Northern Ireland Parliamentary Constituency Boundaries at 1:1,000,000 Scale

Northern Ireland is represented by a 1:1,000,000 scale raster map showing its parliamentary constituency boundaries. The dataset is the smallest-scale raster product from the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland (OSNI), providing a broad overview. It is published as open data by the Government Digital Service under the Open Government Licence.

Use Cases

• Create background reference maps for presentations or reports based on the static raster image.
• Visualize the geographic extent of parliamentary constituencies for educational purposes based on the boundary data.
• Integrate as a base layer in GIS projects for regional context based on the 1:1,000,000 scale overview.

Strengths

• Provides a standardized, official overview of Northern Ireland's electoral geography from the national mapping agency.
• Serves as the smallest-scale OSNI raster product, suitable for broad regional context.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland (OSNI)

Collection Method

Published as a static raster map product for open data.

Time Range

The description references boundaries from 2008.

Freshness

unknown

Geography

Northern Ireland