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
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