On 10 September 2012 20:22, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: > Many places of worship in England and Wales, other than CoE/CoW > premises, opt to be included on a government register (though this is > not compulsory): > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Places_of_Worship_Registration_Act_1855 > > and as such have a unique Worship Number, which we could tag (note > though that defunct PoWs may not be removed fro the register, in a > timely manner). > > A copy of the register was published in 2010 and is available in > spreadsheet format: > > > http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/2011/places-of-worship-in-england-and-wales-1999-2009/ > > It may be useful in a number of ways: > > * determining postcodes as discussed recently in > the context of other lists > > * checking formal names of such premise > > * finding premises inside other buildings, inc. private > residences etc, to enable follow-up surveys > > Perhaps we can obtain an updated copy, via a new FoI request, or > asking for it to be published as open data
(link to FOI http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/places_of_worship_registration_a#incoming-84116) It's certainly an interesting data set but in it's current for it's hard to use. We would need it as a CSV or similar rather than a PDF. >From the postcode point of view, it looks like very few of the entries actually have a postcodes so it would be of limited use. However, if we could get it in a machine readable format then it would definitely be useful for the other points you mention. -- Matt Williams http://milliams.com _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
