OSNI Open Data: 50k Administrative Boundaries for Northern Ireland LGDs, 1993

Northern Ireland's Local Government Districts (LGDs) from 1993, provided as 50k scale administrative boundaries by OpenDataNI. The dataset is published under the Open Government Data Licence and was last updated on 2026-07 08. It includes multiple geospatial file formats for download and use.

Use Cases

• Historical boundary analysis based on the 1993 Local Government Districts.
• Geospatial mapping and visualization based on the provided KML and GeoJSON formats.
• Integrating administrative regions into larger analyses based on the open data nature and license.

Strengths

• Provides data at a 50k scale for detailed boundary representation.
• Offers multiple interoperable formats including CSV, KML, JSON, and GeoJSON.
• Published under a clear open license (OGL-UK-3.0).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the 1993 snapshot.

Provenance

Source

OpenDataNI (OSNI)

Collection Method

Published for OpenData, likely derived from official administrative records.

Time Range

1993

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:15.922612; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Northern Ireland