On 15 Jul 2009, at 15:50, Chris Hill wrote:
I asked the boundary commission recently for boundary data, though I
didn't ask for it in the English rather than geographic form. their
answer was that they define the boundaries but the OS draw them on
behalf of the Boundary Commission, therefore the OS own the
copyright of the drawings. (I've paraphrased a lengthy email
here). They refused to release the data. they also pointed out
that they are responsible for Parliamentary constituencies, "and
plays no part in the setting of county, district, ward, parish or
any other boundary."
Great stuff.
You are right that the Boundary Commission set parliamentary
boundaries, authority boundaries are managed by the Boundary
Committee' a completely different body! Possibly it would be worth
asking them. Here is some info about them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_Committee_for_England
Regards,
Peter Miller
Councils may indeed have the English written versions - it would be
worth asking them
I have had more success with the Crown estates who were very
helpful, but once again their GIS system is based on licenced OS
data and therefore copyright.
Cheers, Chris
Mike Collinson 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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