<p>Most maps of Great Britain derive from the maps published by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Her Majesty's Ordnance Survey</a>.  The official website is <a href="https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/</a> and the <a href="https://shop.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/apps/os-maps/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">sales page</a> says that for £23.99 you can get a 1 year subscription to a digital app that gives you the ability to export in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_Exchange_Format" rel="nofollow noreferrer">GPX</a> digital format.</p>
<p>A crowd sourced version working on a map of the world is <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The Open Street Map</a> Project.  This is equivalent to your rejected option of Wikipedia but I mention it for others that may land on this question.</p>

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<p>I usually refer to two free of charge sources for administrative division maps:</p>
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<li>for Europe, as in your case (I hope they still hold the maps of UK even after Brexit...) you can use the official NUTS - Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics maps from EUROSTAT available <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/nuts/nuts-maps" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>;</li>
<li>EUROSTAT has also a regularly updated dataset of the official boundaries for the whole world <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data/administrative-units-statistical-units/countries" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a> (latest update 2020, but I don't remember how down to the finer statistical territorial units they get with this);</li>
<li>DIVA GIS repository: administrative maps of every country in the world (not sure how updated this is), available <a href="https://www.diva-gis.org/gdata" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>.</li>
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<p>I'm sure there will be more datasets like these, but these should fit your purposes.</p>

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<p>I need an administrative division map of england for a motivation for some scientific workshop. I don't want to cite wikipedia for this. Sadly I can't find any official resources and I don't really know what sites are generally trusted or scientific.</p>
<p>Any tips? I hope this is the correct forum for this answer.</p>

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# Resource for scientific maps?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-09-17)

I need an administrative division map of england for a motivation for some scientific workshop. I don't want to cite wikipedia for this. Sadly I can't find any official resources and I don't really know what sites are generally trusted or scientific.

Any tips? I hope this is the correct forum for this answer.

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### Answer by username_2 on 2020-09-18. Score: 3 | Accepted answer

I usually refer to two free of charge sources for administrative division maps:

* for Europe, as in your case (I hope they still hold the maps of UK even after Brexit...) you can use the official NUTS - Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics maps from EUROSTAT available [here](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/nuts/nuts-maps);
* EUROSTAT has also a regularly updated dataset of the official boundaries for the whole world [here](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data/administrative-units-statistical-units/countries) (latest update 2020, but I don't remember how down to the finer statistical territorial units they get with this);
* DIVA GIS repository: administrative maps of every country in the world (not sure how updated this is), available [here](https://www.diva-gis.org/gdata).

I'm sure there will be more datasets like these, but these should fit your purposes.


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### Answer by username_1 on 2020-09-18. Score: 3

Most maps of Great Britain derive from the maps published by [Her Majesty's Ordnance Survey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey). The official website is <https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/> and the [sales page](https://shop.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/apps/os-maps/) says that for £23.99 you can get a 1 year subscription to a digital app that gives you the ability to export in the [GPX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_Exchange_Format) digital format.

A crowd sourced version working on a map of the world is [The Open Street Map](https://www.openstreetmap.org/) Project. This is equivalent to your rejected option of Wikipedia but I mention it for others that may land on this question.


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