OSNI 1:50,000 Transport Layer: Roads and Railways for Northern Ireland

OSNI Open Data 50k Transport Text is a vector dataset from the Government Digital Service. It contains information on all motorways, A, B, C class and minor roads, as well as road names and railways for Northern Ireland. The dataset is available under the Open Government Licence.

Use Cases

• Mapping road networks based on the described road classes and names.
• Conducting spatial analysis of transportation infrastructure based on the vector geometry.
• Integrating road data into webmaps or desktop GIS applications based on the available formats.

Strengths

• Covers all road classes in Northern Ireland, as stated in the description.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats, including ESRI SHAPE, GEOJSON, and KML.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely derived from official survey or mapping data.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated: unknown

Geography

Northern Ireland