Northern Ireland data

[alexnorton]

It'd be great if some data for Northern Ireland was added to the repo, maybe starting with WPCs?

[martinjc]

Yeah, I'd love to add NI data. Unfortunately it does not seem to be as clearly open as data from the rest of the UK. Boundary data for NI is available from http://www.gistrategyni.gov.uk/index.htm, and the licence seems to say derived works can be redistributed, but I need to get into it further before I'd feel sure I can transform the data to geojson and republish it

[alexnorton]

Cheers for the reply!

[hijodigital]

Northern Ireland would be great. My need is for the Westminster parliamentary constituencies for Northern Ireland.

Just as an aside, only about 75% of the constituency names in the map matched the data published by the election commision: http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/excel_doc/0003/105726/GE2010-results-flatfile-website.xls. However, it did not take too long to create synergy between map and dataset. Most of the differences are things like: 'South Devon' and 'Devon South'. The EC dataset uses a 'Press Association Reference' to code the constituencies, unfortunetly I don't think this is an avaialble property in the map.

Very useful project. Thank you.

[chris48s]

Northern Ireland vector boundaries are available under an Open Government Licence

http://www.nidirect.gov.uk/osni-open-data

http://osni.spatial-ni.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets?q=Boundaries&sort_by=relevance

[martinjc]

That's great news. I'll add it to the todo list to get NI boundaries added. Unless anyone wants to submit a PR?

[martinjc]

NI boundaries for wards, parliamentary constituencies, local government districts and county boundaries now added. Will update web page now.