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(French) La carte des parcelles avec la délimitation et les informations d'enregistrement de la parcelle. Ces caractéristiques doivent être inclues dans les informations cadastrales soumises.d
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Openly licenced | Yes | |
| In an open and machine-readable format | CSV | |
| Downloadable at once | Yes | |
| Up-to-date | Yes | |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| findable | 4 | |
| findable_steps | No steps. I am a user of the data and have been aware of its location since the original release in 2012. However the dataset is easily found via Google using search terms such as: company data britain | |
| licence_url | https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/free_company_dat | Companies House maintains the data in a public register under statute. CH does not claim any intellectual property rights in the Free Company Data Product and therefore does not apply the Open Government Licence to the data. I have provided a link to correspondence from 2014 in which CH explains its position on re-use of the data. |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 2 | No data are usable without human effort. The data are formatted to be both human and machine-readable. However the dataset is too large to be easily managed in a spreadsheet programme so the user will need some basic knowledge of database software to manipulate the data. |
| collector_name | Companies House | |
| characteristics | Name of company, Company address, Unique identifier of the company, Register available for entire country | |
| location | https://download.companieshouse.gov.uk/en_output.html - Free Company Data Product |
Your submission is valid. Thank you very much for contributing to the Global Open Data Index. All 4 required characteristics were found online: UK's companies' names, addresses and unique identifiers are included in machine-readable .CSV files that are publicly available and can be downloaded for free in bulk (in 5 parts) from the Companies House website. The website is easily found through a Google search for "uk chamber of commerce" which leads to a page directing to Companies House (https://www.britishchambers.org.uk/business/business-faqs/where-can-i-go-to-get-a-list-of-registered-companies-in-the-uk.html). People have complained about corrupted data files and outdated data on the data.gov.uk page (https://data.gov.uk/dataset/basic-company-data) so downloading them directly from the Companies House website (https://download.companieshouse.gov.uk/en_output.html) is preferable. Data were lastly updated on 03/02/2017 (today's date is 07/02/2017). Although machine readable, some human effort is required to manipulate the data as the dataset is too large.