Better Open Data

The same open data - usually from Open Data NI - in a cloud-native format.

About

This project began as I wanted to have easy access to data that I find useful in a modern cloud native format.

Most of the data covers Northern Ireland, is sourced from Open Data NI, and is predominently LiDAR or bathymetry data.

The data is provided as Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF; this format is a relatively new OGC standard adopted in October 2023.

If you want to know why you should store and serve your raster data in Cloud Optimized GeoTIFF format then the https://cogeo.org will provide you with all the information you need.

The python code to convert the data can be found on github.

This site is provided as-is. It may not have 100% uptime; I might break things while trying to improve the map viewers or the data. If you have any suggestions please get in touch.