AsciiMAster/uke-mobile-network-permits-poland

UKE Mobile Network Permits - Poland

Radio permits issued by the Polish Office of Electronic Communications (Urząd Komunikacji Elektronicznej, UKE) for cellular base stations across all bands: GSM 900/1800, GSM-R, UMTS 900/2100, LTE 420/450/700/800/900/1800/2100/2600, 5G 700/900/1800/2100/2600/3600, and CDMA 420.

The dataset is a single GeoParquet file in WGS84 (EPSG:4326) containing one row per permit per station per band.

• Source: https://bip.uke.gov.pl/pozwolenia-radiowe/wykaz-pozwolen-radiowych-tresci/stacje-gsm-umts-lte-5gnr-oraz-cdma,12,0.html
• License: UKE public-information reuse terms. See Licensing.
• Refresh cadence: UKE updates the underlying spreadsheets every few months. This repository is re-published from the latest snapshot; each refresh is a new commit. Use revision= to pin a specific snapshot, or filter on the snapshot_date column.

Schema

Column	Type	Description
band	string	Radio band (e.g. 5G3600, LTE800, UMTS2100).
operator	string	Permit holder (e.g. Orange Polska S.A.).
decision_number	string	UKE decision identifier.
decision_type	string	Decision type code (zmP, P, etc.).
valid_until	timestamp[ns]	Permit expiry date.
city	string	Town/city of the station.
address	string	Street address of the station.
station_id	string	UKE station identifier.
teryt	string	Polish TERYT territorial code (commune).
longitude	float64	Longitude in decimal degrees, WGS84.
latitude	float64	Latitude in decimal degrees, WGS84.
snapshot_date	date32	Date the upstream xlsx was published (stan na ...).
geometry	geometry(Point)	WGS84 point with the same coordinates as lon/lat.

The original Excel files use sexagesimal DMS notation (e.g. 20E47'02", 52N04'06"); this dataset converts those to decimal-degrees WGS84.

Quick start

import geopandas as gpd
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download

path = hf_hub_download(
    repo_id="<USER>/uke-mobile-network-permits-poland",
    filename="uke_permits.parquet",
    repo_type="dataset",
)
gdf = gpd.read_parquet(path)
print(gdf.crs, len(gdf))
gdf[gdf.band == "5G3600"].plot(markersize=0.5)

Or with pandas / pyarrow if you do not need the geometry column:

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_parquet(path, columns=[
    "band", "operator", "city", "longitude", "latitude", "snapshot_date",
])

Refreshing

The dataset is rebuilt from the latest UKE BIP attachments using build_geoparquet.py:

pip install openpyxl pandas geopandas pyarrow shapely
python build_geoparquet.py --fetch   # downloads fresh xlsx + rebuilds

Storage on the Hub uses Xet content-defined chunking, so when only a few thousand permits change between snapshots the new revision shares almost all chunks with the previous one and only the diff is uploaded/stored. To make this effective the build sorts rows deterministically by (band, station_id, decision_number) and uses small row groups.

Coverage

• Rows: ~195 k permits.
• Bounding box: lon 14.13 to 24.14 deg E, lat 49.07 to 55.48 deg N (Poland).
• Bands: 20 distinct frequency bands across GSM, GSM-R, UMTS, LTE, 5G NR, CDMA.

Each row is an active permit on the snapshot date; a single physical site typically appears multiple times, once per (operator x band x decision).

Licensing

The source data is published by UKE under the Polish public-sector information reuse regime. UKE's reuse terms (https://bip.uke.gov.pl/informacja-publiczna/ponowne-wykorzystanie-informacji/) require:

• attribution of the source, time of creation, and that the data was acquired from UKE;
• notification of any modifications made to the information;
• acknowledgement that UKE assumes no responsibility for further reuse.

Accordingly, when redistributing or building on this dataset please cite:

Wykaz pozwoleń radiowych, stacje GSM/UMTS/LTE/5G NR oraz CDMA, Urząd Komunikacji Elektronicznej (UKE), snapshot of <snapshot_date>, retrieved from https://bip.uke.gov.pl/pozwolenia-radiowe/wykaz-pozwolen-radiowych-tresci/stacje-gsm-umts-lte-5gnr-oraz-cdma,12,0.html. Coordinates converted from DMS to WGS84 decimal degrees and reformatted as GeoParquet by this repository.

This repository's license tag is other because UKE has not published the data under a standard SPDX license; the conditions above govern reuse.

Disclaimer

This is an unofficial redistribution. Always verify against the upstream UKE source for legally authoritative information.