< Geometry Library

United Kingdom

A United Kingdom geography release joining a country-owned ONS Admin 0-2 spine to official Ordnance Survey populated places for Great Britain, with Northern Ireland recorded as an explicit place-source gap.

GBR Release 0.1.0 Candidate Pass

What this country release covers

One maintained release connects persistent place identity, display-ready map geometry, and exact query representations without treating them as interchangeable files.

Identities43,637
Identity versions0
Aliases0
Relationships365
Reference families4
Identities with shapes0

Release architecture

Canonical country release gbr_reference_graph_0_1_0_candidate
published bucket

Processed reference graph

Cloud and local identity, alias, hierarchy, and cross-reference queries.

23.2 KB source bytes · 7 artifacts
published bucket

Simplified display geometry

Interactive app and map display; not authoritative for exact containment.

19.6 MB source bytes · 1 artifacts
published bucket

Exact query geometry

Precise boundary retrieval, measurement, and containment.

- source bytes · artifacts
published bucket

Exact predicate representation

Memory-bounded local point lookup and containment execution.

- source bytes · artifacts

Administrative hierarchy

Admin United Kingdom
Admin 1Constituent country
Admin 2Local authority district

Available geography families

A family is a recurring kind of geographic reference system. Only the selected complete hierarchy is the administrative spine; postal, electoral, health, watershed, and other systems remain independently versioned sidechains connected to it.

Runtime Qa

Administrative spine

The one selected country hierarchy whose levels tile, nest, and cover their declared extent.

Examples: states, provinces, counties, municipalities, census units
Runtime Qa

Cities, places, and municipalities

Authority-defined cities, towns, municipalities, settlements, and other place systems, including their boundaries when they sit outside the selected administrative spine.

Examples: cities, towns, municipalities, incorporated and census-designated places

Local download packages

Lite contains identities and crosswalks, Display adds simplified map geometry, and Detail adds the highest-resolution maintained geometry. A package appears as downloadable only after artifact and public-reachability QA passes.

lite

United Kingdom Reference Lite

Standalone identity, alias, and relationship partitions without shapes.

united-kingdom-reference-lite
23.2 KB estimated source payloadPackaging and QA in progress
display

United Kingdom Geometry Display

The complete reference layer plus the ONS administrative display geometry.

united-kingdom-geometry-display
19.6 MB estimated source payloadPackaging and QA in progress
detail

United Kingdom Geometry Detail

Reference and display layers plus exact administrative and populated-place geometry.

united-kingdom-geometry-detail
19.6 MB estimated source payloadPackaging and QA in progress

Release QA

  • The country-owned ONS spine has complete Admin 0-2 parent closure.
  • OS Open Names populated places retain their official point geometry and settlement subtype.
  • Northern Ireland place coverage is explicitly unavailable rather than filled from legacy or unclear-licence data.
  • The reference graph is local and unpublished.

Source authorities

Office for National StatisticsOrdnance Survey