Community features Transitland If you work with transit data you may be aware of GTFS. This format allows transit authorities to share structured information about their networks and vehicles in a common format. Transitland makes finding and extracting data from those feeds a breeze. TransitlandA community-edited data
Community features UK places, buildings and constituencies Alasdair Rae has compiled and shared a variety of data related to the UK, including places, buildings and constituencies. A reminder of some data I've shared - 42,000 places of Great Britain (shp, geojson, gpkg) https://t.co/k9uY3105xv - Buildings
Community features High-res data updates to Living Atlas World Elevation Layers Esri have updated their terrain layers with much higher resolution data, making a huge difference in some parts of the world. High resolution data updates to Living Atlas World Elevation Layers (June 2019)Rajinder NagiArcGIS Blog
Community features Netherlands building data in PostgreSQL and GeoPackage formats Delft University of Technology has helped pull together GeoPackage and PostgreSQL downloads for 3D building data in the Netherlands. Building quality is LOD1, which are effectively extruded polygons. 3D BAG3D Basisregistratie Adressen en Gebouwen (BAG)
Community features First batch of 1m LIDAR data for England's full coverage In December 2017 the Environment Agency announced their 3-year plan to deliver a 1m LIDAR dataset that covers the whole of England. Fast forward to today and they’ve released their first batch of data from the 17/18 winter flying season (they fly
Community features New Zealand releases 10s of thousands of old aerial photographs The National Library and Alexander Turnbull Library in New Zealand have released nearly 50,000 old aerial photographs, free to use under a CC-BY licence. I’m yet to dig through them all (is that even possible?) but no doubt these will be of
Community features Toronto light poles — traffic and street lights I’m sucker for cool urban infrastructure datasets and this one from the City of Toronto is a great one. They’ve also released an impermeable surface dataset indicating areas in the city that will cause water runoff. I’m looking forward to the
Community features 3D model of Dublin's Docklands Dublin have released a 3D model of the Docklands area after the data was pulled together for a recent hack event. Unfortunately it’s only available in FBX format, though I suppose it’s better than nothing. Perhaps they’ll consider CityGML or CityJSON
Community features All official streets and addresses in Belgium If you know anything about spatial data in the UK then you may know that open address data is… complicated. If only we could be more like Belgium, who have recently released an open addresses dataset. Lucky them! FOD BOSA DG DT - Open