Hello my Scottish friends!

I'm in the midst of a project involving maps, and have come unstuck once I reach north of the border.

When looking at England, there are plenty of maps which include all manner of boundaries/town/village lines (for example, for this one of England, if you look at the bottom right version there's a tonne of subdivisions for villages/towns https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/vector-set-of-england-maps-with-largest-cities-gm1128724219-297925381 ).

However, with Scotland, the best I can seem to find is one like this: https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/vector-map-of-british-isles-administrative-divisions-colored-by-countries-and-gm911780848-251031690

Is it that you literally don't have any further subdivisions (for example, are there no further boundaries that exist within Perth and Kinross?) or is it that I'm just not finding a map that shows their boundaries?

If such a thing exists, it would be incredibly helpful if you're able to let me know if there's a name for it – or better yet, where it is 😀

Thanks!

by TwoInchTickler

3 comments

  2. Those images you’ve linked aren’t very clear – it would be helpful to know exactly what those subdivisions are in England.

    >Is it that you literally don’t have any further subdivisions (for example, are there no further boundaries that exist within Perth and Kinross?) or is it that I’m just not finding a map that shows their boundaries?

    Each council area has electoral wards, who elect members of the council: [https://boundaries.scot/boundary-maps](https://boundaries.scot/boundary-maps)

    There are also Community Councils which cover a smaller area than the wards (usually an individual small town or village) however they don’t have much power and a lot of them are not active: [https://www.communitycouncils.scot/community-council-finder](https://www.communitycouncils.scot/community-council-finder)

  3. Generally you want to look for geospatial data – GeoJSON, ESRI Shapefiles etc. You can then load these into mapping GIS software like QGIS and generate images from that.

    A good starting point is the Ordnance Survey Open Data – possibly the BoundaryLine data is what you need?

    [https://osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open/BoundaryLine](https://osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open/BoundaryLine)

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