This data set was produced by Jeremy Kidwell as a part of a research project “Finding Common Ground” that was jointly funded by the AHRC/ESRC (Grant Ref: AH/P005063/1) and based jointly at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Birmingham. The data is available for academic use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. For full details, see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.

The set was produced in collaboration with Roz Corbett (Scotland Development Manager, Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens Gorgie City Farm 51, Gorgie Road, Edinburgh EH11 2LA) and is based on all projects registered with the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens which have given permission for the details of their project to be made public as of 7 September 2016. Site locations were resolved to coordinates using a street address and postcode using the OpenCage Geocoder API (https://geocoder.opencagedata.com/api) and checked against coordinate data provided by the Google Maps API.

Data in this set includes six fields:
- 1 (ID) provides a unique six digit identifier for each site
- 2-3 provide X and Y coordinates. These are set to the WGS84 (EPSG:4326) and have been rounded to three decimal places to avoid false precision
- 4 specifies the name of the Project 
- 5 specifies a URL which points to a website for the project, if one is available

One final note: This data set has been simplified for ease of use. If other researchers are interested in a wider or more precise set of data please get in touch via email. This is the first release in a range of planned geospatial data sets of British community groups which will include permaculture, transition, development trusts, and places of worship. For more information on this data, please email j.kidwell@bham.ac.uk, visit our website at http://mapping.community/ or join the mapping community mailing list (https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MAPPING-COMMUNITY).

Revision History:

1.0	This is the first publicly available instance of this data set.