Mathew and Co...
Just a word of caution here, not that I am an expert, but....
I think that the boundaries are Ordnance Survey property, so extreme
caution must be applied before using them and I have copied them below for
your interest and a link to a further page for more detail. Note, I am not
laying the law down here, just pointing out the possible problems. - John
Conditions of use
The main Census geography products are included in the scope of Census
Access, and, with the exception of the recovery of material costs, will be
free at the point of use.
The OA boundaries are in part derived from Ordnance Survey material and the
terms and conditions for the use of the vector boundaries on CDs must be
accepted before use. These do not restrict use of the vector boundaries
within an organisation or use jointly by organisations which have each
already accepted the terms of the licence. But there are some
circumstances, particularly commercial value added use of the vector
boundaries, where a further licence from Ordnance Survey may be necessary.
Census Customer Services should be contacted in any case of doubt. The
terms and conditions are here.
<http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/terms_and_conditions.asp>
This page last revised: 07 May 2003
--On 20 June 2003 12:33 +0100 Laine Skinner <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Hi Matthew,
>
> The OA boundaries can be found at:
> http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/op12.asp
>
> They are not at the scale of postcode street level, but are not far from
> it.
>
> Hope this helps
> Laine
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 12:18, Matthew Stanfield wrote:
>> Thank you Andy - this does help a lot. Most of the responses I've had
>> assume either access to Edina or lots of money to spend on data, neither
>> is applicable unfortunately.
>>
>> I'd already found the GROS in Scotland and I've found this also on the
>> National Statistics web site but can't find the England and Wales
>> postcode boundaries on the Nat.Stat. site. Are you sure it is there and,
>> if so, what is it called?
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>>
>> ..matthew
>>
>>
>> Andy Wightman wrote:
>> > Matthew,
>> >
>> > Obtaining digital boundary datasets remains problematic despite
>> > askgiraffe website and others. As one who does freelance research I am
>> > particularly aware of this problem. Recent academic research I was
>> > involved in allowed me access to Digimap http://edina.ac.uk/digimap/
>> > where you can download postcode data. The other key source is
>> > http://edina.ed.ac.uk/ukborders/ However, these is only available to
>> > those with academic posts or affiliations.
>> >
>> > however, undertaking analysis of the 2001 census recently, I realised
>> > that using the freely available geography product availabel from GROS
>> > in Scotland and National Statistics(?) in England and Wales, you can
>> > build your own geographical boundary datasets in a GIS by aggregating
>> > output area polygons using the various lookup tables to postcode
>> > sectors, postcode sectors,health board areas etc.
>> >
>> > Since some datasets from ukborders are not terribly precise (eg.
>> > Scottish parishes), this is a good method for anyone wishing to obtain
>> > such data to do so cheaply and easily (well you have to spoend the
>> > time merging lots of polgon datasets!)
>> >
>> > Hope this helps.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> >
>> > Andy
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