Bristol City Council Web Map Service for Local Government Data

A Web Map Service (WMS) providing access to datasets held by Bristol City Council. The service replicates individual datasets listed under data.gov.uk and includes some Ordnance Survey data released under presumption to publish. The organization responsible is the Government Digital Service.

Use Cases

• Visualizing local administrative boundaries based on the WMS map layers.
• Integrating council-held spatial data into planning applications based on the service's replication of data.gov.uk datasets.
• Creating composite maps that include Ordnance Survey base data based on the included OS data.

Strengths

• Provides direct access to official Bristol City Council datasets.
• Includes authoritative Ordnance Survey data with a required copyright acknowledgement.
• Replicates data from the centralized UK government data portal, data.gov.uk.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Bristol City Council and Ordnance Survey (via data.gov.uk)

Collection Method

Web Map Service (WMS) replication of published datasets.

Time Range

unknown

Freshness

unknown

Geography

Bristol, United Kingdom