September 13th, 2013
Greater Expectations’ looks at how poverty and disadvantage still wreak havoc on children’s lives, causing them to lag far behind their more affluent peers in almost all areas of their lives, from health to education, early development to housing. It revisits the work of a groundbreaking study published in 1973 – ‘Born to Fail’.
Read more at: www.ncb.org.uk/greaterexpectations
Beautiful work by our very own Tim Sanders :)
January 18th, 2013
A whole year has gone past on this site and only the Mardi Gras seems to have happened! Well then, long live Mardi Gras! Long live excess before hardship! … better wear a mask, so you can say you weren’t there!
To all common Knowledge’s friends – please come to our party.
This year it’s a masquerade.. so bring an outlandish mask if you can but if you forget we’ll give you one.
on: Tuesday February 12th 2013 from 6pm to 11pm
in: the Michael Young Room
at: 18 Victoria Park Square
Bethnal Green, London E2 9PF
Fun, Food and Music
Bring a bottle – Wear a mask (or we can provide one)
Bethnal Green tube station is nearby (Central Line). Bethnal Green
railway station is 8 mins walk (Liv.St to Chingford etc line)
Buses D3, D6, 8, 106, 254, 309. 388. Call 07870 460 355 if you need help
with the steps.
It’s here! Say you’ll be there too on the 12th. RSVP info at commonknowledge dot org dot uk
February 12th, 2012
Common Knowledge’s famous Mardi Gras Party is on Tuesday 21st February from 6pm till eleven.
Food and music a-plenty… just please bring a bottle.
If you havn’t had an invite and want one or if you want to do that RSVP thing then mail us now!
September 10th, 2011
I don’t know how many people know about this but the Ordnance Survey now give away astonishing mapping tools as part of their Open Data. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think this came out of Gordon Brown enlisting Tim Berners-Lee to see how government could free up data it held to help the economy. I have now used it for postcodes.
Up until now the only way I knew of confirming a postcode inside a London Borough was through the Post Office Address File (PAF) which is resold by people like Quick Address Systems to junk mail (snail-mail) houses for hundreds or thousands of semolians.
If you go to Ordnance Survey’s download page you’ll see Code Point Open which is what I used. Every postcode in the country, it’s co-ordinates and the Administrative district and ward not to mention National Health area.
Currently I’m using it for a CAB website where people can see if they live in the borough or not from their postcode… or which CAB they should go to….
But look at some of the other datasets… it really has some exciting possibilities.
The Government Open Data licence reads just like the GNU Open Source licence – you’re free to use the data how you like as long as you attribute the source and don’t use it for evil. ;-)
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