<div class="gmail_quote">On 7 April 2010 09:10, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ajrlists@googlemail.com">ajrlists@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-GB"><div><p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">With the election process underway we might think about a topical map.
If we can get the ward boundary data into OSM in time then we could show a map
with some colouring that shows what the current lay of the land is in the west
mids and which are marginal seats, retiring candidates, etc etc.</span></font></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I think this would be really good. As somebody pretty involved in local politics (and running to win a council seat) I'm really looking forward to gettign the full administrative boundaries into OSM.<br>
<br>Wards where more than one party are represented will be an interesting challenge if you want to colour them, as will areas with quite a diverse set of parties with similar traditional colours and with independents.<br>
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<p><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">One fly in the ointment is that the ward boundaries in Boundary-Line
are I believe the 2009 positions and not the new ward boundaries that will
shape this next election. The changes are discussed in the User Guide (Annexe
A). I assume that OS OpenData Boundary Line will be updated to the new boundary
data in May, but I don’t see anything specific on that yet</span></font><br></p></div></div></blockquote></div>At least in my area the ward boundaries are unchanged, though a few Parliamentary constituencies have changed :-)<br>
<br>Tom<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><a href="http://tom.acrewoods.net">http://tom.acrewoods.net</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/tom_chance">http://twitter.com/tom_chance</a><br>