Inventing with open data to address flood

​Invention, where to start? How about start with something free - open data? In the UK, we are in luck. The United Kingdom is the country ranked #1 at the Global Open Data Index: 

A snapshop from http://index.okfn.org/place/

How much open data we can find and piece together around "flood" as a topic? After all, flood has killed people and animals, destroying infrastructures and homes and it spreads infectious diseases.

What would you make of:

• historical flood map: http://data.gov.uk/dataset/historic-flood-map-afa013)
  
• real time flood data: in CSV, in API
• locations of rivers and towns: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html
• other water infrastructure (canal, resevoirs...): http://www.geostore.com/environment-agency/WebStore?xml=environment-agency/xml/ogcDataDownload.xml
• and more http://datahub.io/dataset?q=flood

Where would you take it next? Disease surveillance and waterbourne outbreaks? Is there anything on World Health Organisation that you can use to derive some intelligence: http://apps.who.int/gho/data/?theme=home

We'd be intrigue to know hear from you on your citizen flood watching/prevention effort! Share with us in the comment below or tweet to us @citizeninventor