Comments on: Getting information about blue plaques on your mobile phone…

By: Roy Reed

Roy Reed — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:36:09 +0000

I’ve produced a Google Earth KMZ of all the EH Blue Plaques. You can find more info here: http://reeddesign.co.uk/wordpress/2009/12/01/blue-plaques-on-google-earth/

By: David Coughlan

David Coughlan — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:14:52 +0000

Will you have a look at my Blue Plaque Google Map and Street view web page and give me some feedback please. You can view it here..

http://www.davidcoughlan.net/CV/ListSearch/BluePlaqueSearch.aspx

Many thanks and kind regards,
Dave Coughlan

By: Frankie Roberto – Open Plaques project update

Frankie Roberto – Open Plaques project update — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:41:04 +0000

[...] Thought I should write a quick update on what’s been happening with the Open Plaques project. (A quick re-cap: this is a project to gather data and photographs of all the blue plaques in the UK, a very simple idea which I first explored on Twitter, and then in a blog post here). [...]

By: Rattle » Another idea: ‘What Happened Here?’

Rattle » Another idea: ‘What Happened Here?’ — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:35:02 +0000

[...] and villages), via the platform of mobile phones. The idea was first floated on Twitter, and then written up on my personal blog, so it’s already ‘out there’, but I thought it might be [...]

By: Jez Nicholson

Jez Nicholson — Mon, 04 May 2009 11:44:22 +0000

Hi Frankie,

Is it you who is the source of the openplaque:id Flickr tags? I’m toying with using blue plaque data during Yahoo OpenHack next weekend which is why i’ve been adding Brighton & Hove plaques (I’m J’Roo on Flickr). I have a strong interest in OpenStreetMap and open data formats.

Perhaps the data can end up as full machine tags, e.g. openplaques:subject=”Sir Winston Churchill”, openplaques:profession=”Prime Minister”, openplaques:lifespan=”1874-1965″, openplaques:action=”Was educated here at The Misses Thompson’s Preparatory School”, openplaques:actionspan=”1883-1885″, etc. ? which could make it live longer than any blueplaque web site or database.

Regards,
Jez

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:18:37 +0000

Hey

Zelda Rhiando used to keep a site full of Blue Plaque info – she may well still have all the data… http://www.badzelda.com/

Also, bet your bottom dollar that Yoz Grahame still has all the handheld history files somewhere… http://www.yoz.com/

By: Frankie Roberto

Frankie Roberto — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:01:55 +0000

@jim Nice. Don’t think I’m quite ready to look at data from outside the UK though.

Will look into the GPS Mission app…

By: jim

jim — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:49:13 +0000

the state of pennsylvania has a nice DB with geocoords.

http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=2539&&PageID=300886&level=3&css=L3&mode=2&in_hi_userid=2&cached=true

very interesting idea. looking at gpsmission.app for the iphone might server some inspiration. i have a few ideas on the backburner with the concept.

By: Frankie Roberto

Frankie Roberto — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:28:22 +0000

@Terence/Matt: I don’t think QR codes would work here. As well as the hassle of physically applying them, plaques are sometimes mounted in awkward positions (such as high up a wall), and you need to be fairly close for a camera to be able to read a 2d barcode.

@Keir nice work! Thanks for the offer – I’ll try and combine your data with other sources to get the best coverage possible.

By: Keir Clarke

Keir Clarke — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:19:36 +0000

The blue plaque map looks a little bare. I started a Google My Map and got as far as C in the alphabet before I gave up. It still has a lot more markers. You could extract the data if you wanted by exporting the kml of the map.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=106318970231915561670.00000112aff2248ed9457&ll=51.475396,-0.182648&spn=0.382341,0.884399&t=h&z=10