search

a-b-street / abstreet

Transportation planning and traffic simulation software for creating cities friendlier to walking, biking, and public transit
https://a-b-street.github.io/docs/
Apache License 2.0
7.76k stars 345 forks source link

New UK data sources #1017

Open dabreegster opened 2 years ago

dabreegster commented 2 years ago

@mem48 pointed me towards some datasets for the UK. https://uprn.uk/ could help towards estimating number of housing units per building for weighting trips to/from homes. Relatedly I stumbled on https://longair.net/blog/2021/08/23/open-data-gb-postcode-unit-boundaries/.

There's also a geotiff with elevation data based on https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-government/products/terrain-50. It should hopefully be very easy to add to https://github.com/eldang/elevation_lookups.

I'll try out both when I have time, but writing down the links before I forget

mem48 commented 2 years ago

You may also be interested in https://github.com/ITSLeeds/OpenPostcodes which was my attempt to make postcode boundaries. Combined with the new data mentioned above you could get high quality results.

mem48 commented 2 years ago

Also a word of warning, read the licences very carefully. Many OS Royal Mail licenses prohibit the reverse Engineering of their commercial data. I'm not sure if this blog post appreciates they may be in breach of the license agreement.