I'm looking for the coordinates for UK area's, locality, state/province (part of the problem finding them may be that they don't have a definite name).
I know that postcode coordinates can be obtained under license, but is this the same for area's (e.g. borough's of London). Surely Royal Mail can't charge for these too?
I want to create polygon regions on google maps to show nodes within an area.
Thanks
Leon
Wait until April the 1st. The government are releasing all of this information then.
I will find a link for you.
Read this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8402327.stm
The government is planning to give anyone free access to postcode data. The move will be made as part of its commitment to make more use of technology and the web to transform official services.
Currently organisations that want access to datasets that tie postcodes to physical locations cannot do so without incurring a charge.
Following a brief consultation, the postcode information is set to be freed in April 2010.
The Office for National Statistics offer a free DVD containing the complete set of vector boundaries for the 175,434 output areas (think neighbourhoods) in England and Wales.
The DVD is available here.
I think it's worth looking around the OfNS site for the information you're after, but you should be aware that the data set you're after is extremely large.
I just searched our shiny new data.gov.uk website and found this
CD available free, SHP and MIF
This product contains the complete set of vector (re-usable) boundaries for urban areas and settlements in England and Wales. Boundaries are provided for all the areas of urban land for which Census results have been provided - both urban areas with at least 1,500 residents in 2001 and settlements with fewer than 1,500 residents in 2001 - and allow the exact boundaries (rather than the approximation by Output Areas) of areas of urban land to be loaded into most standard GIS systems.