Identification

Title

Boundary-Lineâ„¢

Abstract

Boundary-Line is a specialist 1:10 000 scale boundaries dataset. It contains all levels of electoral and administrative boundaries, from district, wards and civil parishes (or communities) up to parliamentary, assembly and European constituencies. The information is represented as vector digital data. The boundary information is updated twice a year, in May and October. The May release contains the boundaries that have become live in the first week of May, in the year of release. The October release contains the May boundaries plus additional information. Boundary-Line files and sub-levels includes: County - The named county, district, district ward, civil parish, county electoral division (ED); European constituencies - The named European region; Greater London Authority - The Greater London Authority, Greater London Authority Assembly constituency, London borough, London borough ward; Metropolitan districts - The named metropolitan district, metropolitan district ward, civil parish where appropriate; Scottish parliamentary electoral region - The named Scottish Parliamentary electoral region, Scottish parliamentary constituency; Unitary authorities- The named unitary authority, unitary authority ward or unitary authority ED as appropriate, civil parish where appropriate, together with community in Wales; Welsh Assembly Electoral Region - The named Welsh Assembly electoral region, Welsh assembly constituency; Westminster constituencies - The named Westminster constituency; Extent of the realm - Low water mark or seaward boundary extension. Other attribution includes: High water mark; Unique identifiers - For administrative areas, polygons and links; Area measurements; Definitive names; Census codes

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/boundary-line.html

function: information

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/web-services/os-ondemand/index.html

function: information

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html

function: order

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/xml/atom/BoundaryLine.xml

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

Boundary-Lineâ„¢

codeSpace

ordnancesurvey.co.uk

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

boundaries

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Geographical names

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Legal government boundaries

Mapping

Mid-Scales

Electorial Boundaries

administrative boundaries

GSS codes

Ordnance Survey

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.45

East bounding longitude

1.78

North bounding latitude

60.86

South bounding latitude

49.86

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

1996-04-01

Frequency of update

biannually

Quality and validity

Lineage

Captured and maintained solely from legal boundary changes

Conformity

Data format

name of format

ESRIÂ® Spatial data format (Shapefile)

version of format

1.0

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

No limitations

Constraint set

Use constraints

Use limitation dependent upon licence

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Customer Services

organisation name

Ordnance Survey, Great Britain

full postal address

Explorer House, Adanac Drive

Southampton

SO16 0AS

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44 (0)3456 050505

email address

customerservices@os.uk

web address

http://www.os.uk/

responsible party role

publisher

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact