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Where to find the map of the UK regions in GeoJSON format

I am trying to get a map of uk areas, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_England , in GeoJSON format, to use it in a website visit map on a website, is there a place where you can get data for different countries in GeoJSON format?

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You can download the UK administrative borders: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendatadownload/products.html

Scroll down until you see Border Boundary.

You will need to convert the form files to geojson using the GIS tool. Here is a step-by-step guide:

http://blog-en.openalfa.com/how-to-add-interactive-maps-to-a-web-site/

The form files provided by the Ordination Overview have different levels of detail. Looks like you just need to convert the form file european_region_region.shp .

 ogr2ogr -f GeoJSON european_region_region.json european_region_region.shp

EDIT: don't forget to convert from Northing / Easting to Lat / Long if you want to work with worksheet, Google Maps, etc.

 ogr2ogr -t_srs WGS84 -f GeoJSON european_region_region.json european_region_region.shp

Ordinance Survey has a licensing policy that you must follow:

https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/docs/licences/os-opendata-licence.pdf

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There is a useful github repository containing GeoJSON border information for the UK converted from ONS shapefiles https://github.com/martinjc/UK-GeoJSON

  • Local Government (LAD)
  • European Electoral Regions (EER)
  • Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies (WPC)
  • Election commissions
  • Eurostat Boundaries (NUTS Level 1 and 2) for England, Scotland and Wales
  • Statistical areas (super output, etc.) used by ONS

Northern Ireland is an exception due to strict licensing by the government organization of "publicly available" information.

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I can’t say whether you are looking for country-level or sub-country borders. If this is the first, then:

Some examples for d3.js use the GeoJSON file, which contains all countries of the world. You can find it here: https://github.com/mbostock/d3/blob/master/examples/data/world-countries.json .

D3.js is also a great basis for actually rendering this data in svg, so if you haven’t done this yet, you can look at it. For example: http://bl.ocks.org/2206590 .

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If you just want the GeoJson files of the UK borders (including NI), you should just use - http://mapit.mysociety.org

Northern Border of LGD (Council) - http://mapit.mysociety.org/areas/LGD.html

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Here are the ONS website data that you can downlaod in different formats

https://data.gov.uk/data/search?theme-primary=Mapping&res_format=GeoJSON

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