Location
Land Use
Typology & Size
Construction & Design
Age & History
Planning & Conservation
Retrofit & Condition
Energy Performance & Systems
Green/Water Infrastructure Context
Urban Infrastructure Context
Disaster Management
Community
Welcome to Colouring Britain!
Colouring Britain is a research-led, free public resource, providing open spatial data on Britain's buildings. It is also an open knowledge initiative, built collectively by, and for, academia, communities, government, industry and the third sector. Any information you can add to our open platform is greatly appreciated.
Colouring Britain forms part of the Colouring Cities Research Programme (CCRP), managed in Britain by The Alan Turing Institute. The CCRP allows international academic institutions to co-work on a global network of interoperable open data platforms on national building stocks, and to accelerate sharing of resources and expertise. The CCRP's overall aim is to help improve the quality, efficiency, resilience and sustainability of buildings, and urban areas, and to accelerate the move to net zero in line with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
New data and features are added all the time. We are keen to engage as many people as possible in platform development. Whether you are a resident, or a stakeholder in academia, government, industry or the third sector, any help you can give colouring in our Colouring Cities maps, and enriching and verifying our open databases with your knowledge, is greatly appreciated.
All data collected (e.g data-extracts) and code are free to download, use and share under open licence terms. Our open manual provides non-technical information for anyone interested in our research, as well as a Technical Manual, which describes how to use and contribute to the platform. We also have an impact studies showcase, which shows how the data from the platform can be used.
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