Re: Sports Opportunities "Activity use cases" and the LGA Service Directory Schema

Hi all,

I'm sorry I couldn't join your previous discussion - I'm just back
from holiday this morning.

Over at OpenTrack, we're busy trying to give a unique UUID and a
unique persistent nickname to everything in the world of Athletics.
Specifically
(a) every running track, running clubhouse and competition cross
country course in the UK and (soon) Europe; and
(b) every competition-organising body:  2000+ UK registered clubs,
dozens of leagues, 60-odd coumty associations, and more
committees-for-the-sole-purpose-of-organising-some-race than you would
ever suspect existed.

A certain amount of open data is available here
  https://opentrack.info/
....and the general spiel is here...
  http://opentrack.run/

In particular we have hard, up to date details on the 531 certified
athletics tracks.  By contrast, last time I looked, Active Places had
400ish "athletics track" records of which less than 100 were "real"!,
with some location and description.

I am hoping that this will evolve into a crowdsourced site specific to
running and athletics in 2017, with strong incentives for clubs to
fill things in.  UK Athletics is very keen to use crowdsourcing to
gather info about the state of each facility, and to rate the service
it provides.   We're not that fussy about schemas and it's not the
most urgent thing, but we do want to have CSV and JSON downloads for
all tracks available at all times, and to publish some standard, in
case another country wants to tell us about facilities in bulk.

If this can tie up with you in some useful way, we would be delighted
to discuss it.  In particular if we are dealing with the same entities
(tracks, clubs, organisations) we would love to store any cross
references and help build up the data.

I'll try to answer questions on the list, and am happy to try to meet
up with anyone in the London area if we can help.

Andy Robinson
ReportLab

Received on Wednesday, 14 December 2016 17:17:27 UTC