[Talk-GB] New OS Open Data Release?

[Steve Doerr]

Thanks, Owen.

Having downloaded the data and looked at my local area, the boundaries 
mapped seem to be based on grid squares, so not really the type of data 
we'd be interested in:

-- 
Steve


On 08/12/2022 18:11, Owen Boswarva wrote:
> Yes, that is a new Ordnance Survey open data product. There is also an 
> ONS boundary dataset, Built-up Areas (2022), released yesterday: 
> https://geoportal.statistics.gov.uk/datasets/ons::built-up-areas-2022-gb-bgg/about
>
> The ONS dataset contains the same area boundaries as OS Open Built Up 
> Areas, with some different attribute data.
>
>
>
> On Thu, 8 Dec 2022 at 18:03, Steve Doerr <doerr.stephen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     I don't think I've noticed this dataset before:
>     https://osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open/BuiltUpAreas
>
>     Not something we've directly tried to map in OSM, though perhaps
>     in the
>     early days landuse=residential|commercial|industrial was intended
>     to be
>     the same thing with slightly more granularity. Interesting that they
>     actually include 'unique names'. I haven't downloaded the data to
>     look
>     at it, but I wonder if there's any use at all that could be made
>     of it
>     in OSM?
>
>     -- 
>
>     Steve
>
>
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