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As many can probably appriciate nearby.org.uk (and trigtools.co.uk) has built up a huge data holding, I have basically made this available on an-hoc on-request basis, but it really is time I started to formalize it.
Unless otherwise noted these are made available under a Creative Commons by-sa 2.5 licence. In a nut shell use as you like, but credit nearby.org.uk and if you build upon the data then share that. (does not mean you have to share your whole app, just the data based upon this)
Note however with few exceptions these datasets are all downloaded (admitted they may have been converted and/or processed), so to can download them from the same place I did.
UK Sector Postcodes | zipped CSV | |
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The approximate center of each each sector postcode (the full postcode minus the last 2 letters, approx accuracy 2km), quoted in wgs84 lat/long. | ||
Date Created: June 2005 | Source Dataset: circa '95 | Download Page* |
*Due to the nature of the dataset I have to request you signup for a API key to download. | ||
British Isles County Outlines and Centoids | TXT files (inc. zipped) | |
Approximate outlines of counties* in the British Isles in simple text listing (e.g. for GSAK) in WGS84 Lat/Long pairs. Also includes CSV and XML for centoids. | ||
Date Created: May 2005 | Source Dataset: circa '94 | Download Page |
*GB : Ceramonial counties, NI: one polygon, RoI: counties | ||
UK Placename gazetteer | zipped mySQL script | |
The UK
GNS Database,
processed for ease of use. Stripped to the (IMHO) most interesting
columns,
reduced to only placenames with most duplicates removed. And GB
eastings/northings and county columns added. See in action in the
Paper Maps section. At somepoint would like to try the same with the geonames database, let me know if interested. Update: 2006-10-27, datafile
updated as original was missing large towns/cities, just overwrite your old table! |
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Date Created: April 2006 | Source Dataset: 2006-02-27 | Download File |
Static Gridlines for Google Earth | KMZ files | |
Overlays the British National Grid and the Irish Grid on the Google Globe. I created a networklink that displays the grid as you move around the country, when zoomed out uses static layers (which are also slightly more visually pleasing) to save processing. So I make them available separately, Download the KMZ's below: (also viewable directly in Google Maps!) | ||
Date Created: Jan 2006 | Source Dataset: n/a | Great Britain (inc 10k
lines!) . Ireland (inc 10k lines!) |
World Country Bounding Boxes | CSV file | |
List counties in the world, with their approximate bounding boxes in lat/long format. Manually ordered in such a way so as allow the last match to be the most likly (because it uses rectangles to represent countries, will never be perfect). IIRC sourced from a DEMIS demo application. See my post to Google Maps API group for an example use, or see in action at the coordinate converter. | ||
Date Created: Mar 2005 | Source Dataset: ?? | Download File |
Other datasets...
available on request.
- Landranger/Explorer Coverages
- Layers from the Location Search
- Variations on postcode dataset (eg eastings/northing, towns etc)
- Many others.... (that I got bored listing)
Programs/Source Code
- WGS84 Lat/Long <=> OSGB36 Grid References
- As PHP code (from geograph.org.uk code. CVS backup)
- As JS code
- {original source}
- Perl Code available on request
- (Using Geography::NationalGrid CPAN Module and transformations adopted from PHP code above)
- Also recommended:
- Jcoord (Java) JScoord (JavaScript) PHPcoord (PHP)
- carabus.co.uk (javascript includes Radio Ham conversions)
- WGS84 Lat/Long <=> Irish Grid References
- As PHP code (available in geograph.org.uk CVS source)
- As JS code
- Perl Code available on request
- (Using Geography::NationalGrid CPAN Module and transformations adopted from PHP code above)
- Also recommended:
Coordinate Convertion Programs
If its pure Co-ordinate converstion you are after then see these programs: (mainly UK coordinates)
- gps.gov.uk (precise)
- Java British National Grid Converter
- Co-ordinate Converter program
- OSGB POS
- (Try also WGS84 to OSGB36 Grid Ref Popup)
Other Sources of information
- nearby.org.uk API (coordinate converter and geocoder)
- geograph.org.uk API
- Map Series and Coverages (including Time line Maps)
Download Websites
May as well use this page for some bookmarks to interesting downloads!