This is a sub-set of the data we hold from the gb1900 database, it's a bounding box around an area of the Thames specified for the maphackathon.

For the maphackahton we have provided data in github friendly native geojson collections, in CSV with the locations in either EWKT or geojson. 

Here follows the standard readme for our raw data downloads: 

README FILE

GB1900 RAW GAZETTEER DATA DUMP 

Contained within this zip archive should be four files:
1) .csv file - DATASET 06Feb2017 GB1900 Raw Gazetteer Data Dump
2) .txt file - CC0 Licence GB1900 Raw Gazetteer Data Dump
3) .xml file - METADATA 06Feb2017 GB1900 Raw Gazetteer Data Dump
4) .txt file - README 06Feb2017 GB1900 Raw Gazetteer Data Dump



# Licence

Released under a CC0 Licence, see separate text file for details.


# Citation

Please reference this work as the "GB1900 raw gazetteer data dump" made available by the GB1900 Project.

You may call any work you derive from this raw data dump whatever you like EXCEPT that you must not name your work "the GB1900 gazetteer", or any other name including "GB1900" or "Great Britain 1900". When using or citing the work, you should not imply endorsement by the GB1900 project or by any of the project partners.

We welcome acknowledgments to the "GB1900 project" in any supporting documentation. We also welcome offers of collaboration in creating a definitive GB1900 gazetteer: contact us at GB1900@port.ac.uk.


# Providers

This dataset is made available via www.VisionofBritain.org.ok which is operated by Great Britain Historic GIS Project, University of Portsmouth, one of the GB1900 project partners. The other GB1900 project partners are the National Library of Scotland, the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies at the University of Wales, The National Library of Wales and The People's Collection Wales.


# Dataset Notes

This dump file of raw gazetteer data was extracted from the GB1900 gazetteer collected via the website http://www.gb1900.org/
It contains data collected up to midnight on the 6th February 2017.
This file contains Unicode characters.
Please note the dataset is a very large text file, but WordPad can open it.


# Columns

EntryID = unique identifier for a record.
Frequency = Number of attempts at transcription.
GridRef = Latitude, Longitude (WGS84).
DateStamp = Date and time of last update to the record.
Transcription = Text string transcription contained within quotations marks. Multiple transcriptions are in the order made and separated by commas.
Comments = Comments added by the transcriber.
AlternateNames = Any alternate names added by the transcriber
Memories - any memories added by the transcriber. 

N.B. The column names are not given in the dataset.


# Support

FAQs and a detailed tutorial for volunteers are located in the help section of the support website here:  https://support.gb1900.org/portal/helpcenter/gb1900