A compilation of car park, parking bay, and parking zone records from Scottish councils, published as national polygon and point layers. The data includes Traffic Regulation Orders (TROs) buffered to create representative areas. The dataset is provided by the Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot platform.
Use Cases
- Mapping parking facility locations based on polygon and point layers.
- Analyzing parking zone coverage and regulations based on incorporated TRO data.
- Assessing parking infrastructure completeness across local authorities based on compiled national layers.
Strengths
- Provides four distinct geospatial layers: car park polygons, car park points, parking bay polygons, and parking zone polygons.
- Attempts to compile disparate local authority records into consistent national layers.
- Incorporates Traffic Regulation Orders (TROs) by buffering line records by 2m.
Limitations
- Data may not be up to date nor complete, as noted in the description.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
- Collection Method
- Compiled from records kept by Scottish councils.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-16 15:05:17.187221; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Scotland