Question: Why are some areas not included in the polygon?

[leej11]

First of all thank you for sharing these files.

I am a complete noob to mapping data so forgive me if it's a silly question. But why are some towns/cities not included in the county polgyon?

For example Nottinghamshire pictured below, does not include the city of Nottingham within it? I noticed similar Leicestershire not including Leicester, Dorset doesn't include Bournemouth area and so on. Makes me think there must be a reason but I don't know why 😄

Thank you in advance

[glynnbird]

It's a good question. To be honest I don't know. I can't remember where I got this data for in the first place - presumably there's another polygon with the major city jigsaw piece...

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[leej11]

No problem, I have since done some more digging and it is something to do with definitions and "Nottingham" is a "Unitary Authority" so is treated separately for whatever reason.

You can source the up to date .geojson files here: https://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/datasets/ons::counties-and-unitary-authorities-december-2023-boundaries-uk-buc-2/explore?location=51.890766%2C-0.537447%2C7.38

And what I am going to personally do is exactly what you say, join the puzzle pieces together (e.g. union Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, Leicester and Leicestershire etc. etc.).

Thought I'd share in case you or anyone else is interested 😄