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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>I notice that the Office of National Statistics
publishes a document detailing the total mileage of roads in each county in the
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><a
href="http://www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBASE/Source.asp?vlnk=1255&More=Y">http://www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBASE/Source.asp?vlnk=1255&More=Y</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>This document is evidently only available on paper,
but the data clearly exists and if we produced our own statistics from OSM data
on a county by county basis it would be possible to compare this with the official
figures. To achieve this we would need accurate county boundaries. Is this available
from OSM or from some creative commons source? If not then a <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region> university
would certainly have access to the right data and also the ability to do the
stats for us. I don’t believe that that could possibly create IPR issues.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>It might also be useful to be able to create an
index of road/street names for all the named roads within a defined area (a
county / borough etc). This could be used to firstly pick up typos, and then to
manually cross reference with a commercial data source. One would of course
then need to re-survey the streets in question to ensure that the differences
were indeed our problem and what we should have on our maps.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Would it also be usefully to create a list of road ‘ref’s’
in a county, starting with Motorways, ‘A’ roads, then ‘B’
roads and their length within each county? This would again pick up typos,
missing references and also give a measure of completeness when compared to
lists from other sources.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Peter<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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