[OKFN-EN] UK Census - public toilet data

Gail Ramster gail.ramster at network.rca.ac.uk
Thu Mar 27 12:39:58 UTC 2014


Hi
I've made a list of all the councils that provide open data about their public toilets, with links and the format that each is it, as part of our project to map toilets, but I don't think toilets are part of the census. Is there anything useful that I could do with this? I remember the idea of a topical census been mentioned, could this be a candidate?

Best wishes
Gail

> On 26 Mar 2014, at 19:20, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Tuesday, 25 March 2014, Shane Mitchell <mitch_shane at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Rufus,
>> 
>> Actually that's a can of worms on what is missing. You also don't have Truro, which is a city and the capital of Cornwall.
> 
> Very true. The first pass list of cities was, I think, just a list of all cities in the UK with more than 200k population.
>  
>> Also, several places are towns. So, why not places like Eastbourne (100k population).
>> There I have been asking the questions about open data, to which the council leader looks like i'm talking French.
> 
> that's great! (that you are asking questions). I guess my concern here is that we could systematically add all towns >= 100k but we'd end up with a lot of cities (my guess is ~200 (?)). I'd prefer we add one by one as we have people who are interested in looking up the data for those cities.
>  
>> Happy to try to populate the data for there though, to prove my point to the council, that it is a phenomena that is happening :)
> 
> That would be great. Would you like Eastbourne added?
> 
> Rufus
>  
>> Shane
>> 
>> 
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>> On Tue, 25/3/14, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>> 
>>  Subject: Re: [OKFN-EN] Lincoln missing from UK cities census
>>  To: "Alex Bilbie" <hello at alexbilbie.com>
>>  Cc: "okfn-en at lists.okfn.org" <okfn-en at lists.okfn.org>
>>  Date: Tuesday, 25 March, 2014, 16:10
>> 
>>  Hi Alex,
>>  You're quite right that it was missing and
>>  that is now fixed! Given your enquiry, would you be
>>  interested in helping to complete Lincoln's entries :-)
>>  ?
>> 
>>  Rufus
>> 
>>  On 24 March 2014
>>  16:23, Alex Bilbie <hello at alexbilbie.com>
>>  wrote:
>> 
>>  Hello,
>> 
>>  The UK cities census (http://gb-city.census.okfn.org/)
>>  is missing Lincoln as a city.
>> 
>>  Regards,
>> 
>>  Alex
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