[Talk-GB] UK administrative subdivisions

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> Generally speaking this list is pretty poor, if is is meant to be  
> complete.  If it's not meant to be complete, then oh well. Things  
> are misclassified (Derry), outright missing (Bedfordshire,  
> Lincolnshire, Leicester, London Borough of Bexley, Hammersmith and  
> Fulham, etc etc).
>
> Whoever prepared this doesn't appear to have been familiar with UK  
> subdivisions given the names for the units

It is hard to find out who exactly prepared the list. I downloaded a  
huge shapefile with administrative subdivisions for many countries  
from the GADM project, and they say their EU data comes from UNEP/ 
GRID. The UNEP/GRID web site (http://www.grid.unep.ch/) has a  
download in Arc/Info file format (.e00) but I wasn't able to process  
that usefully.

But I fear that if the list is as buggy as you say, then the polygons  
that go with it won't be up to scratch either ;-(

Bye
Frederik

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