Government Office Regions are used for administrative purposes. (Nations, rather than regions, in the cases of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) <http://www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/gor.asp>
There is also a Wikipedia article <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_England> -- Peter Millar ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Black" <[email protected]> To: "talk-gb OSM List (E-mail)" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, 15 January, 2010 18:21:52 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: [Talk-GB] Definitions of regions Not strictly an OSM question but people here might be able to help me. I have a list of places with outwards postcodes (eg N1). I would like to group them into regions - London, North East, Midlands. Does anyone know a suitable list of regions to use. I suspect the regions and postcode boundaries don't exactly align but that doesnt bother me for the purposes I need. Thanks Andrew _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
