OSNI 50K Transport: Roads and Railways of Northern Ireland

OSNI Open Data 50k Transport Points 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 railways for Northern Ireland. The data is provided under the LPS Open Government Data License.

Use Cases

• Map road network density and connectivity based on the described road classes.
• Analyze transportation infrastructure for routing or planning based on the inclusion of roads and railways.
• Create base maps for regional studies using the geospatial vector data of Northern Ireland's transport layer.

Strengths

• Covers all major and minor road classes (motorways, A, B, C) for the entire region of Northern Ireland.
• Provides multiple standard geospatial file formats including ESRI SHAPE, GEOJSON, and KML.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely derived from official survey or mapping agency data.

Time Range

unknown

Freshness

unknown

Geography

Northern Ireland