EADAG Meeting 6 – Minutes and papers

Minutes, papers and presentations from the sixth meeting of the Environment Agency Data Advisory Group, held on 11th February 2016:

• Minutes from the meeting (Word format | Open-doc format)
• Flood Re – Presentation (PDF format)
• Flood Guidance Statements – Presentation (PDF format) | Example statement (PDF format)
• ODX Open Data Accelerator – Presentation (PDF format)
• Embedding open-data into the Environment Agency – Open-data tube map journey (PDF format) | Open data excuses (PDF format)

 

EADAG Meeting 5 minutes and papers

Minutes from the fifth meeting of the Environment Agency Data Advisory Group, held on 3rd November 2015.

• Publishing goals
• Licensing Review
• EA Licensing 2016 consultation

EADAG Meeting 4 minutes and papers

Minutes from the fourth meeting of the Environment Agency Data Advisory Group, held on 16th June 2015.

• Copies of presentations used in the meeting:
  • EA’s Latest Open Data Releases (.pdf)
  • EA’s Publication Timescales and Forward Look (.pdf)
  • An introduction to the Combined Sources Product (CSP), presenting a single risk that combines almost all sources of flooding for England (.pdf)
• A briefing note from Natural Resources Wales about the new online flood risk maps (.docx)
• An estimate of EA Income by Dataset (.xlsx)

Accessing open LIDAR data *now*

As per the Environment Agency announcements last month and previous blogpost on this site, the LIDAR dataset is being published as open data under the Open Government License from 1^st September.

The data is currently available to users through a commercial license with EA. However you can also access samples of the data for testing and / or development purposes. Further information below from the EA data team on how to access the data through a ‘development license’:

Unfortunately due to internal resource issues, we can’t supply national coverage datasets currently under development licences. We are too busy getting everything ready for September 1^st  when the data will be available from our Datashare site.

If you want data before this to have a look at and consider how you could use it then we can supply you with a development licence, which is free, and you can then access the Geomatics website and download a max 10 x 10 tiles * , of any resolution you like, anywhere you like. 

This process is automated, doesn’t require staff time, and should be enough for anyone to complete any evaluation required in advance of the 1^st September. 

If you wish to obtain a development licence for LIDAR please contact data.info@environment-agency.gov.uk and please put “LIDAR-DEVELOPMENT LICENCE” in the subject line.

* Note the extent of the 10 x 10 tiles is dependent on the resolution you’re using. If you were downloading 1m or 2m data, then tiles are 1 sqkm each. Therefore  you could download an area of up to 100 sqkm. If you were downloading 25cm or 50cm resolution data, then tiles are 500m x 500m each. Therefore you could download an area of up to 25 sqkm.

Lunchtime Lecture: The Environment Agency’s open data journey

Friday 3 July 2015 – listen to Michael Rose’s ‘Lunchtime lecture‘ on the Environment Agency’s journey to becoming an Open Data organisation!

LiDAR release

EA have announced today that from 1st September 2015, their Light Detection & Ranging (LiDAR) data will be available as Open Data.

See the Special Acorn Notice ‘Opening up our LIDAR data‘ and EA blogpost ‘Free mapping data will elevate flood risk knowledge‘ for more details.

Flood alert and water data APIs

• Shoothill’s river levels and flood risk API: visualisation of river levels at 2,481 EA river gauges, and alerts via Twitter
• EA’s real-time flood monitoring API: flood warnings and flood alerts, flood areas which to which warnings or alerts apply, forecast of flood risks over the next three days, measurements of water levels and flows, and information on the monitoring stations providing those measurements
• EA’s Bathing water quality explorer (website and interactive tool): see EA blogposts: “Exploring water quality” and “England’s waters cleanest since records began“
• Defra’s blogpost on the new flood data APIs

Open Data in the pipeline…

The Environment Agency has just released a list of the top 79 priority datasets that are currently being assessed for release as Open Data over the next 6 months.

The list is a combination of the top 50 priority datasets that EADAG members ranked in order of priority, and additional datasets that the EA is also assessing to release.

• EA OpenData PipelineDatasets (in .xls format because WordPress does not support OpenDocument Spreadsheets).

EADAG Meeting 3 minutes and papers

Minutes and papers from the third meeting of the Environment Agency Data Advisory Group, held on 10th March 2015:

• Agenda and Minutes (open-document format).
  • Paper 3.1 – Business Case (open-document format)
  • Paper 3.2 – New Open Data datasets (open-document format)
  • Paper 3.3 – Potential requests to EA (xls)
• Updated EADAG Actions Log (2015-03-31, xls)

Recent open data updates:

• EA’s Real Time flood-monitoring API is now released in Beta (details)
• Ordnance Survey released Open Map products (in beta) as open data, including street level vector mapping, place names, rivers and road networks (details and downloads)
• EA and Defra have been exploring linking these together, see their joint blog post and Alex Coley’s article (Defra digital).

EADAG Meeting 2 minutes and papers

Minutes and papers from the second  meeting of the Environment Agency Data Advisory Group, held on 16th December 2014.

Agenda (open-document format) | Minutes (open-document format).

Papers: Item3 – 16th December Data Advisory Group – Toby Draft Slides (pdf) | Item4 – Chris Jarvis – DSP slides for DAG (pdf) | Item5 – EA Open Data publication mechanism and formats (pdf) | Item6 – EADAG-priorities (pdf) and Item6 SUMMARY-EA_Prioritised_List_Open_Data_Phase 1 (Excel) | Item7 – Sensitive data T&F group