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UK Ordnance Survey Opens Up Detailed Map Data, API

• heyitsnick 17y ago
  I posted this (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1236781 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1236781) with a link to The Guardian article (http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/apr/02/ordnance-survey-open-data http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/apr/02/ordnance...). The Guardian have long run a campaign to get the UK to open their data, and the OS is a really big win. Prior to this, post-office data was very expensive to license (despite the information having been gathered with UK tax payer money) You can browse the data available and download the CSVs directly here: http://data.gov.uk/data/publicbody/Ordnance%2520Survey http://data.gov.uk/data/publicbody/Ordnance%2520Survey Data includes full postcode lookup: http://data.gov.uk/dataset/os-code-point-open http://data.gov.uk/dataset/os-code-point-open And all transit (bus stops, train stations): http://data.gov.uk/dataset/naptan http://data.gov.uk/dataset/naptan
  • ralph 17y ago
    Am I right in thinking that this is post code <-> lat/long, and not post code <-> address which Royal Mail still keep under wraps?
    • ZeroGravitas 17y ago
      Yes. There's info on exactly what everything is here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_Opendata#Code-Point_Open http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_Opendata#...
• kierank 17y ago
  They're using Amazon EC2 to host it which is pretty notable for a government agency.