Blog
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ScenicOrNot: want to play with the data?
mySociety have added a data dump to ScenicOrNot, the site we built for them a couple of months ago. It’s got the photos and all the votes for each of the 181,300 places that have received 3 or more votes since the site launched.
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We’re Hiring!
The Dextrous Web is a young start-up, making its first hire. We’re looking for a PHP/Ruby developer to join the team – which is currently one full-timer and a collection of freelance designers and programmers. The Dextrous Web was founded with a specific mission in mind. We want to make useful things on the web…
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ScenicOrNot’s Secret Project…
Isn’t secret anymore! MySociety have just taken the wraps off Mapumental, which is a terribly clever mapping application to help you figure out where you want to live if you have a commute (and probable more besides that). We and MySociety teamed up to build ScenicOrNot, which has produced the dataset that Mapumental consults when…
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Andrew Stott — the new Director of Digital Engagement
I was slightly bemused when the Cabinet Office announced that it was going to create a new £160k position for the Director of Digital Engagement. The job seemed like a tall order: a list of requirements that it would be hard for any one person to fulfill, and a very big job to do with…
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ScenicOrNot’s on BBC News
Just a quickie post — ScenicOrNot, a project we recently completed for MySociety, has been featured in BBC News Online’s Technology section. Predictably, there’s been a big jump in player numbers. We just zoomed past 3000 players, 260,000 votes and over 50,000 places rated. Thanks Auntie!
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Reforming Ordnance Survey
People have been talking about the Ordnance Survey rather a lot recently. It’s a very strange beast. It has mountains of really useful data: electoral boundaries, postcode databases and the locations of all sorts of buildings, not to mention roads, railways and green spaces. Unfortunately, it’s a quasi-independent body, which has to pay its own…