by PRBham | Feb 28, 2019 | Events, News, Work Programme
Welcome and purpose for the day On Friday March 1st 2019 in the West Midlands WMODF is preparing to celebrate global Open Data Day 2019 which this year is on Saturday March 2nd. Using transport as an exemplar, we want to explore how we can use wider data to plan and...
by chrisprice7482013 | Mar 3, 2017 | News, Policy
In February 2017 we wrote to each of the 5 candidates for the post of West Midlands mayor requesting their views by 1st March on open data, which we said we would share at our event Open Wide: Open Data Day 2017 in the West Midlands; we asked them to answer 3 specific...
by Admin | Mar 20, 2014 | Policy, Work Programme
BY TERESA JOLLEY · MARCH 16, 2014 Thanks to some volunteers and Open Mercia, RnR and Data Unlocked, the West Midlands now has a Data Store. Next question: what should we do with it? Having joined the West Midlands Open Data Forum in November 2013, I realise how...
by Admin | Feb 10, 2014 | Work Programme
Introducing West Midlands Open Data Forum. Notes from a talk by Andrew Mackenzie ——— I was at a tech event recently waiting in line for coffee, talking to a guy. He said ‘what do you do?’ I pointed to my badge. The badge said: West...
by Admin | Feb 10, 2014 | Policy
Notes from the transport discussion and minutes from the January 2014 meeting are available from the Agenda/Minutes page This image of gritting routes is from the Open StreetMap and transport data presentation by Brian Prangle of Mappa Mercia, also available for...