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# All-Irish Planning Applications
# Local Planning Explorer Ireland

A joint submission to the [Open Data Challenge 2011](http://opendatachallenge.org/) by:

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function action_home() {
$options = array(
"title" => "Planning Applications to Local Councils in Ireland",
"title" => "Local Planning Explorer Ireland",
"scripts" => array(
"http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.2/jquery.min.js",
"/js/jquery.maphilight.min.js",
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<p>Dummy page</p>
<h2>What is it good for?</h2>
<p>
With this app we want to provide insights into local county and city planning processes in Ireland. We do this by notifying users
of planning applications that have been submitted in their local area via Twitter as well as enabling exploration
of planning applications in a street-level view.
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<p>
Citizens benefit directly from learning about ongoing planning applications and the work of the town or county
council is made transparent, hence brings citizen closer to their local government.
For SMEs in the construction area, the app provide additional insights that might serve as a basis for business decisions.
</p>

<h2>Who is behind this?</h2>
<p>
The <em>Local Planning Explorer Ireland</em> is a corporation of:
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<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.deri.ie/" title="Digital Enterprise Research Institute: Home">DERI</a>, NUI Galway, Ireland (Richard Cyganiak, Sarven Capadisli, Michael Hausenblas, Aftab Iqbal, Fadi Maali, Gofran Shukair)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.lgcsb.ie/" title="LGCSB Home">Local Government Computer Services Board</a>, Ireland (Tim Willoughby)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.fingalcoco.ie/" title="Welcome to Fingal County Council">Fingal County Council</a>, Ireland (Dominic Byrne)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/en/institute/pwo/bizer/index.html" title="Information Systems: Web-based Systems Group">Information Systems: Web-based Systems Group</a>, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (Anja Jentzsch)</li>
</ul>

<h2>What data sources are used and how?</h2>
<p>
We have used Irish open data sources as well as data sources that are currently in the process of being opened-up:
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<ul>
<li>Planning enquiry websites of 28 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland" title="Republic of Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">RoI</a> local councils, scraped via ScraperWiki (<a href="http://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/irish_planning_applications/" title="Irish Planning Applications | ScraperWiki">Irish Planning Applications</a> and <a href="http://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/2ndeplan41_1/" title="2ndeplan41 | ScraperWiki">2ndeplan41</a>).</li>
<li>An application feed from Fingal County Council's <a href="http://data.fingal.ie/" title="Fingal Open Data">Open Data portal</a>.</li>
<li>An application dump, covering six RoI counties, provided by the Local Government Computer Services Board (used with permission, but not yet available under an open license - we're working on it ;)</li>
</ul>
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<p>Dummy page</p>
<p>
If you have any questions, be it of technical nature or concerning the planning applications data, please contact <a href="http://www.deri.ie/about/team/member/michael_hausenblas/" title="DERI Galway - Dr. Michael Hausenblas">Michael Hausenblas</a> at DERI, NUI Galway.</p>

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