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By: Simon Wright

Simon Wright — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:33:25 +0000

Plymouth Schools
http://www.totalchange.com/simon/schools/

By: William Heath

William Heath — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 12:32:23 +0000

Olly Jackson writes:

I’m tempted to do something for this, sounds interesting. One problem though, anyone know what data is actually available online? I’ve found
http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/ but it has horrible, horrible javascript redirect stuff which does not bode well for scraping data.

Olly

By: Pete Zaborszky

Pete Zaborszky — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 01:12:07 +0000

Sorry, I forgot to post the url in the above comment, they should be:

http://www.ourproperty.co.uk/stats/sw7.html

and

http://www.ourproperty.co.uk/stats.html

Remember to click the “Show Map” links when you get to the town you are interested in.

By: Pete Zaborszky

Pete Zaborszky — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 01:09:36 +0000

This example shows the most expensive roads (by average sale price over the last 2 years) in the UK plotted on a Google Map. On this particular page you can see roads in Knightsbridge (make sure you click the view map link as they don’t show by default). We also have maps like this for every other town in the country, just click on the House Price Statistics link at the bottom of the page.

By: Ben O'Neill

Ben O'Neill — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:54:24 +0000

http://tinyurl.com/7kl6u — uses Google Maps and BBC news stories to plot the last 12 hours of news on a map of the UK.

By: Paul Maunders

Paul Maunders — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:00:21 +0000

http://www.world-airport-codes.com/uk-top-20-airports.html containts a list of the UK’s top airports, with each airports location plotted on a google map. Click on the airport names to go through to the map page.

By: Alistair Rutherford

Alistair Rutherford — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:45:24 +0000

I guess I might as well get the ball rolling.

http://www.gTraffic.info uses data provided by the BBC and the Highways Agency (this is a gov agency so I suppose it counts). The HA provides roadworks and motorway message signs through their QMISS XML feed.