Winter Gritting Routes for Derby City Council Roads

Derby City Council maintains this geospatial dataset of winter gritting routes. It shows lines representing roads treated by the council during icy conditions, with separate colors indicating routes gritted by other agencies. The data is provided under an OGL-UK-3.0 license and was last updated on July 8, 2026.

Use Cases

• Plan winter road maintenance resource allocation based on designated gritting routes.
• Analyze spatial coverage of council gritting services based on the recorded line data.
• Coordinate with other agencies by visualizing their separate gritting routes in another color.
• Model winter road safety risks by mapping treated versus untreated road networks.

Strengths

• Includes routes gritted by other agencies, indicated by a separate color.
• Last update timestamp is precisely recorded as 2026-07-08 13:32:05.213096.
• Data is provided in standard geospatial web service formats (WMS, WFS).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Derby City Council

Collection Method

Operational records of gritting routes, likely from council vehicles or planning systems.

Time Range

Applicable for winter periods, but specific temporal coverage is not stated.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:05.213096; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Covers the area administered by Derby City Council.