A live API link to the City of York Council's GIS server provides street nameplate data. The dataset is published by the Government Digital Service under the UK Open Government Licence and is available in GEOJSON and KML formats. Changes to the master data are reflected immediately in this resource.
Use Cases
- Update municipal asset maps based on live GIS data mentioned in the description
- Perform spatial analysis of street networks based on the provided geospatial formats
- Integrate street location data into civic applications using the live API link
Strengths
- Data is linked live to the authoritative source, ensuring changes are reflected immediately
- Available in standard geospatial formats (GEOJSON, KML) for interoperability
- Published under the permissive UK Open Government Licence
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
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to a single UK city council's jurisdiction
Provenance
- Source
- City of York Council GIS server
- Collection Method
- Live API link to municipal geographic information system
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Update frequency is live, but the last updated date for the published resource is unknown.
- Geography
- City of York, UK