Street Lighting Assets in York, UK

A live GIS feed of street lighting assets maintained by the City of York Council. The dataset includes categories such as street lamps, Belisha beacons, flood lights, and vehicle-activated signs. It is published by the Government Digital Service under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Map asset locations for maintenance planning based on the listed categories like street lamps and subway units.
• Analyze the distribution of different lighting types across the city based on categories such as lit bollards and tunnel units.
• Integrate with other urban datasets for infrastructure studies based on the geospatial nature of the data.

Strengths

• Data is a live API link, ensuring updates to the master copy are reflected immediately.
• Covers multiple specific asset categories, including 10 distinct types like school crossing flashers and lit traffic signs.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

City of York Council GIS server.

Collection Method

Live API link to a municipal GIS system.

Time Range

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Freshness

Live feed, but last update date is unknown.

Geography

York, UK