Parliamentary Constituencies 2023 Boundaries for Belfast West

A raster image dataset of the official Parliamentary Constituency boundary for Belfast West in 2023. The boundaries were agreed by The Boundary Commission of Northern Ireland and are part of the OSNI Large-scale Parliamentary Constituencies dataset. The data is provided by the Government Digital Service under an OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Create visual maps of Belfast West constituency based on the official boundary.
• Overlay constituency boundaries on other geospatial data for regional analysis.
• Verify the geographic extent of the Belfast West parliamentary constituency.

Strengths

• Boundaries are official and agreed by The Boundary Commission of Northern Ireland.
• Data is provided by a government source (Government Digital Service).
• License is clearly stated as OGL-UK-3.0.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is provided only as a PNG raster file, which may limit analytical uses compared to vector formats.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Official boundaries from The Boundary Commission of Northern Ireland.

Time Range

2023

Geography

Belfast West, Northern Ireland