Data on air quality (e.g. levels of major pollutants) on a granular basis - that is at least broken down by month (preferably by day). Geographic breakdown (e.g. by grid point) would be nice but is not required.

Data Location

https://www.airqualityengland.co.uk/local-authority/data?la_id=51

Comments

Cambridge City Council operate 4 air quality monitors in Cambridge, in addition to the single monitor (Regent's Street) that is part of Defra's national Automatic and Urban Network.

The data are available from a web page operated by the council's contractor.

• There is a map and tables showing the latest levels in near-real-time (about 4-hour lag by my observations) https://www.airqualityengland.co.uk/local-authority/?la_id=51

• Current and historic data can be downloaded in CSV format on this page. There is a selector which allows all or part of the data to be downloaded. https://www.airqualityengland.co.uk/local-authority/data?la_id=51

Local authorities are legally obliged to disseminate information to members of the public, so the question of licensing does not really arise. The data are openly and freely available to anyone. https://www.airqualityengland.co.uk/about.php

There is no API to access the data.

The council's own page describing the monitoring: https://www.cambridge.gov.uk/air-pollution-levels

The national AURN https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/data/data_selector

Data Availability

• Y Openly licensed
• Y Is the data machine readable
• Y Is the data available for free
• Y Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis
• N Available in bulk
• Y Publicly available
• Y Does the data exist
• Y Is the data available online
• Y Is data in digital form

Details

Date the data became available	Unknown
Format of data	csv
Reviewer	anonymous
Submitters	anonymous
Last modified	Wed Jul 22 2015 07:58:36 GMT+0000 (UTC)