Putting UK Flooding Alerts Onto Twitter #UKBLC14

As part of BlueLightCamp '14, a group of civil servants, hackers, and emergency service workers got together for a weekend of furious creation.

I decided to look at flooding data. The recent floods in the UK are a brutal remember of the realities of climate change and our poor stewardship of the nation's waterways.

The UK Government has a large collection of Flooding Data online - including some very detailed river-by-river data.

Initially, we thought it would be a great idea if every river in the country could Tweet. Telling local residents how high its water levels were and how likely it was to flood.

Unfortunately, the data isn't in brilliant shape. It's hard to find a reference guide to see what the data mean, where the measuring stations are, and which levels indicated likely flooding.