UK Parliamentary Constituencies and MPs for the York Area via Live GIS Feed

A live-linked geospatial dataset of UK parliamentary constituencies and their Members of Parliament, focusing on the York area. The data is published by the Government Digital Service and sourced from the City of York Council's GIS server, with updates reflected immediately. The license is OGL-UK-3.0.

Use Cases

• Mapping constituency boundaries based on the provided geospatial formats (GEOJSON, KML).
• Monitoring changes in parliamentary representation based on the live API link to the council's GIS server.
• Linking geographic areas to their elected officials based on the dataset's title and description.

Strengths

• Data is linked live to the authoritative source (City of York Council GIS server), ensuring changes are reflected immediately.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats (GEOJSON, KML, CSV) for flexibility.
• Published under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality, column definitions, and row count require manual inspection after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Geographic coverage appears limited to the York area, which may restrict broader UK analyses.

Provenance

Source

City of York Council GIS server, aggregated by Government Digital Service.

Collection Method

Live API link to a government GIS service.

Time Range

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Freshness

Live-linked; updates from the source are reflected immediately, but the specific last update date is unknown.

Geography

York area, United Kingdom.