Geospatial Hackday

The council is currently exploring ways to provide better access to data about our local area: maps and other data that can help us understand more about the city and the wider area in which we live, work and do business.

To support their project, which is funded by the Open Data Institute, we are running a hack day to use this data to provide the community with better maps and tools to explore the local area.

If you are interested in examining or creating maps of the local area, discovering insights that are useful for the community, or building geospatial tools to help others to use this data, then come along!

Who is the event for?

The event is open to anyone, although numbers will be limited to around 40 people. Our events are informal, social, lively occasions that bring together people from all walks of life and from all around the area, to share skills, creativity and ideas.

We’d love for you to join us, whatever your skills or interests. Our events are often attended by software developers, artists, designers and data analysts but we usually have attendees from many varied backgrounds.

We’re also very keen to involve local community groups, campaigners and other organisations, who can offer their expertise and insight, or have ideas for how maps & geospatial data could be useful. You don’t have to be a boffin to make a big impact at our events.

Agenda

Saturday 20th October 2018 at The Guild Co-working Hub

9:30 - Set up & arrive
10:00 - Introduction to the day
10.15 - Brief networking time
10.30 - Hacking begins
13.00 - Lunch available
16.00 - Hacking ends
16.30 - Team presentations
17.30 - Clear up & unwind over drinks

Data Sources

Bath council have made some new map data available: https://github.com/bathnes-opendata/mapdata

The bath hacked Geo data is also available:
https://github.com/BathHacked/banes-geographic-data

And we have many other datasets (non maps) in the bath hacked data store: https://data.bathhacked.org

All of our events are governed by our Code of Conduct (http://bit.ly/2Ndxexz). Please be respectful of each other.

If you need assistance to attend this meetup or have any questions please drop us a message.

To see an example of what has happened at previous hacks, check out our report of last year's hack: https://www.bathhacked.org/breathe-hack-day/breathe-hack-day-results-and-next-steps/