Watsonian Vice County Boundaries
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2017-02-22Type
datasetData Creator
Pope, AddyPublisher
University of EdinburghMetadata
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Pope, Addy. (2017). Watsonian Vice County Boundaries, [Dataset]. University of Edinburgh. https://doi.org/10.7488/ds/1925.Description
The Vice County system for Great Britain was devised by an English botanist, Hewett Cottrell Watson, for the purposes of illustrating plant distributions These digitised boundaries are available free-of-charge as a download to recorders, mapping scheme organisers, local record centres and others. This download will contain 3 datasets, an outline of GB, a zip containing individual Vice Counties and a zip containing all Vice Counties as 1 shapefile. 3 and 12 mile offshore limits are included in each zip. Data sourced from http://www.nbn.org.uk/SpecialPages/WVCB-Download.aspx and released under an Open Government Licence. GIS vector data. This dataset was first accessioned in the EDINA ShareGeo Open repository on 2013-10-31 and migrated to Edinburgh DataShare on 2017-02-22.The following licence files are associated with this item: