General Data

General Data
This document provides links to a wide range of freely available data that might be useful
to look at in relation to your chosen theme and combine with satellite data to help with your
Longitude Explorer ideas.
Other Data
This data is listed in alphabetical order. Please scan through and find datasets that might be useful to you.
Name
Description
Link
Aberdeen Council
multi
Birmingham Council
multi
http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/open-data
British Geological Survey
BGS Linked Data
http://data.bgs.ac.uk/
CKAN
Data Catalogues
http://datacatalogs.org/dataset
DBpedia
dbpedia
http://wiki.dbpedia.org/Datasets
http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/open_data/o
pen_data_home.asp
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/
Eurostats
Eurostats
portal/government_finance_statistics/introduct
ion
Food Standards Agency
UK Food Hygiene
http://ratings.food.gov.uk/open-data/en-GB
Geonames
Geonames
http://www.geonames.org/
GIST
Government Interrogating
Spending Tool
http://www.gist.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/
git - the simple guide
Tutorial
http://rogerdudler.github.io/git-guide/
Github Code School - Try git
Tutorial
http://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1
Github Code Search API
API
https://github.com/blog/1564-code-search-api
Global Entrepreneurship
Monitor
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
http://www.gemconsortium.org/docs/cat/37/d
ata
Google
Google maps API
https://developers.google.com/maps/faq
Google
Public Data directory
http://www.google.co.uk/publicdata/directory
Gov.uk
Education data
http://education.data.gov.uk/
gov.uk
Legislation data
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/
Guardian
Guardian data store
http://www.guardian.co.uk/data
Guardian
Health and Social Care
Information Centre
Health and Social Care
Information Centre
Human Development
Reports
International
Telecommunications Union
Mashery
http://guardian.mashery.com/
multi
http://www.hscic.gov.uk/transparency
NHS
http://www.ic.nhs.uk/datasets
multi
http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/
Statistics
http://www.itu.int/en/ITUD/Statistics/Pages/stat/default.aspx
International Monetary
World Economic Outlook
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/201
Fund
Database
3/01/weodata/index.aspx
Kent Council
multi
Lambeth Council
multi
Land Registry
Public Data
Lexvo
Lexvo linked data
http://www.lexvo.org/
Litchfield Council
Litchfield Open Data
http://www2.lichfielddc.gov.uk/data/
LOGD
Linking Open Government Data
http://logd.tw.rpi.edu/
London Gazette
London Gazette data
London.gov.uk
multi
http://data.london.gov.uk/
Manchester Council
Manchester public data
http://datagm.org.uk/
Manchester Council
multi
http://opendatamanchester.org.uk/
Met office
Met Office Open data
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/datapoint
Net Index
Household Download Index
http://www.netindex.com/
http://www.kent.gov.uk/your_council/open_da
ta.aspx
http://lambethopendata.wordpress.com/2012/
07/03/using-lambeth-open-data/
http://www.landregistry.gov.uk/market-trenddata
http://www.londongazette.co.uk/mashup/gazettesdata.htm
http://www.northdevon.gov.uk/index/lgcl_cou
North Devon Council
North Devon Open Data
ncil_government_and_democracy/nonlgcl_ope
n_data.htm
Nottingham Council
Open data Nottingham
http://www.opendatanottingham.org.uk/
OCLC
Dewy data on the web
http://dewey.info/
Open Corporates
multi
http://opencorporates.com/
Open Election data Project
Open Election data Project
http://openelectiondata.org/parties
Open data search
http://datahub.io/
Open Knowledge
Foundation
Open University
OU Linked Data - publications,
courses and Audio/Video material
http://data.open.ac.uk/
Openly Local
Local data UK
http://openlylocal.com/councils/open
Ordnance Survey
Ordnance Survey
http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/
OS Open Space
API
Our airports .com
Our Airports Open data
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/
web-services/os-openspace/api/index.html
http://www.ourairports.com/
street-level crime and outcome
Police UK
information, broken down by
http://data.police.uk/
police force and year
Postcodes
Postcodes
http://www.uk-postcodes.com/
Programmable Web
API dashboard
http://www.programmableweb.com/apis
resist
Street level crime reports for
England and Wales
Spogo
multi
TFL (Transport for London)
TFL Open data
The City of Edinburgh
Council
multi
http://datahub.io/dataset/rkb-explorer-crime
https://spogo.co.uk/developer-area
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/businessandpartners/syn
dication/16492.aspx
http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/opendata
http://www.geonames.org/ontology/document
The Semantic web
Geo names
Trafford Council
multi
http://www.trafford.gov.uk/opendata/
Transparency International
http://datahub.io/dataset/transparency-linked-
Linked Data
data
Transparency International
ation.html
Travel Line open data
Travel line open data
http://travelinedata.org.uk/datausers.htm
UK Government Data
multiple
http://data.gov.uk/data
UK National Statistics
multi
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/hub/index.html
UK Web Archive
multi
http://data.webarchive.org.uk/opendata/
Virtually combines Global LAM
VIAF (Virtual International
(Library Archives Museum) name
Authority File)
authority files into a single name
http://viaf.org/viaf/data/
authority service.
Voluntary Sector Cuts
multi
http://voluntarysectorcuts.org.uk/
Warwickshire Council
multi
http://opendata.warwickshire.gov.uk/
Wikipedia
Wikipedia API
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page
World Bank
World Bank data sets
http://worldbank.270a.info/.html
Originally compiled by Rewired State