Street Lighting Incident Reports for York from March 2019 Onwards

All street lighting incidents recorded in the City of York Council's customer relationship management tool from March 2019 onward. The data is sourced from a live API link to the council's GIS server, ensuring updates to the master copy are reflected immediately. The dataset excludes incidents created in the last 14 days and incidents with no end date are currently unresolved.

Use Cases

• Analyze incident resolution times based on the presence or absence of end dates.
• Map the spatial distribution of street lighting faults for maintenance prioritization.
• Monitor trends in reported incidents over time to assess infrastructure aging or seasonal patterns.
• Integrate incident data with other urban datasets for holistic city management.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from a live API, ensuring it reflects the current state of the master database.
• Provides a complete record of incidents from a defined start date (March 2019).
• Available in multiple geospatial and tabular formats (GEOJSON, KML, ESRI SHAPE, CSV).

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Incidents reported via the council's public reporting system and logged in the CRM.

Time Range

March 2019 onwards.

Freshness

Live API link; updates are reflected immediately from the master source.

Geography

York, United Kingdom.