Metadata about a subset of the geographical boundaries from ONS' geoportal that can be downloaded by
{ukgeographies}.
These boundaries have been retrieved from the services provided by
ONS' geoportal API and
automatically categorised from their URLS, to
match Geoportal's menus and datasets.
Format
A data frame with 524 rows and 8 columns:
- id
A unique identifier for every boundary
- service
URL pointing to the API service
- boundary_type
Type of boundary, according to ONS' classification: Administrative
- boundary
Boundary name, according to ONS' naming: Combined Authorities, Counties, Counties and Unitary Authorities, Countries, County Electoral Division, Local Authority Districts, Local Planning Authorities, Lower Layer Output Areas, Metropolitan Counties, Middle Layer Output Areas, Output Areas, Parishes, Parishes and Non Civil Parished Areas, Regions, Upper Tier, Wards
- boundary_short
Boundary (short) name, according to ONS' naming: CAUTH, CED, CTRY, CTY, CTYUA, LAD, LPA, LSOA, MCTY, MSOA, OA, PAR, PARNCP, RGN, UTLA, WD
- detail_level
Boundary's level of detail: BFC, BFE, BGC, BUC. For a detailed description of the methodology refer to Digital boundaries
- year
Year in which the boundaries were created
- url_download
URL querying the API service to return all features as a geojson file