Questions tagged [uk]
UK is short for the United Kingdom, which itself is short for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; also called Britain
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Statistically who gets higher **average** income, an employed engineer or an IT startup founder?
Starting your own startup is a great idea, you may become as rich as Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg. Wait... or may not. It of course depends on your skills and perspiration they ...
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Looking for non-domestic building floor areas in Scotland
Is there an equivalent of the Valuation Office Agency Rating List for Scotland? I've looked on the SAA website, but can only find a way to download rateable values for individual properties. No floor ...
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List of all UK bank holidays for the last 100 years
I'm after a list of all bank holidays, ideally separate lists for England, Wales, Scotland, NI, that include Date, Bank Holiday name. I can find individual years' worth, or a decade or two, but I'm ...
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Seeking any free, mappable real-time data which updates frequently (UK based is nice, but not necessary)
I am looking for a free data feed (with HTTP(S) API) which I can use for various demos:
something that I can map (both as markers and a heat-map)
and chart the values
real-time, and at least part of ...
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UK food nutrition data
I am building a small project based on building recipes and tracking nutrition. I want to be able to get correct data for foods that you can normally buy in shops in the UK by using the barcode. I am ...
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Free, real-time, aviation data API
Similar to my question Free source of AIS data (API), but for aviation.
I am looking for a free, real-time, API for positions of aircraft. Ideally near London City airport, failing that, UK airports; ...
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Seeking 1890 County Shapefiles of Scotland
I am struggling to find the county border shapefiles for Scotland that came into effect in 1890. I keep finding "counties before 1890" when googling. So, the file I'm looking for does not include a ...
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Aquifers and borehole wells in the UK
I want to be able to plot aquifers and borehole wells in the UK. I need to find out how far each aquifer and borehole well is from surrounding buildings and infrastructure.
Is the only way to do this ...
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British pubs & restaurants : opening times and location
Google maps shows nearby pubs and restaurants. But it does not show if they are currently open, which is frustrating at some times of day.
If I google search for the establishment, they often have ...
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Carbon emissions data for UK companies (and beyond UK too)
I am searching for a carbon efficiency reporting for UK government. To my understanding this data should have been reported in the past as per the CRC scheme in this or similar pages. However it ...
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Looking for DEM, DTM, DSM for northern England
I'm looking for DEM or similar (DSM, DTM) from which to make a slope map to identify suitable paragliding hills in an area of northern England - the Yorkshire Dales.
I would like to be able to ...
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average (annual) salaries for occupations in the UK
I have occupations like this:
Joiner
Fitter
Smelter
Electician
and would like to obtain rough average (annual) salaries in the UK. Is anyone aware of such dataset(s)? Thanks!
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Seeking Policy Restrictions Data in London and South East?
I am researching various GIS data sources for London (UK). I was wondering whether anybody can give me pointers of where to get aggregated planning and policy restrictions data i.e. data that shows ...
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Which pub sells which beer in the UK?
Does anyone know of a reliable source of up to date data?
Especially for craft beers & real ale, rather than Fosters/Carlsberg, etc, although data on those is welcome too (and whisky, now that I ...
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Free source of AIS data (API)
The automatic identification system (AIS) is an automatic tracking system that uses transponders on ships to locate them. There are also databases that provide information about the ship — size, type, ...
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Seeking reservoir data set for UK?
I was looking for reservoir data to understand who owns which reservoir, could not find it over the internet.
Anybody knows where I can find it?
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London Fare Zones spatial data
Does anyone know if the London Fare Zones are available as a spatial data set?
An example of a spatial data set would be:
Shapefile
KML
GeoJSON
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Historical data on forests and land use in the United Kingdom [closed]
EDIT: I have posted this question to the history.SE after a discussion on that site's meta.
Are there any sources of historical land use/land cover data for the United Kingdom? I'm specifically ...
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Seeking shapefiles on publicly owned land in UK?
Where can I find shapefiles of land owned by the National Health Service (NHS), Local authorities, universities and Ministry of Defence (MOD)?
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Where I can find all settlement boundaries for United Kingdom?
I'm looking for a dataset containing settlement boundaries for United Kingdoms.
In short example I'm looking for a dataset that would allow me to draw something like the following (orange line):
(...
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Largest cities in the UK? [duplicate]
I am looking for an up to date list of say the largest 25 cities in the UK by population.
Searching around on Google, most lists seem to be a few years outdated, and some don't even specify last ...
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Looking for dataset of the coordinates of the UK NUTS Levels
I cannot find the coordinates of the UK NUTS levels. There are resources which tell what the name and the code of NUTS regions are. But they do not provide what are their coordinates! I need a dataset ...
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Requesting Workplace accident data from the UK Government
In the U.K. the Health and Safety Executive collects workplace accidents and fatalities data. They publish aggregated summaries but not the raw data.
How and to whom do I request the raw data?
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UK boundary data shapefiles where features have attributes pointing to their parent subdivision?
I know similar questions have been asked before but none have given me exactly what I need. I am trying to find boundary shapefile data for the UK which splits different subdivisons into different ...
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Population and GDP of the UK nations 1950-today
I'm looking for the population and GDP of the UK nations (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) from the 1950s to today, ideally at the yearly level. Any tip?
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Where is the official source for UK population + age profiles data
I am looking for the latest UK population data at the lowest possible level (output area?) to include age profile breakdowns (eg 18-25, 25-30, 30+ etc).
Naturally I have googled the topic, and I'm ...
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Does anyone know if/ where I can download shapefiles for bus routes in Cardiff?
Had a look on OSM and various sources on google, however, there does not appear to be any obvious websites.
I specially want the number 52 bus route for this current task but if there is a general ...
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UK monthly weather data
Is anyone aware of any monthly UK weather data based on grids, easting northing or even postcodes? Any pointers would be very much appreciated. Many thanks!
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Historic data on UK roads 1950-2010
I'm looking for data about roads in the UK. OS Open Roads is a great spatial dataset with detailed shapefiles, but it doesn't contain temporal information. I would like to find a dataset with roads ...
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Functional urban areas in the UK
I want to perform an analysis on urban areas in the UK. As, indeed, urban areas can be defined in multiple ways, I would like to rely on some well-accepted definitions and polygons.
I found this EU ...
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UK MoD Airfields and Firing Ranges
I'm trying to source shapefiles for UK Ministry of Defence airfields and firing ranges. Would anyone have an idea where to get them?
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How to link postcode to broader geographical area in the United Kingdom
I have a dataset of companies, where one of the variables is its postcode. I want to link this postcode to a broader geographical unit. I have shapes file that enables me to map such broader ...
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Annual reports from UK public companies
How can I get the 'annual report and accounts' from the top 500 listed (public) companies in the UK? (They are valuable data, despite them being PDFs.)
We looked at scraping annualreports.com but it ...
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Open information on UK properties
I'm looking to find any open data on UK properties.
I have already looked at all the VOA datasets. And I am aware that the commercial side of the land registry will be becoming free to access towards ...
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UK demographic data at full or outer postcode level
Is anyone aware of any open UK demographic data (England would be sufficient) at full or out postcode level?
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UK Postcode Data by City, Town, Villiage
I have been searching for the last few days and have found a number of datasets but nothing that meets my needs.
Effectively I need a table to postcodes that contain a flag on if it exists within a ...
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A free API for rock climbing locations?
Is there a free API for rock climbing locations in the UK? What I'm thinking of is an API which gets information along the lines of ukclimbing.com, e.g. https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/crag.php?id=...
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Seeking habitat data for UK
I am currently looking to analyse the effects of habitat on animal movement and was wondering whether there is any freely downloadable high resolution (preferably <10m) habitat raster data (e.g. ...
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Extracting Residential Building (UK Datasets)
I am working with building polygon data of a city in England. The data are from EDINA Digimap's Topography Mastermap. I extracted the 'Building' attribute from 'DescriptiveGroup' fields to get ...
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Countryside Stewardship Water Quality Priority Areas (England)
I'm trying to acquire the 'Countryside Stewardship Water Quality Priority Areas (England)' which can be viewed here under Countryside Stewardship Targeting & Scoring Layers> Water (also shown ...
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Digital terrain models for Scotland at 1m resolution or less
The following link allows you to download a composite 2m DSM/DTM:
2m LIDAR Composite DSM & DTM for Scotland
Are there any freely available datasets containing DTMs which are in <= 1m ...
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UK Income and population by POSTCODES
I searching the data of the population + the income of the person in the post codes area for any digit layer in UK.
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How to find DEM data with attribute table for Brighton UK
Where can I find accurate DEM data of Brighton UK (with an attribute table) to be used in ARC GIS, being used for a university GIS project and have struggled to find this data.
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Aerial photos of different tide heights
I'm looking for aerial photos taken at different tide heights of Holy Island, Northumberland, UK. Are these available anywhere?
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UK Cities and Towns
I've scoured the internet (including stack exchange) and trialled a few datasets but none have suited my needs. I'm after UK town and city names with long/lat positions and populations (so I can style ...
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List of all UK political party/politician facebook pages
I'm working on a Chrome extension to analyse Facebook advert targetting by political parties, in the run-up to the 2017 UK general election. (https://whotargets.me)
In order to conduct our analysis, ...
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UK flight paths
There seems to be some data for the US, but is there any vector data for UK flight paths?
The best case scenario is to obtain separate lines/polygons for different altitudes (I only need 0-1000m). 1 ...
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UK cities longitude and latitude details
I require a list of data on UK cities giving longitude and latitude details. Preferably in CSV or Excel format.
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Is there a set of data points available to draw an outline of the coast of the British Isles?
I would like to plot a map of the coastline of the British Isles using gnuplot, for which I need a data set of points along the coast. Is this available in csv form, please, or help to convert it to ...
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Can anyone use this Journalism tool on UK Public Bodies?
Are you looking for information on public bodies: especially links to their website and FOI request on "what do they know"?
