Informal Green Spaces in York, UK from City Council GIS

Informal Spaces in York provides a live GIS feed of parks, gardens, and green spaces managed by the City of York Council. The dataset is published by the Government Digital Service under the OGL-UK-3.0 license and is available in multiple geospatial formats. Changes to the master data are reflected immediately in the dataset resources.

Use Cases

• Map and analyze the distribution of public green spaces based on the described location data.
• Integrate park and garden boundaries into urban planning models based on the live GIS link.
• Perform spatial joins with other datasets using the described geospatial geometry.

Strengths

• Data is provided as a live API link, ensuring updates to the master copy are reflected immediately.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats (GEOJSON, KML, CSV) for flexibility.
• Published under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and specific data scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The last update date for the data is unknown; freshness is unverified.

Provenance

Source

City of York Council GIS server, aggregated via the eu_open_data platform.

Collection Method

Live API link to the council's master geospatial data.

Time Range

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Freshness

Live data feed; update frequency is not specified.

Geography

York, United Kingdom