This is certainly worth pursuing. Unfortunately, the real problem comes in
rural areas where, for example, boundaries are defined to be the paths of
things like hedges that aren't there any more, previous courses of rivers,
etc. There are some boundaries where the 'master definition' is defined by
law with reference to an OS-derived map, without a textual description...
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Mike Collinson <m...@ayeltd.biz> wrote:
> 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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