tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19519354.post6484689005612495629..comments2023-06-30T13:58:14.439+01:00Comments on Doogal Bell's bloggy thing: The trouble with countiesDoogalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17764319095707998627noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19519354.post-70993609670944934202015-05-08T21:01:41.924+01:002015-05-08T21:01:41.924+01:00I think you might be onto something there! I'd...I think you might be onto something there! I'd always assumed ceremonial counties were just a different name for traditional counties but it looks like it should be possible to map the districts onto the ceremonial counties. It probably won't satisfy everyone but I think it's a pretty decent compromise. Cheers!Doogalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17764319095707998627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19519354.post-14154233376024358722015-05-08T13:52:14.357+01:002015-05-08T13:52:14.357+01:00Haven't looked at this properly but do all the...Haven't looked at this properly but do all the individual LAU/NUTS1 districts map on to ceremonial counties? e.g. Hyndburn, Chorley, Blacknurn etc all Lancashire?<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19519354.post-61690339188023471522015-05-06T22:07:48.506+01:002015-05-06T22:07:48.506+01:00I think the NUTS/LAU approach is a very sensible a...I think the NUTS/LAU approach is a very sensible approach to chopping up geographical data. It's well defined and it's easy to get hold of the boundary data. <br /><br />I guess my problem is that users of my site are interested in chopping up postcode data by county, because there's a historical attachment to them. I'm the same, I'm from Lancashire, not Hyndburn...Doogalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17764319095707998627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19519354.post-33422418025615458862015-05-06T16:59:38.617+01:002015-05-06T16:59:38.617+01:00Hi Chris
Just stumbled across your site and have t...Hi Chris<br />Just stumbled across your site and have to say that I think it's fantastic what you've been doing - saved me a lot of headaches earlier today trying to work out eastings, northings etc.....<br /><br />The Authority/Council thing been bothering me for a while and although I'm not great with this GIS/GeoCoding stuff and using maps more to represent data. Because of that I opted to use the NUTS/LAU areas, partly because I thought could probably get some useful comparison datasets if I went down that route.<br /><br />Any thoughts on that as an approach and whether it gets around the counties issue??<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_administrative_unitAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com