[Talk-GB] Municipal boundaries

[Mike Collinson]

I don't know whether this has been explored before, but a tit-bit from Bob Barr who gave a SOTM key note last year and enjoyed himself so he came again.

Bob is councillor in ?Warrington and once asked all the councils in the greater Manchester area for boundary data.  All supplied him OS-derived data except Stockport which gave him a copy of original definition which is text based ("The boundary goes down the centre of WhatNot Street and then turns left along Kirk Lane ...") and therefore free of  OS copyright issues. Each area in the country should have one of these document BEFORE the information is transcribed into coordinates. He suggests asking the Boundary Commission under the Freedom of Information Act for the whole set.

As far as I can tell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_Commissions_%28United_Kingdom%29, there is one Commission for England http://www.statistics.gov.uk/pbc/default.asp, one for Scotland etc.

Anyone tried this? Anyone game?


Mike