Ultra generalised (500m) digital vector boundaries for the Department for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills in Wales, clipped to the coastline. The boundaries contain both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights and were last updated on the platform in July 2025. This dataset is provided by the Government Digital Service.
Use Cases
- Map education service delivery areas based on the ultra generalised (500m) boundaries.
- Analyze coastal proximity of administrative units based on the clipping to the Mean High Water mark.
- Integrate boundaries with other Welsh datasets based on the Ordnance Survey and ONS intellectual property.
- Visualize the geographic structure of the DCELLS department based on the vector boundaries.
- Perform spatial joins for demographic analysis based on the December 2016 snapshot.
Strengths
- Boundaries are ultra generalised (500m), which suggests a simplified geometry suitable for small-scale analysis.
- Boundaries are clipped to the coastline (Mean High Water mark), providing a precise coastal definition.
- Contains intellectual property rights from Ordnance Survey and ONS, indicating authoritative source data.
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.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Government Digital Service
- Time Range
- December 2016
- Freshness
- Last updated 2025-07-04 13:30:50.446000; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Wales