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		<title>Post Office Closure Map: London</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Visualisation is key to our understanding of spatial data, a fact that large companies and organisations realise which is why perhaps the Post Office haven&#8217;t released a map of the...</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2008/06/13/post-office-closure-map-london/">Post Office Closure Map: London</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.digitalurban.org">Digital Urban</a>.</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Visualisation is key to our understanding of spatial data, a fact that large companies and organisations realise which is why perhaps the Post Office haven&#8217;t released a map of the recent round of post office closures.</p>
<p>They have however published a document entitled &#8216;Network Change Programme Area Plan Decision Booklet, London&#8217;.  <a href="http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk">CASA</a>, home of digital urban, has gone through the document and geo-coded each closure location allowing it to be visualised:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.maptube.org/map.aspx?s=DBDFGlFHJcsKAEEsksHBwKeCwKFI&#038;k=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.casa.ucl.ac.uk%2Frichard%2Fkml%2FLondonPostofficeClosures.kml"><img decoding="async" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ADwvfqkxChw/SFI08wRre8I/AAAAAAAABOU/ETUMnQE27mA/s400/Postoffices1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5211285937176935362" border="0" /></a><br />In May 2007, following a national public consultation, the Government announced a range of<br />proposed measures to modernise and reshape the network of Post Office® branches.  Local public consultation was carried out on the proposed closures with approximately 27,600 pieces of correspondence received and 79 meetings held with customers and their representatives. This resulted in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">saving of only 7 post offices </span>with <span style="font-weight: bold;">155 in the London area now</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> earmarked for closure</span>.</p>
<p>At CASA we have mapped them and uploaded them to our new MapTube service to view. The results are interesting, its all well and good reading a slightly hidden document on the post office website but when you go through all the closures, geo-code them and plot them on a map the impact is clear:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.maptube.org/map.aspx?s=DBDFGlFHJcsKAEEsksHBwKeCwKFI&#038;k=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.casa.ucl.ac.uk%2Frichard%2Fkml%2FLondonPostofficeClosures.kml"><img decoding="async" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ADwvfqkxChw/SFI2nFQxcAI/AAAAAAAABOc/AoxY9eNrq34/s400/Postoffice2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5211287763876409346" border="0" /></a>The red dots indicate current post office locations with the blue markers confirmed closures. You can type in your postcode using the Google Search at the bottom left of the map to see if your local branch is closing.</p>
<p>Click to <a href="http://www.maptube.org/map.aspx?s=DBDFGlFHJcsKAEEsksHBwKeCwKFI&#038;k=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.casa.ucl.ac.uk%2Frichard%2Fkml%2FLondonPostofficeClosures.kml">View the Postcode Closure Map for London via MapTube</a></p>
<p>Current <a href="http://www.postoffice.co.uk/portal/po/content1?catId=57600693&#038;mediaId=57600697">public documents from the Post Office can be found here</a>.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://www.digitalurban.org/blog/2008/06/13/post-office-closure-map-london/">Post Office Closure Map: London</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.digitalurban.org">Digital Urban</a>.</p>
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