Sign Problems in York, All Incidents from January 2021

January 2021 onwards, this dataset contains all reported sign incidents in York, recorded in the City of York Council's customer relationship management tool. The data is provided by the Government Digital Service and is a live API link to the council's GIS server, reflecting changes to the master copy. It excludes incidents created in the last 14 days, and incidents with no end date are unresolved.

Use Cases

• Track resolution times for sign problems based on incident start and end dates.
• Map incident density for maintenance prioritization based on geospatial coordinates.
• Analyze reporting trends over time based on the incident recording date.

Strengths

• Live data link ensures changes to the master copy are immediately reflected.
• Clear temporal coverage starting from January 2021.
• Explicit definition of unresolved incidents (those with no end date).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to a single UK council area.

Provenance

Source

City of York Council's customer relationship management (CRM) tool.

Collection Method

Recorded incidents from public reports.

Time Range

January 2021 onwards.

Freshness

Live API link; last update date is unknown.

Geography

York, UK.