I wonder if this will finally free-up all the real-time gauge data from hundreds of sites across the country that the EA and the UKMO have access to?

What's the point of these organisations squirreling away this data, when some entrepreneur with a bit of vision, and who can put a team together with the requisite skills in Hydrology, GIS and mobile software development, can produce a flood alert system based on postcodes that really works?

http://www.theguardian.com/technolog...data-maps-apps