Scottish Parliamentary Regions: Ultra Generalised Boundaries as of December 2022

Digital vector boundaries for Scottish Parliamentary Regions, as at December 2022. The boundaries are ultra generalised (500m) and clipped to the coastline (Mean High Water mark). The dataset contains both Ordnance Survey and ONS Intellectual Property Rights and was last updated on the platform in April 2023.

Use Cases

• Electoral district mapping based on the provided ultra generalised boundaries.
• Spatial joins for demographic data based on the Scottish Parliamentary Region geography.
• Creating visualizations of political constituencies based on the December 2022 boundary snapshot.
• Coastal boundary analysis based on the clipping to the Mean High Water mark.

Strengths

• Boundaries are temporally specific, reflecting the legal state as of December 2022.
• Data is ultra generalised (500m), which can simplify analysis and visualization tasks.
• Contains authoritative intellectual property from Ordnance Survey and the ONS.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely derived from official cartographic sources.

Time Range

December 2022

Freshness

Last updated 2023-04 25 12:00:56.228000; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Scotland