I always thought that all local electoral boundaries went via the Boundary
Commission >> Ordnance Survey.

Perhaps they're worth a try?

Richard



2009/11/3 Tim Morley <[email protected]>

> On 3 Nov 2009, at 14:13, Jonathan Bennett wrote:
>
>  The answer is to get authorities and the boundary commission to plot
>> boundaries in OpenStreetMap as well as on OS maps, but I doubt the
>> chances of that happening are very high.
>>
>
> Could this be a "techie task" for DemocracyClub volunteers? While *tracing*
> one map to create another is legally dubious, simply looking at a map,
> relating it to your local knowledge ("ah, the border runs down the middle of
> Avenue Road, and then follows the stream as far as the golf course") and
> then re-plotting that on OpenStreetMap.org is easier to justify.
>
> Taking it one step further, actually *walking* the boundary with a GPS
> recorder running is definitely a legally safe way to get the information, at
> least as I understand things from reading pages of legal wrangling over the
> issue.
>
>
> Tim
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