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by robgolding 4417 days ago
I'm the tech lead on the team that runs http://police.uk, the UK Police crime mapping website, and our data is available to download and through an API at http://data.police.uk. The dataset isn't nearly as big as some of the ones in this list (~40MM rows), but it's nice that the Home Office are open with their data.

People have built some cool apps with it which are showcased[1] on the site, there's even a Pebble watch app[2] which is due to be added to that list shortly.

We also have an open-source Python client[3] for the API, which I'm planning to post here once the documentation is finished.

[1]: http://www.police.uk/apps/

[2]: https://git.bengcooper.co.uk/bengcooper/pebble-crimewatch/wi...

[3]: https://github.com/rkhleics/police-api-client-python/