
Openwashing in open data: some recent examples
October 2018
Response to the Geospatial Commission's call for evidence on a National Geospatial Strategy
List of academy schools covered by DfE's Risk Protection Arrangement
September 2018
How credible is the Open Data Barometer's dataset survey?
The 'golden thread' – why do we have so many property identifiers?
UK address data: a primer and bibliography
Open data: a pre-release checklist
August 2018
Is there copyright in biological records?
July 2018
Can we make biodiversity data more open?
June 2018
BCG awarded more than £2.2m in consultancy contracts for Geospatial Commission work
Points from this week's AGI webinar on "Open" MasterMap
Questions for the Geospatial Commission about "Open" MasterMap
Something is happening with MasterMap
Unlocked: spatial data for historic landfill sites in England
Re-use of open data under GDPR
What's happening with MasterMap and the Geospatial Commission?
April 2018
New Data.gov.uk, same as the old Data.gov.uk
Water Marks GB – a higher-resolution open data source for Britain's coastline
March 2018
How "canonical" is DWP's Jobcentre register?
February 2018
BCG awarded £554k contract for consultancy support prior to announcement of Geospatial Commission
January 2018
What can we expect from Land Registry's new "open approach" to data?
December 2017
Some tiresome questions about the Planning Inspectorate Appeals Dataset …
November 2017
Why I'm cautiously optimistic about this week's Geospatial Commission announcement
October 2017
Open data horror stories: notes for an #ODCamp pitch/session
Updated map of UK local government open data resources
July 2017
NHS Digital's terms and conditions: not the Open Government Licence
Open data cannot be "all rights reserved" …
Unlocking VOA's local reference rent (LRR) tables
INSPIRE Index Polygons – issue and workaround
The Global Open Data Index 2016: identifying room for improvement in UK open data
June 2017
Results of the UK General Election on 8 June 2017: some open data resources
May 2017
OS Open Data statistics released by Ordnance Survey
April 2017
ICO: Land Registry's Price Paid Data is personal data.
Waste data: Environment Agency's "journey to open" has come to a grinding halt.
March 2017
Majority of electors in England and Wales now opt out of the open register
List of Risk Protection Arrangement (RPA) member schools released as open data
Data on expenditure by Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) isn't open
February 2017
Open banking: how not to write an open data licence
January 2017
UK open data: is anyone using it then?
December 2016
Hiding from Google: open data, data discovery and robots.txt
Profiling the age of housing stock in England and Wales
October 2016
Household projections for local authorities in England: now unlocked as open data
September 2016
Councils have mapped the risk of flash flooding – why isn't this open data yet?
How to fix Data.gov.uk (or at least make it suck less for users)
July 2016
Comments for Guardian article on what Brexit means for UK open data
DCLG should release the Local Authority Housing Assets dataset as open data.
June 2016
OpenDefra: 8,000+ open datasets released in one year
Signposting open data: discovery guides and other bright ideas
March 2016
UK open data: some things that happened (and a few that didn't) in 2015
February 2016
Household Projections detailed data – not open (and DCLG isn't sure why)
Open data review: FCO's Country Register
MPs' Register of Financial Interests – full dataset as open data
January 2016
Post Office branch locations – now with geocodes and constituencies (suitable for mapping!)
NHS England submission to FOI Commission
December 2015
2015 Global Open Data Index – United Kingdom
November 2015
UK insurers (and Flood Re) must be open about their use of flood risk data
No more fast track access to the National Pupil Database?
October 2015
Open by default: Environment Agency is halfway there …
Environment Agency LiDAR: more links and resources
Has Cabinet Office really opened up 20,000 Government datasets over the past five years?
Open data release of aerial LiDAR data for England: links and resources
Unlocking open data: can we fix the Data.gov.uk request process?
September 2015
Do we need a better open data tool for UK political donations?
July 2015
"No linking" policies are still a thing on UK websites
Open Defra will have eight themes
Where is all the open data for waste management?
Cabinet Office and the Register of Charities: my #FOI adventure
June 2015
Open Defra: what is it, and what do we know so far?
April 2015
Comments for Guardian article on appointment of Mike Bracken as UK's Chief Data Officer
March 2015
Statistics on take-up of Environment Agency's Floodline Warnings Direct service
How to Publish Open Public Data (in the UK)
February 2015
Does open data need a licence?
New Environment Agency open data: Water Resource Availability in England
January 2015
How suitable is Environment Agency's flood data for identifying individual properties at risk?
How many primary schools in England are over capacity?
Environment Agency flood risk open data: some apps and info
It was all a dream: Land Registry's Price Paid dataset isn't really open data after all.
December 2014
Risk of Flooding from Rivers and the Sea (RoFRS) - new Environment Agency open data release
Comments for City Metric article on civic open data
Autumn Statement 2014 - Open Data and Data Sharing
Environment Agency National Dataset List
November 2014
How far can we trust open data?
Environment Agency Open Data: Issues and Priorities
Lords' Register of Interests – full dataset as open data
October 2014
Green Belt boundaries for England have been released as open data
UK Government consultation on transposition of the new PSI Directive
Ordnance Survey Open Data: Back to the well …
September 2014
August 2014
Latest Environment Agency open data releases
July 2014
ODUG benefits case for open data release of an authoritative GP dataset
New open data releases announced by the Public Data Group
Who supports the privatisation of Land Registry? Mainly corporates.
Open spending data: the four least transparent councils in England
June 2014
New Environment Agency open data releases
May 2014
FOI request to Cabinet Office re open data and the register of charities
Unlocking Environment Agency flood data: a progress report
Electoral Register data breaches: how wide is the problem?
March 2014
UK statistics and open data: MPs' inquiry report published
Primary sources of bulk address data for GP practices in the UK
Flood Warning Data Integrity Guide
January 2014
Unraveling the UK Government's funding strategy for open data
Land Registry and the privatisation threat to open data
UK floods and the case for opening up Environment Agency flood data
#Floodhack and opening up Environment Agency flood data
Mapping the Environment Agency's flood risk management maintenance programme with open data
How open is the Cabinet Office's open data funding programme?
Storify: support for open release of Environment Agency flood data
School Catchment Areas as Open Data
December 2013
Environment Agency information about hazardous landfill sites: still some questions
That's not how the OGL works …
The ONS Postcode Directory: Open Data, but Which Licence?
Evaluating the UK National Information Infrastructure
November 2013
Royal Mail privatisation closes the door to Freedom of Information requests
October 2013
Feedback on recent design changes to Data.gov.uk
Has the Environment Agency removed information on the type of waste received at landfill sites?
September 2013
Charged Licence for re-use of public sector information released by UK National Archives
I've discovered Defra's hidden stash of CAP Payments data …
North Yorkshire Public Rights of Way Data and Section 21 of FOI
The Defra Network Transparency Panel: Open Data and a Transparency Vision
Written Evidence to PASC Inquiry on Statistics and Open Data
August 2013
OS OpenData Economic Value Study Released Under FOI
Public Sector Transparency Board – June 2013 Meeting
Social Mobility Transparency Board: terms of reference and list of members
July 2013
MOJ's new Code of Practice (Datasets) is hostile to open data
The Cabinet Office needs to mend fences with the charitable sector on open data and transparency
Exploiting the National Pupil Database – Consultation Responses
June 2013
Information Economy Strategy Consultation: Comments on Open Data
Information Economy Strategy – All Consultation Responses
May 2013
The cost of unlocking economic potential from core reference data
Green Belt Boundaries for England – Still Not Open Data
UK Open Data: An Institutional Timeline
Full responses to the draft Code of Practice (Datasets) consultation
Land Registry to release Price Paid Data under Open Government Licence
April 2013
Maggie Thatcher is unpopular in Liverpool
Shakespeare Review into Public Sector Information: Draft Recommendations
March 2013
Royal Mail cancels Pinpoint positional data capture project
Ofcom's Postcode Address File consultation – update
February 2013
Free school applications – Department for Education FOI responses
Ofcom's Postcode Address File consultation – key figures redacted
January 2013
Open Data or Not? A hard look at the Scottish Data Zone Boundaries licence
Draft Code of Practice (Datasets): Comments
December 2012
Open Data User Group initial recommendations to Data Strategy Board
October 2012
Scottish Parliament MSP Allowances: 2011-2012 Bulk Data
Whatever happened to Information Asset Registers?
September 2012
Ten awesome open data resources (missing from Data.gov.uk)
August 2012
June 2012
Freedom of Information and Charging for Public Sector Data
May 2012
Further information on Royal Mail's Positional Data Capture project
April 2012
Inventory of Closed Mining Waste Facilities on a map
March 2012
Land Registry Price Paid information on a map
On the importance of promoting open data to local government
Royal Mail's Positional Data Capture project: competition for NAG and AddressBase?
Descoped: Land Registry to release only tiny fraction of Price Paid information as open data
February 2012
FOIA and the Protection of Freedoms Bill: An Enhanced 'Right to Data' or Just a 'Right to Buy Data'?
January 2012
Public-Private Partnership Policing in the UK
Reservoir Inundation Maps: National Security vs Public Information
Flood Insurance and the Housing Market Apocalypse