Community Council Boundaries - Scotland
Community councils are required to be established by local authorities. They are the most local tier of statutory representation in Scotland. They bridge the gap between local authorities and communities and help to make public bodies aware of the opinions and needs of the communities they represent. Community councils are statutory consultees under various processes, such as for planning applications. There are many instances where polygons do not tessellate or snap to local authority boundaries. The Spatial Hub processing can correct for some minor gap errors (<5m) but not larger ones. Such gaps in the dataset mean that it cannot potentially be used for some kinds of spatial analysis e.g. point in polygon, because some point locations may fall within the gaps. These gaps either require amendment at source or approval for the IS to change.
Trust score
How is this computed?Composite of 5 axes from our methodology (proof-based officialness, live verification, metadata completeness, license clarity, agent readiness).
- Officialnessweight 25%50/100
Not public-sector → neutral score; not subject to the proof checker.
- Availabilityweight 25%100/100
Latest verification succeeded.
- Metadata completenessweight 20%30/100
3 of 10 recommended metadata fields populated.
- License clarityweight 15%50/100
License info not yet tracked for APIs (datasets only).
- Agent readinessweight 15%10/100
Topic tags assigned
Data access
A queryable map-feature service. Its attribute schema couldn't be read automatically — query the service endpoint directly to inspect its fields.
Verification Status
Using the API
Configuration
- Base URL
- https://geo.spatialhub.scot/geoserver/sh_commcnc/wfs?authkey=b85aa063-d598-4582-8e45-e7e6048718fc&request=GetCapabilities&service=wfs
Query examples
curl -s 'https://geo.spatialhub.scot/geoserver/sh_commcnc/wfs?authkey=b85aa063-d598-4582-8e45-e7e6048718fc&request=GetCapabilities&service=wfs&version=2.0.0' -H 'Accept: application/json'List the feature types (layers) and supported operations.