Watsonian Vice County Boundaries

The Watsonian Vice County Boundaries are available as digital boundaries for use within GIS systems completely free of charge.

About

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 to recorders, mapping scheme organisers, local record centres and others on a CD. The CD includes a software tool that can be used to generate single Vice County Boundaries, country sets or any combination of individual counties. Because the boundaries are at a scale of 1:10,000 a GIS system such as MapInfo is needed to view the boundaries against suitable map backgrounds although the boundaries can also be loaded and viewed in Recorder and it is hoped that Dmap versions will also become available.

Licence

The boundaries are issued under licence. Before downloading the data please ensure you have completed the licence acceptance form

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