MCR Hackathon data
This site provides documentation and links about the data sets and APIs being provided by Manchester City Council and other partners for the Manchester Hackathon taking place 16-17 November 2012.
Links to data sets, APIs and other resources are given further down the page.
Feedback
This is a temporary website set up to support the Hackathon. As such it's not intended to be the permanent home of a Manchester City Council open data 'catalogue'. As part of the Hackathon, we'll be asking for feedback on how access to the data and APIs can be improved.
Data sets
The data sets listed below are from Manchester City Council.
- Adult Learning Centres
- Benefits Reception Points
- Car and Motorcycle Parking
- Cemeteries and crematoria
- Contaminated land
- Council tax bands
- Customer Service
- Environmental Permits
- Environmental Permits (Revoked)
- Grit Bins
- Gritting Routes
- ICT Access Centres
- Libraries
- Manchester Local Images
- Markets
- Parks and open spaces
- Reading groups
- Recycling Sites in Manchester
- Recycling What Goes Where
- School Calendar 2012-13
- Schools in Manchester
- Sports Clubs and Leisure Centres
- State of the City data
- Structure and Pay
- Supplier transactions over £500
- Sure Start Children’s Centres
- Taxi Ranks in Manchester City Centre
- The Council and Democracy
- Trees in Manchester
- Venues Licensed to Hold Ceremonies
- Work Clubs
APIs
APIs and web services provided by Manchester City Council and MCR Hackathon partners.
- Get Directory Locations By Category API (Manchester City Council)
- Get Planning Applications (Manchester City Council)
- Get Service Details (Manchester City Council)
- Get Service List (Manchester City Council)
- Get Ward List (Manchester City Council)
- Postcode Lookup (Manchester City Council)
- Service Event Directory Webservice (Salford City Council)
More data
Data provided by partner organisations to support the MCR Hackathon and / or suggested by attendees.
- Data from Manchester Museum’s Ancient Worlds exhibition
- Data from other Greater Manchester authorities on DataGM
- Data from Salford City Council
- Data from Trafford Council
- Film, book and photo data from Cornerhouse
- Police and Crime Commissioner elections data
- Visitor Attractions in Greater Manchester
