Collected data will be relevant to all those involved in the management, construction, planning and conservation of London’s fabric. Data visualizations will provide a free educational resource for residents and schools, and celebrate the richness and diversity of the capital’s buildings and of our collective knowledge of the present and past. The project also aims to harness, channel and highlight the vast body of untapped knowledge about the built fabric and its evolution, held within the conservation, historical research and community planning sectors. The Open Data Institute's Principles for strengthening our data infrastructure and its Openness principles for handling personal data The tower was first built after the Norman Conquest in 1066 AD. William the Conqueror built three fortresses, the tower being one, to help protect the City's east entrance from the river.

It could also be used to help you start discussions on English history, including some of the famous figures who were imprisoned there. Another great activity for KS1, is our Great Fire of London newspaper report reading comprehension. We have created in the style of how we think newspapers might have looked in 1666, for added authenticity. Great Fire of London KS1 Newspaper Report Reading Comprehension Samuel Pepys Diary Templates Colouring London, and the Colouring Cities Research Programme (CCRP) , are research-led initiatives managed by The A lan Turing Institute (ATI) , the UK's national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, which is based in the British Library, London. OSMM building footprints are contained within the OS MasterMap Topography Layer product, overseen by the UK's department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and managed by Ordnance Survey, the UK’s national mapping agency . These also provide information on spatial location, building geometry, floor area, perimeter and number and size and shape of walls, and can assist in the inference of other characteristics, such as age, height and 3D form. Extrusions from footprints can also be used to generate simple 3D models.

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Really young children can use them to learn about colours, how to stay inside the lines and how to combine certain shades. Colouring also improves their vision and fine motor skills that is directly linked to early writing skills. It’s a great creative exercise for coordination and concentration, not to mention how exciting it is to create something from almost scratch. Getting a sense of accomplishment helps kids develop healthy self-esteem from an early age. If you want to edit data y ou just need to be over 13 to sign up or, if you're younger, to have a parent or guardian do this for you. (We're working on a teacher sign up for schools). Every entry is valuable to us, however we are looking for data that's as accurate as possible. Our easiest category to add to is the 'Community' section' which includes questions on how well you think different types of building work. We've included this both to capture information on building quality and performance, and to encourage residents and schools to join in. Interpreting a range of sources of geographical information, including maps and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Though OpenStreetMap provides an enormously important repository for open data on cities, at a global level, with its work playing a crucial part in the opening up of UK infrastructure data, the coverage, accuracy and precision of crowdsourced footprints for the UK data does not currently compare with OSMM's rigorously controlled and updated footprints, produced by mapping experts nor with OSMM's 100% coverage across Britain. These factors are extremely important in the generation of high quality, volume for use scientific analysis and modelling.

Updating data to increase accuracy is another important but complex issue. This relies on access to Ordnance building footprint updates each year. This is most relevant to data relating to, for example, land use and planning status, where change is relatively frequent in contrast say to building age, which will only require updating until the building is demolished or a major extension added. If you're a resident the easiest way you can help us is by just adding information on the physical characteristics of your home or street, and telling us of any buildings you think work well. If you're a civic society, or interested in historical research we'd love your help with our 'Age' and 'Dynamics' categories. If you're a school you could make a huge contribution by adding information on land use and storeys (schools were in fact main contributors to Britain's first land use survey run at the London School of Economics in the 1930s). If you're an architecture student perhaps you could upload relevant statistics from your course work? Give children the chance to describe their crown. What is the crown made of? How valuable is the material? Do the jewels have any special powers? There's plenty of opportunity here to get children building their vocabularies and thinking creatively. However rapid progress is improving global scale of footprint coverage is being made through Microsoft/Bing’s collaboration with OSM, and its application of artificial intelligence to satellite imagery, to generate open footprints. This has so far produced open footprint datasets for the US, Canada, Uganda and Australia, which are being integrated by OSM, alongside open street-network and international national mapping agency data (where available) as well as other types of open, crowdsourced, geoinformation. Using fieldwork to observe, measure, record and present the human features in the local area using plans and digital technologies.Though anyone can experiment and innovate with our code, the Colouring Cities Research Programme (CCRP)has been set-up as a mechanism to support research-led reproduction. This is a branded programme designed to support international research institutions wishing to reproduce the concept and code, and which focuses on UN New Urban Agenda issues. Our current CCRP partners are: The American University of Beirut (Colouring Beirut); The University of Bahrain & the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities (Colouring Bahrain); The University of New South Wales (Colouring Australia); The National Technical University of Athens (Colouring Athens); The Leibniz Institute for Ecological Urban and Regional Development (Colouring Dresden); King’s College London & Institut Teknologi Bandung (Colouring Indonesia), and The Colour Research Institute, China Academy of Art. The Society’s education team hasworkedin partnership with the Colouring London team at The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, Historic England and the RIBA, to develop a series of resources for teachers showing how to incorporate Colouring London into the curriculum:

Indication of levels of uncertainty e.g earliest or latest possible construction date. Further consultation is known to be required here with experts involved in working with each type of data. Colouring London is a free knowledge exchange platform designed to provide over fifty types of open data on buildings in the city, to help make the city more sustainable.

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Colouring London aims to collect information on every building in London, to help make the city more sustainable.

Using colour also helps to firmly demonstrate the importance of working across the arts, humanities and science, in the development of tools designed to aid urban problem-solving and the development of sustainable cities.Understanding, through the use of detailed place-based exemplars at the local scale the issues around population and urbanisation. You can also explore our original ebook story, Samuel Pepys’ story– to give children a fuller understanding of an eye-witness account. Also great for guided reading. Great Fire of London Samuel Pepy’s Story eBook Great Fire of London KS1 Activities and Resources William II built a stone wall around the tower in 1097, Richard the Lionheart later added a moat for extra safety.