streets dataset

Streets Dataset

Streets Dataset

A dataset containing the start-points and end-points of streets in 1854 Soho, London data

Format

A data frame with 5 rows and 317 columns:

  • id: Observation-level identifier
  • dist: Length of street section in metres
  • start_point: Street start-point identifier
  • end_point: Street end-point identifier
  • start_coord_east: X-coordinate in Ordnance Survey National Grid (OSGB36) projection of the start-point
  • start_coord_north: Y-coordinate in Ordnance Survey National Grid (OSGB36) projection of the start-point
  • end_coord_east: X-coordinate in Ordnance Survey National Grid (OSGB36) projection of the end-point
  • end_coord_north: Y-coordinate in Ordnance Survey National Grid (OSGB36) projection of the end-point

Source

John Snow's 1854 cholera outbreak map, georeferenced and processed by Niamh Mimnagh. Original map and data can be found in the public domain at: Snow, J. (1855). On the Mode of Communication of Cholera. (Online) Available: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snow-cholera-map-1.jpg

data(streets)
  • Maintainer: Niamh Mimnagh
  • License: GPL-3
  • Last published: 2025-03-15

About the dataset

  • Number of rows: 436
  • Number of columns: 8
  • Class: tbl_df, tbl, data.frame

Column names and types

  • id:numeric
  • dist:numeric
  • start_point:numeric
  • end_point:numeric
  • start_coord_east:character
  • start_coord_north:character
  • end_coord_east:character
  • end_coord_north:character