Northern Ireland Ward Boundaries from 1993

Northern Ireland's mid-scale vector polygon dataset shows administrative Ward boundaries from the year 1993. It is published by OpenDataNI for OpenData and is available in multiple geospatial formats. The dataset's license is OGL-UK-3.0, and its record was last updated on 2026-07-08.

Use Cases

• Map historical administrative units based on the 1993 Ward boundaries.
• Conduct spatial analysis of demographic or electoral data using the polygon boundaries.
• Integrate historical boundary data into geographic information systems for regional studies.

Strengths

• Provides a specific historical snapshot of administrative boundaries from 1993.
• Available in multiple standard geospatial formats including GEOJSON, KML, and WMS.

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

OpenDataNI

Time Range

1993

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:30:35.337781; freshness should be verified

Geography

Northern Ireland