As reported by The Guardian, this interesting, open and free data resource will be coming soon thanks to some investment by the government earmarked to kick-start application developers and provide them with the data they need. From The Guardian… The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, will on Thursday launch a website hosting hundreds of sets of data – including previously unreleased information – about the capital, as part of a new scheme intended to encourage people to create “mashups” of data to boost the city’s transparency and accountability. Note, this site is now to be confused with data.gov.uk which is also launching in the near future.
According to the news, datasets that will be available include attainment, pupil number and schools data; fire incidents, ambulance rates, crime rates; carbon emissions, floorspace, vacant commercial offices, industrial stock data, abandoned vehicles, recycling rates, waste data, waste re-use centres, fly tipping rates, alcohol indicators, abortion rates, hospital waiting lists and admissions, excess winter deaths – and much more.