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Analysing Sewage Information from the UK Environment Agency
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Constituency data fails to download #9

Closed V2G-EVSE closed 1 year ago

V2G-EVSE commented 1 year ago

Never having used Node before I had to install a long list of undocumented stuff I've never previously heard of. Eventually make seemed to work, however...

When it came to download the constituency data the install ground to a halt. It seems the location of said data has changed?

Jim

top-poop commented 1 year ago

Hi - as much as I would love everyone to be able to access this information, it is true that some things move around. I can't really support the software, it is open really for transparency.

If you had a specific issue that you wanted to address (other than can't find the data) I'd be very happy to look into it.

In particular, lots of the urls of data sources seem to change a lot, which is contrary to government guidelines, so every do often we have to hunt the Internet and track them down again.

https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI https://gcs.civilservice.gov.uk/blog/link-shorteners-the-long-and-short-of-why-you-shouldnt-use-them/

V2G-EVSE commented 1 year ago

I can find the data, but whether it's still in the format you expect I cannot say as yet. I've no idea when it moved.

Your main site says "If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly", so I did as suggested!

The specific issue that caused me to come here can be summarised as follows:

https://twitter.com/jim_hunt/status/1627105743966031872

What is the reason for the alleged "Unknown River" in South West England?

TOTP-SWW-2021

top-poop commented 1 year ago

Hi - There is a very simple explanation for this. The consent information, as linked in the README - "Consented Discharges with Conditions" - contains permit information for each water company. The permits for south west water list the "receiving water" as "Unknown" for 51 sites, for the consents for 2021.

Although "Unknown" clearly isn't a single river - it is indicative that South West Water and the Environment Agency haven't bothered to record where the sewage is going.

V2G-EVSE commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the eminently understandable explanation.

Now to discover what South West Water's explanation is...

Jim

top-poop commented 1 year ago

You are welcome - I wish you luck - I'd appreciate if you could let us know how you get on, or any people you found that were useful to contact.