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Scotland counties, 1951
- Identification Information
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Spatial Reference Information
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Distribution Information
- Metadata Reference Information
- Identification Information
- Citation
- Originator
- GBHGIS, University of Portsmouth, Research Project
- Publication Date
- 20090930
- Title
- Scotland counties, 1951
- Geospatial Data Presentation Form
- vector digital data
- Online Linkage
- https://figgy.princeton.edu/downloads/19a6e892-4880-4bc5-901b-3f8f4e7936a1/file/f8b83fdb-50f9-4a02-b275-c23c3ebb0847
- Abstract
- These are digital boundaries for the system of counties used in Scotland from medieval times and continuing to exist until 1975, broadly as aggregates of parishes. This file represents the system as it was used to report the 1951 Census of Population. Note that in the twentieth century the four Scottish Cities (Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee) became counties themselves and therefore form separate polygons in this file.
- Purpose
- For displaying historical boundaries with GIS software.
- Supplemental Information
- Gregory, I, Bennett, C, Gilham, V., and Southall, H. 2002. The Great Britain Historical GIS Project: from maps to changing human geography.' The Cartographic Journal, Vol. 39, No. 1, p. 37-49. Southall, H 2012, 'Rebuilding the Great Britain Historical GIS, part 2: a geo-spatial ontology of administrative units' Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, vol 45, no. 3, pp. 119-134. DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2012.664101
- Temporal Extent
- Currentness Reference
- Publication date.
- Time Instant
- 20090930
- Bounding Box
- West
- -9.193079
- East
- -0.714878
- North
- 60.859579
- South
- 54.515277
- Theme Keyword
- history
- counties
- Scottish Counties
- administrative units
- boundary
- boundaries
- administrative boundaries
- administrative divisions
- historical boundaries
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Theme Keyword
- boundaries
- Theme Keyword Thesaurus
- ISO 19115 Topic Categories
- Place Keyword
- United Kingdom
- Scotland
- Place Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Temporal Keyword
- 1951
- Temporal Keyword Thesaurus
- None
- Access Restrictions
- To promote awareness of our work and to provide a public benefit, the University of Portsmouth and the Great Britain Historical GIS makes these county boundaries, but not other more detailed boundaries, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. This does not mean they are in the public domain: (1) You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests that the University of Portsmouth or the Great Britain Historical GIS endorses you or your use. (2) The share-alike requirement means that anything you publish using these boundaries must also be under a CC BY-SA license. In particular, if you use these boundaries to map your attribute data, you must make the attribute data available under that license. For unrestricted commercial licensing, contact gbhgis@port.ac.uk.
- Use Restrictions
- Copies of the boundary data may not be passed on to other users; each user must obtain their own copy of the data from the University of Portsmouth or from a data library authorised to distribute, who are required to maintain a record of users to whom the data have been supplied. Data may be used to create paper maps, non-georeferenced raster images or PDF files, provided they include a copyright notice and acknowledgment. Geo-referenced vector data in any format may not be disseminated by any method, including online downloads or data feeds. For full details see copyright license included with authorised copies of the data.
- Status
- Complete
- Maintenance and Update Frequency
- Unknown
- Point of Contact
- Contact Organization
- University of Portsmouth
- Delivery Point
- Department of Geography. Buckingham Building, Lion Terrace,
- City
- Portsmouth
- Postal Code
- PO1 3HE
- Country
- GB
- Contact Telephone
- +44 (0)23 9284 2500
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- gbhgis@port.ac.uk
- Point of Contact
- Contact Organization
- University of Portsmouth
- Delivery Point
- Department of Geography. Buckingham Building, Lion Terrace,
- City
- Portsmouth
- Postal Code
- PO1 3HE
- Country
- GB
- Contact Telephone
- +44 (0)23 9284 2497
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- humphrey.southall@port.ac.uk
- Point of Contact
- Contact Organization
- Map and Geospatial Information Center, Lewis Library, Princeton University
- Delivery Point
- Map and Geospatial Information Center, Lewis Library, Princeton University
- City
- Princeton
- State
- NJ
- Postal Code
- 08544
- Country
- US
- Contact Telephone
- 609-258-1097
- Credit
- University of Portsmouth
- Native Data Set Environment
- Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Esri ArcGIS 10.2.0.3348
- Spatial Data Organization Information
- Direct Spatial Reference Method
- Vector
- Point and Vector Object Information
- SDTS Terms Description
- SDTS Point and Vector Object Type
- GT-polygon composed of chains
- Point and Vector Object Count
- 37
- Spatial Reference Information
- Horizontal Coordinate System Definition
- Planar
- Map Projection
- Map Projection Name
- British National Grid
- Transverse Mercator
- Scale Factor at Central Meridian
- 0.9996012717
- Longitude of Central Meridian
- -2.0
- Latitude of Projection Origin
- 49.0
- False Easting
- 400000.0
- False Northing
- -100000.0
- Planar Coordinate Information
- Planar Coordinate Encoding Method
- coordinate pair
- Coordinate Representation
- Abscissa Resolution
- 0.000000002219846528817016
- Ordinate Resolution
- 0.000000002219846528817016
- Planar Distance Units
- meter
- Geodetic Model
- Horizontal Datum Name
- D OSGB 1936
- Ellipsoid Name
- Airy 1830
- Semi-major Axis
- 6377563.396
- Denominator of Flattening Ratio
- 299.3249646
- Entity and Attribute Information
- Entity Type
- Entity Type Label
- S1951_scocounties
- Entity Type Definition
- Polygons representing historical administrative divisions.
- Entity Type Definition Source
- University of Portsmouth
- Attributes
- FID
- Internal feature number. (Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.)
- Definition Source
- Esri
- Shape
- Feature geometry. (Coordinates defining the features.)
- Definition Source
- Esri
- G_UNIT
- Unique identifier for unit. (This value is a unique identifier from our gazetteer. The g_unit value can be used to identify the same unit in different years even if the name/boundary/status of the unit has changed.)
- Definition Source
- University of Portsmouth
- G_NAME
- Name of unit at this date.
- Definition Source
- University of Portsmouth
- NAMESTATUS
- Status of name: P = Preferred or O = Official (Equates to "G_NAME_STATUS" in gazetteer) (N.B. see general notes). (As far as possible all unit names are the Preferred English name at the date given in the file name. Where this was unavailable they have been assigned their Preferred Gaelic, Scottish name in that year.
Where the name status is given as 'O' this indicates it was the preferred official name at this particular date, although another name later replaced it as the preferred name.)
- Definition Source
- University of Portsmouth
- G_LANGUAGE
- Language of name: eng = English, gla = Gaelic, Scottish (N.B. see general notes).
- Definition Source
- University of Portsmouth
- UNITTYPE
- Administrative unit type of the unit: SCO_CNTY = Scottish County (Equates to "G_UNIT_TYPE" in gazetteer) (N.B. see general notes). (The Unittype value is the administrative unit type for this unit at the date given in the file name.)
- Definition Source
- University of Portsmouth
- IM_AUTH
- Source of information.
- Definition Source
- University of Portsmouth
- Distribution Information
- Name
- Metadata Reference Information
- Metadata Date
- 20170427
- Metadata Contact
- Contact Information
- Contact Organization Primary
- Contact Organization
- University of Portsmouth
- Contact Person
- Paula Aucott
- Contact Position
- Senior Research Associate
- Contact Address
- Address
- Department of Geography, Buckingham Building, Lion Terrace,
- City
- Portsmouth
- Postal Code
- PO1 3HE
- Country
- GB
- Contact Voice Telephone
- +44 (0)23 9284 2500
- Contact Electronic Mail Address
- paula.aucott@port.ac.uk
- Metadata Standard Name
- FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata Standard Version
- FGDC-STD-001-1998
