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Owen Boswarva
Personal blog · owenboswarva.com/blogdatapolitics
Owen Boswarva's personal blog at owenboswarva.com covers data and politics. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
Covers scraping 241 UK council planning portals for 2.6M planning decisions. The one comment raises licensing and copyright questions about using that scraped public data.
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What Hacker News says?
I work with public data, and I'd love to get access to this data, but I suspect that although you have scraped the data from public websites, there are licensing and copyright implications for actually using it. See also the open addresses project by Data Adaptive [1] which is using Freedom of Information requests to publish public council tax address data. The problem they have run into there is that their address…
Comment linking /blog/post-addr44.htm
on “Scraping 241 UK council planning portals – 2.6M decisions so far”Submitted What3Words submitting takedown requests against Tweets [pdf] as a story · 87 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ordnance Survey demands removal of all open data address datasets as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted UK address data: a primer and bibliography as a story · 1 points
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