National Assembly for Wales Constituency Boundaries as of December 2016

Digital vector boundaries for the National Assembly for Wales constituencies, representing the full extent of the realm as of December 31, 2016. The dataset contains intellectual property from both Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics. It was last updated on the platform in September 2022.

Use Cases

• Mapping electoral constituencies based on the provided vector boundaries.
• Analyzing spatial relationships between Welsh constituencies and other geographic features based on the full-extent boundaries.
• Integrating administrative boundaries into GIS systems for regional planning based on the official 2016 delineation.

Strengths

• Boundaries are provided at full resolution, including the full extent of the realm.
• Contains intellectual property from authoritative sources: Ordnance Survey and the Office for National Statistics.
• Multiple download formats are available, including GeoPackage, GeoJSON, and ESRI File Geodatabase.

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.
• Last updated 2022-09-29 17:55:58.221000; freshness should be verified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely an official boundary delineation and digitization process.

Time Range

As of 31 December 2016

Freshness

2022-09-29 17:55:58.221000

Geography

Wales