Openly Local news RSS feed

October 10 2011, 3.33PM

PlanningAlerts is dead, long-live PlanningAlerts

One of the first and best examples of how data could make a difference to ordinary people’s lives was the inspirational PlanningAlerts.com, b...
February 23 2011, 11.15AM

A first look at the council spending data: £10bn, 1.5m payments, 60,000 companies

Like buses, you wait ages for local councils to publish their spending data, then a whole load come at once… and consequently OpenlyLocal has...
February 22 2011, 11.32PM

Videoing council meetings redux: progress on two fronts

Tonight, hyperlocal bloggers (and in fact any ordinary members of the public) got two great boosts in their access to council meetings, and their a...

Openly Local is a new project to develop an open and unified way of accessing Local Government information.

So far we have opened up data for over 140 local authorities, and more are being added every week, with more information being opened up too.

We currently have information on:

  • 163 councils
  • 11,423 councillors
  • 6,764 committees
  • 80,430 committee meetings

Most of the data is accessible as XML or json data through a simple API (basically add .xml or .json to the main part of the URL). There is also a Google Gadget, an app for Hyperlocal sites using Ning, and a simple javascript widget