European Electoral Region Boundaries for Great Britain

Great Britain's digital vector boundaries for European Electoral Regions (EER) are provided as of December 2016. The dataset includes multiple boundary versions, such as full-resolution extents and coastline-clipped files at various levels of generalization. It contains intellectual property rights from both the Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics.

Use Cases

• Mapping electoral constituencies based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Analyzing regional representation for the European Parliament using the official administrative divisions.
• Creating simplified base maps for public information using the generalised (20m, 200m, 500m) boundary versions.
• Conducting coastline-based spatial analysis using the clipped-to-coastline boundary files.

Strengths

• Provides five distinct boundary versions, including full resolution (26-31 MB files) and multiple generalized options (down to 197 KB files) for different use cases.
• Contains direct intellectual property attribution to authoritative sources: Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics.
• Offers machine-readable access via REST URLs for an ArcGIS INSPIRE Feature Download Service.

Limitations

• Metadata is incomplete: specific column names, row counts, and detailed attribute schema are not provided in the source descriptions.
• There is a conflict in the temporal reference across platform entries, with one source citing boundaries 'as at December 2015' and others citing '31 December 2016'.
• The dataset's usefulness for current analysis may be limited as it reflects pre-Brexit European electoral regions.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics (UK), incorporating Ordnance Survey data.

Collection Method

Likely digitized and maintained as official administrative boundaries.

Time Range

2015-2016

Freshness

2026-07-08 13:33:28.597442

Geography

Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales)