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What is this UK coordinate system?
Any data you receive from the UK with out a specified CRS will almost certainly be in OSGB (EPSG:27700) which is the preferred CRS of our national mapping agency (OS).
Your data appears to be no ...
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UK regional shape map with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
What you really want are Eurostat NUTS Level 1 boundaries, which include UK regions and also the whole of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
You can fetch the latest 2018 data from UK Office for ...
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Looking for DEM data of Brighton UK
geostore 25cm, 50cm, 1m, 2m LiDAR
You will probably need to download a few tile to cover Brighton
http://www.geostore.com/environment-agency/survey.html#/survey?grid=TQ20
OS Terrain - 50m Grid or 10m ...
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Uploading CSV file without coordinates in QGIS
Your data is related to "LSOAs in England and Wales and Data Zones in Scotland." (from the readme) so you need to download some LSOA boundaries (and Data Zones in Scotland). Then you can ...
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Generating random lat/long coordinates
What you want to do is to generate a random set of numbers within the following approximated box:
[Longitude, Latitude]
[-10.8544921875, 49.82380908513249],
[-10.8544921875, 59.478568831926395],
...
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UK Post Code Location References
Ordnance Survey provides some free open data on postcodes called 'Code-Point Open'. It is a csv of the post-code with a lat long attribute. I'd suggest getting hold of this data then extracting just ...
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Purchasing NDVI imagery for South Western England?
I don't think this is the answer you're looking for but with the specifications you describe, unless there is a subscription through which the farmers need to finance imagery purchase, it would ...
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Using UK Government Data in QGIS?
UK Government data in general, and definitely in this case, is stored using the Ordnance Survey's national grid coordinates. So you need to ask QGIS to set the projection of the layers to EPSG:27700. ...
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Seeking vector data for wind speed and operating turbines in UK?
When you import a shapefile (or zipped shapefile) into QGis is just displays the data using a random color. So you need to style it and select a attribute to colour it in by and how you'd like the ...
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Distances between points British National Grid (BNG)
Using NUTS-3 centroids with the Near (Analysis) tool, the geodetic distance between the Shetland Islands and Jersey was calculated to be 1191878.03 meters.
Using a Euclidean distance after projecting ...
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Confusion on Northing and Easting values in UK
If you have coordinates in the UK they are more likely to be in OSGB (EPSG:27700) rather than a UTM zone (since the Greenwich meridian is a join between them).
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Complete list of UK postcodes plus their city, county, uk country
I would recommend the National Statistics Postcode Lookup. It seems to be the official source.
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Ordnance Survey grids - download or generate?
From 29 January 2021, you can download a GeoPackage containing these grids at a number of resolutions (1, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 km) from Ordnance Survey's GitHub: https://github.com/OrdnanceSurvey/OS-...
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Seeking shapefile of 2km DINTY Tetrad squares for UK?
there is a way in QGIS, using the TomBio plugin, to generate tetrad squares for an area of interest. More info and youtube tutorials available here.
To use this...
zoom to an area of interest e.g. ...
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Looking for DEM data of Brighton UK
Just to add to the nice answer from @Clubdebambos, assuming you are studying at a UK-based university, you may also have access to the Edina Digimap as this also contains OS Terrain data where you can ...
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Projection parameters different for British National Grid between QGIS and ArcMap?
For most of the world EPSG:27700 is defined as:
PROJCS["OSGB 1936 / British National Grid",GEOGCS["OSGB 1936",DATUM["OSGB_1936",SPHEROID["Airy 1830",6377563.396,299.3249646,AUTHORITY["EPSG","7001"]],...
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Location of UK Town to Postal Sector database or .csv
Try the Ordnance Survey Code Point Open. It has administrative district code and administrative ward code attributes you can join to ons codes to get the relevant information.
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What are last four columns in Royal Mail CSV PAF data used for?
I contacted Royal Mail about this, the additional fields (in order are):
Address Key
Organisation Key
Number of Households
Locality Key
More information about Address and Organisation Keys can be ...
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Determining CRS for contoured road map of England and Wales
This one worked for me:
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid EPSG:2770
To answer your questions:
"Can you advise me something about finding CRS in general?"
You would start with looking at ...
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Appropriate map projection for the UK and Republic of Ireland?
I'd use ETRS89-extended/LCC Europe (EPSG:3034) which avoids the anoying issue of picking a UTM zone which always lose parts of eastern England to the east of Greenwich.
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Confusion on Northing and Easting values in UK
The coordinates you have are in British National Grid and not UTM. As indicated by Ian.
This can be checked using the Grid Inquest II reprojector:
The British National Grid is curated by the ...
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UK Polygon Property Boundaries and Addresses
You will need to purchase (or work for an organisation that has purchased) Ordnance Survey's MasterMap topographic area data for your area of interest.
You may also be able to buy the same ...
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Understanding LSOA and MSOA boundaries (UK)?
(Caveate: I'm newer to the specifics of National Statistics' Output Area geography than you are.)
From both the BoundaryViewer and output-areas-explained links you provide, I reach the same conclusion ...
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Shapefiles of the UK
You may use the datasets available from DIVA-GIS. If you select your country (United Kingdom), you will access to data (as raster or vector maps) about:
Administrative areas;
Inland waters;
Roads;
...
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Need second-level subdivisions (Counties) for the United Kingdom
Looking at the list you link to you will need several layers from the OS Boundary-line data set -
two-tier county are in county_region
London borough are in district_borough_unitary_region
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Seeking Postcode Shapefiles for UK?
https://datashare.is.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/2597
This website has the recently updated UK Postcode Area, Postcode District and Postcode Sector shapefiles in the 'GB_Postcodes.zip' file.
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NDVI data for UK?
You can also use AppEEARS data portal to search for and download MODIS NDVI products. The big advantage of this service is that you do not have to download complete scenes but set the AOI instead and ...
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Converting Northings/Eastings to Longitude/Latitude using R issue with Northern Ireland?
EPSG:27700 is the Great British Grid and as such doesn't include Northern Ireland. Your coordinates are most likely on the Irish Grid EPSG:29903 which should fix your issue.
It won't help with your ...
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Location of UK Town to Postal Sector database or .csv
Ordnance Survey Open Names (open data) gives you postcode and populated place, where populated place is a city, town, village, or some other place where people live.
For example:
SW1A 1AA -> City of ...
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Discrepancies in reprojection to British National Grid using different software
Try this command from your GDAL shell:
projinfo -s epsg:4326 -t epsg:27700
You will probably see at the end of the output
Grid OSTN15_NTv2_OSGBtoETRS.gsb needed but not found on the system.
Can be ...
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