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Shapefiles of 20th Century British Railways

I'm looking for shapefiles of the British railway network from any time between 1900 and 1970 (before many of the railways were closed). There are many historical GIS sites (such as GBHGIS and Vision of Britain) but none of them seem to have any…
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Public source for financial company customer counts?

I've built a dashboard that uses complaints data from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to show the companies with the most complaints. The results are kind of interesting, but also rather predictable: the biggest companies have the most…
Jeremiah Orr
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Julian and Gregorian dates from Wikidata

How can I get the Julian birth or death date for someone who was born or died under the Julian Calendar (Isaac Newton, for example) on Wikidata using a SPARQL query? This simple query returns "4 January 1643," which is Newton's Gregorian birth…
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Audio data set of (telephone) conversations and their transcriptions

I need records of telephone conversations (or simple conversations between two persons) with their transcripts. I need English and French datasets.
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Data licensing question

So here's the situation: I built a database (text file) that consists of a few sets of data (for example, but not really), "car name", "car parts", etc. The "car name" data and others are under no copyright, but for "car parts", I used two others…
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Seeking globally available road data for medium-scaled maps (1:200.000)

I am seeking open data of roads for medium scaled maps (1:200.000, 1:500.000 up to 1:1.000.000). For the whole world, at least Indonesia and Africa. I know I could use OSM streets and somehow generalize them. But for my purposes this would be too…
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Suspected dirty data in Wikipedia articles indirectly belonging to a category

I'm trying to get a list of all articles (just the names, not the contents) that are indirectly within the category Japanese people in Wikipedia. I've tried using a tool called Quick intersection. The results aren't too bad, but I'm getting some…
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Birthday and Marriage Information

I'm interested in marriage/divorce information by birth date. Does anyone know the best place to get something like that?
Hans
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Wikidata differs from Wikipedia

I am trying to retrieve data for a company programmatically using the Wikidata API. However, the data retrieved from Wikidata is different from en.wikipedia.org. Is this expected? Example: Nissan Motors - WikiData and Wikipedia. Revenue in…
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Sidewalk accessibility mapping in California

I'm looking for a data-driven way to virtually assess accessibility of sidewalks in California, particularly in the Bay Area. Basically, any tools that would help with estimating a 'walkscore' type of rating for sidewalks would be ideal. FYI - There…
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Where to get school district boundaries?

Census.gov usually makes available the shapefiles containing school district boundaries. Due to the US government shutdown, census.gov is down. Does anyone know where to download a recently archived copy?
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Is there a tool to convert geoRSS into geoJSON?

I have a geoRSS file that I would like to convert to geoJSON to use it with Leaflet. I found MyGeodata Converter (mentioned on What are the most useful formats in which to release geospatial data?), but it doesn't allow to use geoRSS as an input…
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Determining if drug is generic or brand using NDC

Is there a way to determine if a drug is generic or brand by passing in an NDC (National Drug Code) to the drug label endpoint (https://api.fda.gov/drug/label)?
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Where can I find normalized data on governmental spending on science?

Is possible to get access to data on governmental spending on science in a such format that countries can be compared with each other?
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Google Map based on emergency location information

I would like to build a google map where I can see the locations of currently happening emergencies like earthquake, storms, wildfire, etc. Does anybody know sources from where I can get data like that? Especially for Europe. Similar services from…
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