Web frontend for http://landexplorer.uk - Helping surface open data about land in the UK.

Getting started

With node > 6.0 and npm > 3.0 installed:

• Clone this repo.
• Create a mapbox account and grab an api access key.
• Copy src/config.tpl.json to src/config.json and add your api key.
• npm install
• npm run watch

That'll serve up the site at http://localhost:3000 in dev mode with hot-reloading goodness.

The site is built from code in the src directory and output as a static website to dist.

Related projects

• landexplorer-api - Graphql api for the data
• landexplorer-infrastructure - Ansible deploy playbook for getting live.

Open Data

Shared assets has identified groups of data sets and sources that deserve a wider audience

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TuywMaFP1TjF0RgccEaDeUJDWTUUZfyk8oDHgZpKm1E/edit#gid=0

Simple datasets are imported as vector tile layers to mapbox.

Base map info comes from Mapbox Streets v7 & Mapbox terrain

• https://www.mapbox.com/vector-tiles/mapbox-streets-v7/#layer-reference
• https://www.mapbox.com/vector-tiles/mapbox-terrain/#layer-reference

See also:

• Open data catalogue http://environment.data.gov.uk/ds/catalogue/#/catalogue
• Dealing with INSPIRE land reg polygons: http://anna.ps/blog/how-to-use-land-registry-data-to-explore-land-ownership-near-you
• Defra magicmap: http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx

Landexplorer API

Datasets that are too large or require complex queries are imported to Postgres DB with PostGIS and exposed via a graphql api at http://api.landexplorer.uk/graphiql

The API spec is an alpha release and will change. It currently provides an INSPIRE ID for a give point in the UK.

Credits

Land Explorer is a Shared Assets project.

Built by Outlandish and TABLEFLIP.