As part of the ongoing modernisation of Common Agricultural Policy scheme administration, the Rural Payments Agency has built a Rural Land Register which holds digital maps of all registered land parcels. Ability to download these maps would be useful
Take the farmers market to the web - have a searchable map of local food producers. Often small producers or farm shops don't have websites so finding out about them can be difficult. For example try finding a fish shop outside of a city these days....
I read an article about the last Foot and Mouth outbreak in the UK. It mentioned a full report was commissioned after the 1967 Foot & Mouth outbreak - which gave all the information about acting quicky if Foot & Mouth is suspected. However, the 1967 F&M report was left on a shelf gather...