OSNI 50K Transport Lines: Roads and Railways of Northern Ireland
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Description
OSNI Open Data 50k Transport Lines is a vector dataset from the Government Digital Service. It contains all motorways, A, B, C class, and minor roads, as well as railways and road names for Northern Ireland. The dataset is available in multiple geospatial formats including KML, ESRI Shapefile, and GeoJSON.
Use Cases
Mapping road networks based on the described road classifications (motorway, A, B, C, minor).
Conducting spatial analysis of transportation infrastructure in Northern Ireland.
Developing routing or navigation applications using the detailed road and railway data.
Integrating transport layers into broader geospatial analyses of the region.
Strengths
Covers the entire road network of Northern Ireland, including all classifications.
Available in multiple standard geospatial formats (KML, ESRI Shapefile, GeoJSON, CSV, JSON).
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
Source
Government Digital Service
Collection Method
Likely compiled from official government surveys and records.
Time Range
null
Freshness
unknown
Geography
Northern Ireland
Use requires agreement to the LPS Open Government Data License.