[Talk-GB] New datasets being released by the DfT

[Andy Allan]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Not that I'm aware of. From the ones I've seen so far, the geocoding
>> isn't exactly great for them, so I suspect they've been geocoded using
>> the address or postcode.
>
> Gah, now that I look at the actual carpark data instead of just
> looking at the telegraph's map, there's not actually any coordinates
> in the dataset at all. Silly me.

Right. The actual actual data has eastings and northings. The excel
spreadsheet the telegraph links to doesn't. And it appears to me that
the telegraph's Google map is made from the spreadsheet, using
geocoded addresses rather than the actual eastings and northings.

I'll shut up on this now!

Cheers,
Andy