{"id":55,"date":"2010-04-01T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T09:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=55"},"modified":"2010-04-01T09:19:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T09:19:00","slug":"ordnance-survey-releases-data-no-its-not-an-april-fools-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Ordnance Survey Releases Data &#8211; No its not an April fools joke!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Updated: The Twitterites inform that this is a faster download link:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/parlvid.mysociety.org:81\/os\/\">http:\/\/parlvid.mysociety.org:81\/os\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well it finally happened some nice big datasets are now available, visit these sites for more details:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/data.gov.uk\/data\/publicbody\/Ordnance%2520Survey\">http:\/\/data.gov.uk\/data\/publicbody\/Ordnance%2520Survey<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk\/opendatadownload\/products.html\">https:\/\/www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk\/opendatadownload\/products.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I will hopefully have an opinion on what&#8217;s been released later but for the moment just enjoy the idea that you can easily (provided the server is not down) download (shapefiles and the like).&nbsp;&nbsp; Select the data you want (either as a DVD or download) then give them your email address, they will then send you a link for downloaded your fresh datasets.<\/p>\n<p>I have downloaded the boundaryline dataset and opened it up in ArcGIS, it even has Parish boundaries&#8230;. now what do I do with it all?<\/p>\n<p>Keep trying on the site as it obviously has been working very hard this morning to stay afloat!&nbsp; My suggestion is to wait until the evening (or a couple of days) to do the downloads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: The Twitterites inform that this is a faster download link:http:\/\/parlvid.mysociety.org:81\/os\/ Well it finally happened some nice big datasets are now available, visit these sites for more details: http:\/\/data.gov.uk\/data\/publicbody\/Ordnance%2520Survey https:\/\/www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk\/opendatadownload\/products.html I will hopefully have an opinion on what&#8217;s been released later but for the moment just enjoy the idea that you can easily (provided the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,59,10,17,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-arcgis","category-data","category-datasets","category-downloads","category-maps","category-ordnance-survey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}