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