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OAs/SOAs
Posted by Alison Peacock (not verified) on 12/12/2006 - 15:02
The availability of free digital boundaries for OAs/SOAs has opened up the potential of GIS for many organisations other than government, academic and commercial. Not all of these currently have access to digital postal geographies or postcode/admin boundary converters - if a decision is made to move in the direction of postcodes, will digital boundaries still be freely available?