DaedalMap

Country geometry release

United Kingdom

A United Kingdom runtime release joining an official relationship-backed Admin 0-3 hierarchy to Ordnance Survey populated places for Great Britain, with Northern Ireland recorded as an explicit place-source gap. Display, lite, and downloadable bundle representations are deferred.

GBRRelease 1.2.6Available

Administrative spine: Admin 0-3

The main join path. Every geometry family in this release connects to the spine through crosswalks.

LevelNamePlaces
Admin 0United Kingdom1
Admin 1Constituent country4
Admin 2Local authority district374
Admin 3MSOA, intermediate zone, or district electoral area8,678

Local level names and synonyms

Geometry families (1)

Cities, places, and municipalities

  • OS Open Names populated places, April 2026, Great Britain (43,271)
  • OS Open Names populated places, July 2026, Great Britain (43,271)
Includes: CITY, Hamlet, Other settlement, Suburban area, TOWN, Village

In numbers

The United Kingdom loc_ids, crosswalks, simplified map shapes, and full geometry, released and versioned together.

loc_ids60,728
Relationships8,778
Geometry families2

Attribution and citation

DaedalMap. United Kingdom geometry release 1.2.6. https://www.daedalmap.com/geometry/united-kingdom

Source agencies

Office for National StatisticsOrdnance Survey

Crosswalks

Country History

How to read dates and sources: geometry methodology.

Patch Notes