Re: [Talk-GB] Municipal boundaries

2009-07-16 Thread Chris Hill
David Earl wrote: Chris Hill wrote: Since this is a Freedom of Information Act request, and they have refused to supply me the requested information I'll ask the Office of the Information Commissioner for a ruling. Not expecting much, but you never know. Even if they did or do supply

Re: [Talk-GB] Municipal boundaries

2009-07-16 Thread Peter Miller
On 16 Jul 2009, at 11:31, Chris Hill wrote: David Earl wrote: Chris Hill wrote: Since this is a Freedom of Information Act request, and they have refused to supply me the requested information I'll ask the Office of the Information Commissioner for a ruling. Not expecting much, but

[Talk-GB] Municipal boundaries

2009-07-15 Thread Mike Collinson
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

Re: [Talk-GB] Municipal boundaries

2009-07-15 Thread Peter Miller
On 15 Jul 2009, at 14:13, Abigail Brady wrote: 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

Re: [Talk-GB] Municipal boundaries

2009-07-15 Thread Matthew Westcott
If all else fails, have we considered the option of reverse- engineering our own text-based definitions from the OS-derived data, following a clean room approach (i.e. one person writes the text by reference to the OS map, and passes it on to someone else who plots it on OSM)? Yes,