Field Names Data Snapshots

Published Categorised as Methodology

We’ve automated a weekly snapshot of the data, in a format called geojson and rendered on the front page of this site (and also below).

Anyone can download a weekly snapshot directly.

The format for the url is:

https://ourlocality.org/nls-fieldnames/fieldnames_2025-12-07.geojson

note: the date should be a Sunday, unlike 
the example above

The latest snapshot can downloaded always from:

https://ourlocality.org/nls-fieldnames/latest.geojson

Our routine now has:

  • a deterministic data refresh (following the Sunday backup of the NLS hosted data set)
  • deterministic legend ordering – sorted by Farm Name
  • zero manual UI intervention
  • an auditable pipeline

By fieldnames

A project to explore the names and etymology of fields in East Lothian, created by the East Lothian Antiquarian and Field Naturalists Society