Identification

Title

Ceremonial County boundaries of England

Abstract

Polygon dataset showing each current English County as definied by the Lord Lieutenancies Act 1997. Boundaries are mostly based on OS Boundaryline. This data is released under Ordnance Survey Open Data Licence http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/licensing/using-creating-data-with-os-products/os-opendata.html

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://maps.communities.gov.uk/geoserver/dclg_inspire/wms?service=WMS&request=getCapabilities

name: DCLG INSPIRE OGC WMS Service

function: information

http://maps.communities.gov.uk/geoserver/dclg_inspire/ows?service=WFS&version=2.0.0&request=GetFeature&typeName=dclg_inspire:English%20Ceremonial%20Counties&outputFormat=shape-zip&srsName=EPSG:4326

name: Geoserver shapefile download service

function: download

http://maps.communities.gov.uk/geoserver/dclg_inspire/ows?service=WFS&version=2.0.0&request=GetFeature&type

name: DCLG INSPIRE OGC WFS Service

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

DCLG:0004

codeSpace

unknown

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

boundaries

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

administration

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

Administrative units

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Boundaries

County

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-5.71709

East bounding longitude

1.76896

North bounding latitude

55.8117

South bounding latitude

49.9554

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2014-04-01

date type

revision

effective date

2016-01-19

Frequency of update

asNeeded

Quality and validity

Lineage

The data shows polygons that have been created by aggregating polygons from OS Boundaryline products.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

ArcGIS *.shp

version of format

10.1

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Ordnance Survey Open Data Licence

Constraint set

Use constraints

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Strategic Geographer

organisation name

Dept for Communities and Local Govt

full postal address

Fry Building, 2 Marsham Street

London

SW1P 4DF

UK

telephone number

03034440000

email address

gis@communities.gsi.gov.uk

responsible party role

publisher

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

Strategic Geographer

organisation name

Dept for Communities and Local Govt

full postal address

Fry Building, 2 Marsham Street

London

SW1P 4DF

UK

telephone number

03034441534

email address

gis@communities.gsi.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2016-01-19T12:17:18

Metadata language