[Talk-GB] help on downloading from data.gov data

[Jez Nicholson]

Ironic that the Government departments think they are making data easily
accessible by publishing WMS/WFS feeds.

QGIS is quite helpful for exploring them quickly and easily.

On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 6:25 AM Kai Michael Poppe - OSM <osm at poppe.dev>
wrote:

> Hello Graham,
>
> Using this guide [1], I got you an URI that'll give you a GeoJSON file for
> your downloading and working pleasure:
>
>
> http://inspire.misoportal.com/geoserver/london_borough_of_hounslow_protectedsite/wfs?service=wfs&version=2.0.0&request=GetFeature&typeName=london_borough_of_hounslow_protectedsite:london_borough_of_hounslow_protectedsite&outputFormat=json
>
> It contains 2,594 Features (Points, aka Locations of Protected Trees) with
> a bucketload of properties, most of them null so I'm unsure as to what to
> do with them.
>
> The file has 9.15 MB.
>
> HTH.
>
> Regards
>
> Kai
>
> [1] http://www.rowmaps.com/blog/2016-09-11-getting-data-from-a-wfs-server/
>
>
> On 28.09.2021 00:26, Graham Seaman wrote:
> > I want to download the data on tree preservation orders for the borough
> > of Hounslow. Its supposed to be available at:
> >
> >
> https://data.gov.uk/dataset/1bd8b559-3a72-4734-9e5f-8fc2639de8bf/tree-preservation-orders
> >
> > But what I get from the 'Inspire download service' link is an xml file
> > with (I think) a very opaque description of the syntax for interaction
> > with a server. I'm not used to GIS software or SOAP type stuff - can
> > anyone who is tell me if the interface is working the way it is supposed
> > to, and if so if I need an Inspire-specific client, or can use something
> > more generic to get to the data?
> >
> > I'm hoping to match the data up with the GLA tree location data for
> > Hounslow, which is a much more straightforward download (I'm not
> > planning on importing any of this, just looking atm.)
> >
> > Thanks for any advice!
> >
> > Graham
> >
> >
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