Hugh,

 

Just a few quick suggestions:

 

1. You probably know that for Great Britain, Ordnance Survey Boundary-Line ( https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/boundary-line.html ) can be freely downloaded as OS Opendata, so available under very liberal licensing – the Open Government Licence https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/licensing/using-creating-data-with-os-products/os-opendata.html . This has historic county boundaries and present unitary authority jurisdictions, as well as a range of more detailed administrative units, including parishes, and parliamentary jurisdictions.

 

2. Globally, the GADM website ( https://gadm.org/index.html ) provides vector downloads of administrative areas for all country borders and some administrative areas within those borders, which are freely available for academic use and other non-commercial use.

 

3. Natural Earth ( https://www.naturalearthdata.com/ ) has country boundaries, as well as some regions and administrative boundaries to level 1: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-cultural-vectors/  which are in the public domain.

 

4. The ESRI World Boundaries and Places layer (https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=a842e359856a4365b1ddf8cc34fde079 ) may be of interest, but has more restrictive terms of use.

 

Chris

 

 

Chris Fleet
Map Curator | Collections and Research Department

National Library of Scotland
159 Causewayside, Edinburgh EH9 1PH

Tel: 0131 623 4670
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