OS Cities Data

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Dataset information

Catalog

data.gov.uk

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Updated

Created

Available languages

English

Keywords

city, urban area, urban concentration, conurbation, human settlement

Datasource

Official portal for European data link

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Dataset description

Great Britain's (England, Scotland, Wales) cities (e.g. London, Birmingham, Edinburgh) named and represented as point features with an indicative bounding box. This data is often used for geocoding, service delivery and statistical analysis. OS Cities Data is available in a number of Ordnance Survey (OS) products: OS Open Names (bounding box and point geometry), OS Names API, MasterMap Topography Layer (point geometry), Vector Map Local (point geometry) and Vector Map District (point geometry). Small-scale cartographic representations are also available in OS cartographic products. All data is collected by Ordnance Survey as part of their role as the National Mapping Agency of Great Britain.

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