Open Maps

Hull is a low-lying city, as are some of the towns and villages that surround it. I have blogged before about the serious flooding in the ar...

Today I received two DVDs with Lidar data on them. They cover Hull and some of the surrounding area data showing centimetre height records a...

I have mapped a fairly large area, Hull and most of East Yorkshire. When there was nothing on the map I just added what I found but now ther...

I've just finished extracting the data from a full download of OS Open Names and setting up a layer to see the new postcodes. The postco...

It seems that there are not missing sections in the OS Open Names downloads from OS OpenData. The sections are 20x20 km squares.

As I noted in the previous post Ordnance Survey have said that OS Locator open data is being withdrawn and being replaced by OS Open Names. ...

I just received an email from Ordnance Survey, telling me that OS Locator, part of the OS Open Data, is to be withdrawn in a year's time...