Mr Bruce Mitchell CGeog
Employer Name
Office for National Statistics
Biography
I am part of the Geospatial Branch in ONS’ Data Architecture Division. My principal role is GIS lead on the Historical Census Digitisation Project (HCDP) – working towards presenting data from the censuses of England and Wales 1921-1991 to the public. This principally involves sourcing of materials, creation of high-resolution boundaries, generating residential environment proxies, definition of methods, collaborating with ONS Census and a range of prominent academics and feature extraction from raster maps. The recent past has been dominated by managing the publication of the 1961 Second Land Utilisation Survey of Britain (directed by the late Prof. the Alice Coleman) and developing a high-resolution set of Enumeration District and higher geography boundaries for the 1991 Census. In my spare time, I am GIS lead volunteer for a local environmental project.