On 07/01/2008, Tim Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 07:54 +0000, Andrew Larcombe wrote: > > On 7 Jan 2008, at 04:21, Tim Bowden wrote: > > > > > Thanks. Looks like I can probably get what I need from their wms. > > > > > > FWIW, it looks like their wms server comes out of edina who are the > > suppliers of the academic datasets as mentioned originally. > > Yes. According to the visionofbritain.org.uk web site about page: "This > web site was created by the Great Britain Historical GIS Project". From > what I could gather from reading both sites, it appears they have may > have been created from separate funding projects though. It would seem > the historiccountiestrust.co.uk effort at digitising the county > boundaries is duplicating what almost certainly already exists in the > gbhg effort, but hasn't been made public because nobody funded them to > make it public. >
The more I look at visionofbritain the more data I realise is hidden away in there (I didnt realise they had boundary data) Now heres an off the wall idea (maybe ;), could WE fund them to make it public. By that I mean ask them what would it cost to put the data in some accessible form (possibly just as simple as a FTP server), then setup a Coin Jar, so that people interested in the data could contribute toward that jar. I've seen a similar project to liberate USGS maps. Certainly I would be willing to contribute something towards it, and I'm sure others would too. Should I approach them? (I have a few contacts from previous dealings) (Of course it could simply be they didnt realise the data would be useful to others?) -- Barry - www.nearby.org.uk - www.geograph.org.uk - _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
