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UK Geometries

Counties (Local Authority Districts)

Type: MultiPolygon
Source: http://martinjc.github.io/UK-GeoJSON/

GeoJSON
TopoJSON

These files came preprocessed (GeoJSON and TopoJSON)

NOTE:

"counties" in the United Kingdom are not really straightforward. There seem to be a few different ways
to subdivide England, and counties don't cover all of the country. For the purpose of our workshop,
we just want some more detailed administrative boundaries somewhere besides San Francisco. If you are
interested in getting into the finer points, see these links:  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subdivisions_of_England
http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/132105/where-could-i-find-geojson-data-for-all-counties-of-the-uk

Tube lines

Type: MultiLineString
Source: https://github.com/oobrien/vis specifically

GeoJSON
TopoJSON

Download the geojson file from the link and rename to london_tube.geojson. convert the geojson to topojson and preserve only a couple key properties:

geo2topo london_tube.geojson -p id -p lines -o london_tube.topojson

Tube stations

Type: Point
Source: https://github.com/oobrien/vis specifically

GeoJSON
TopoJSON

Download the geojson file from the link and rename to london_tube.geojson.
convert the geojson to topojson and preserve only a couple key properties:

geo2topo london_stations.geojson -p id -p name -p lines -o london_stations.topojson