Environment Agency to release flood of open data
The Environment Agency has announced that it is releasing a whole raft of information as open data.
Environment Agency datasets that are already available as open data include:
- Flood Alert Areas;
- Flood Warning Areas;
- Flood Warnings (Live Feed);
- Real-time and Near Real-time River Levels (Live Feed);
- Real-time and Near Real-time Air Temperature (Live feed);
- 3 day Flood Forecast (Live Feed);
- Water Framework Directive (WFD) River Waterbodies;
- Water Framework Directive (WFD) Groundwater Classification Status and Objectives; and
- Water Framework Directive (WFD) Measures.
The Agency is now increasing its commitment and will soon public as much of its data as possible, including flood data, as open data. This means that over time more EA data will be made freely available to developers, technology companies and individuals.
To assist the release of open data, the Agency is setting up a user group to advise it on which data it is most important to concentrate on making open.
The group will be made up of external parties with an interest in EA data, its current data customers and people with an open data background; the group will also receive input from the Agency and Defra. Anyone interested in joining this group should email OpenData@environment-agency.gov.uk.
