Quickstart guide for developers

[psd]

We need a quickstart guide for the platform to help new developers understand and try-out a platform.

We can develop some content and test it with users before moving it onto the platform: https://digital-land.github.io/quickstart/

Outline:

• Introducing the platform
  • examples using the API
  • examples of downloading data
  • seeing the availability and quality of data on the platform
  • history, provenance and documents
• Demos using the platform:
  • Land Use Calculator
  • Conservation areas in Barnet
• Examples of using the platform in different languages:
  • HTML/JavaScript
  • Python
  • QGIS
  • PowerBI
  • Excel
  • services like https://felt.com
• Planning and Data
  • Understanding the planning and housing systems in England
  • Contributing your needs for data to identify and design data on the platform
  • Other sources of planning and related data Magic Maps, OS, OSM
• Things you can build using planning data
  • Innovation fund case studies and PropTech companies
  • Ideas for fun-hacks
  • Bigger challenges

Writing quick start guides

• How to write a getting started guide
• 10 tips for creating quick-start guides
• What Is a Quickstart Guide and How To Write One

[DilwoarH]

@psd - We should add MCP servers to the list. This will allow people who are building things with AI to connect with us easily.

I did a quick demo here: https://www.loom.com/share/6279dddfbf894483adc1ee4feb116541

Code can be found here: https://github.com/DilwoarH/planning-data-mcp-server