These datasets were compiled by Alasdair Rae, with assistance from Pankaj Parmar, using Ordnance Survey open data and open data from the Office for National Statistics Open Geography Portal (see below).

The original OS data is not split by local authority so that is what we have done here, and shared the files as individual local authority chunks, by type. For the Terrain data I patched together more than 2,000 individual raster tiles to create a full Great Britain terrain layer and then compressed it. The boundary data is just a full resolution local authority ONS boundary file split into individual local authority chunks. I also created a set of QML style files for QGIS users so that you can quickly make your map layers look nice. Just go to the styles folder and read the info text file for more about how to do it. It only takes a few clicks and a few minutes.

**Just want data for your local authority area? Then go to the /zipped-by-area folder and you can download a zipped folder with all layers for your local authority. If you drop these into QGIS directly from the unzipped folder they will be styled automatically and then you can re-order them as per the txt file in each folder.

Data source - Ordnance Survey open data: https://osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open and https://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2022

You are free to use this data for any kind of work, commercial or otherwise. You just need to add the following statement to any outputs you produce "OS data © Crown copyright and database right [add the year here and remove the brackets]".

The full licence conditions can be viewed at the link below.

Licence conditions: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/


Alasdair Rae
Automatic Knowledge Ltd
March 2023