Those of you who were at the excellent SLA event on 11th September (‘The Locational Data Market’) will have seen Prof. Bob Barr perform; and once seen, never forgotten! Given Bob’s encyclopaedic knowledge of locational data, I think we can see his hand in The Case for an Open National Address Dataset (see Sarah Hitchcock’s blog – ‘The Open Data Group – an inside view’).
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ONS has just published the 2011 Census Geography products at http://www.ons.gov.uk/censusgeography.
These products, detailed in the 2011 Census Geography Prospectus, include boundaries of the modified output areas (OAs) and super output areas (SOAs). They have been made available ahead of the 2011 Census second release estimates, and can be used under Open Government Licence.
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