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(French) Une carte géographique du pays incluant les routes nationales, les étendue d'eau, indicateurs d'altitudes, la carte doit être fournie au moins avec une précision à l’échelle 1:250,000(1cm=2.5km)
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Openly licenced | Yes | |
| In an open and machine-readable format | CSV | |
| Downloadable at once | Yes | Data from monitoring stations is available via an interface that allows the user to select individual or groups of stations, pollutants, date ranges, etc. but the user would need to submit numerous searches in order to download all the data. Reviewer: User is able to select all the regions in the UK country and all of the pollutants with a multi-select. Not very user friendly, but a feature that allows bulk data download. But we may discuss this, as the 256 column limit is one that disallows for bulk data download. |
| 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 was previously aware of Defra's UK-AIR site. However the data is readily discoverable via Google searches for "air pollution data" or "air quality data". | |
| licence_url | https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/data/ | The data is re-usable under the Open Government Licence. |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| usability | 3 | The data is readily usable in format but given the subject matter there is an amount of underpinning knowledge necessary to understand and interpret it. |
| collector_name | Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) | |
| characteristics | Particulate matter (PM), Sulphur oxides (SOx), Nitrogen oxides (NOx), Carbon monoxide (CO), Ozone, Volatile organic compounds (VOCs), Available per air monitoring station/zone | |
| location | https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/data/ - UK-AIR Data Archive | This facility provides downloadable data from 1500 sites across the UK that monitor air quality. |
Accepted with one correction: Data may be downloaded in bulk by multi-selecting data on the link provided. Not a very user friendly way for bulk data, but the feature is present whatsoever. But we may discuss this, as the 256 column limit is one that disallows for bulk data download.