Cancer Alliance Boundaries in England, February 2017

Five vector boundary resolutions for Cancer Alliances in England, including full, clipped, and generalised versions. The data contains both Ordnance Survey and Office for National Statistics intellectual property rights. File sizes range from 71 KB for ultra generalised boundaries to 15 MB for full resolution clipped boundaries.

Use Cases

• Map Cancer Alliance service areas based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Analyze geographic coverage of cancer care networks using the clipped coastline boundaries.
• Perform spatial analysis at different scales using the generalised (20m, 200m, 500m) boundary files.

Strengths

• Provides five distinct boundary resolutions, from full detail (10-15 MB files) to ultra generalised (71 KB file).
• Contains specific intellectual property rights information for Ordnance Survey and ONS.
• Includes direct REST service URLs for ArcGIS INSPIRE View and Feature Download services.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is from a single snapshot in February 2017; temporal coverage is limited.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Digital vector boundaries likely created from administrative health region definitions.

Time Range

February 2017

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:10.136347; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England