{"id":868,"date":"2011-09-10T18:24:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T16:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.commonknowledge.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=868"},"modified":"2011-09-10T18:33:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T16:33:20","slug":"ordnance-survey-open-data-a-gift-from-hmg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commonknowledge.org.uk\/wordpress\/news\/ordnance-survey-open-data-a-gift-from-hmg\/","title":{"rendered":"Ordnance Survey Open Data – a gift from HMG"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Open Data logo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I don’t know how many people know about this but the Ordnance Survey now give away astonishing mapping tools as part of their Open Data.\u00a0Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think this came out of Gordon Brown enlisting Tim Berners-Lee to see how government could free up data it held to help the economy.\u00a0I have now used it for postcodes.<\/p>\n

Up until now the only way I knew of confirming a postcode inside a London Borough was through the Post Office Address File (PAF) which is resold by people like Quick Address Systems to junk mail (snail-mail) houses for hundreds or thousands of semolians.<\/p>\n

If you go to Ordnance Survey’s download page<\/a> you’ll see Code Point Open which is what I used. Every postcode in the country, it’s co-ordinates and the Administrative district and ward not to mention National Health area.<\/p>\n

Currently I’m using it for a CAB website where people can see if they live in the borough or not from their postcode… or which CAB they should go to….<\/p>\n

But look at some of the other datasets… it really has some exciting possibilities.<\/p>\n

The Government Open Data licence<\/a> reads just like the GNU Open Source licence – you’re free to use the data how you like as long as you attribute the source and don’t use it for evil. ;-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know how many people know about this but the Ordnance Survey now give away astonishing mapping tools as part of their Open Data.\u00a0Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think this came out of Gordon Brown enlisting Tim Berners-Lee to see how government could free up data it held to help the economy.\u00a0I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commonknowledge.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commonknowledge.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commonknowledge.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commonknowledge.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commonknowledge.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/commonknowledge.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870,"href":"http:\/\/commonknowledge.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commonknowledge.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commonknowledge.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commonknowledge.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}