A hexagonal cartogram of Westminster parliamentary constituencies, stored as a simple feature.

Originally created by Ben Flanagan at ESRI, with coordinates in Easting and Northing. The coordinates in the original shapefile were converted into Latitude and Longitude in QGIS, and the hexagon representing Ynys Mon was moved to be closer to the mainland of Wales.

west_hex_map

Format

An sf and data.frame object, containing 650 elements and 8 variables.

object_id

Row Name

constituency_name

The name of the constituency

description

Description of constituency type

gss_code

The constituency GSS (Government Statistical Service) code

region_name

Name of region within the UK

shape_length

The lengths of the shape

shape_area

The area of shape

geometry

Shape geometry/projection

Source

http://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=15baaa6fecd54aa4b7250780b6534682