Re: [talk-au] suburb boundaries

2009-03-07 Thread Darrin Smith
On Sat, 07 Mar 2009 23:51:35 +1100 b.schulz...@scu.edu.au wrote: Hi all, It's really nice to see suburb boundaries popping up around the place, it just makes the map look that little bit more professional. Yeah it is isn't it, Franc has done some nice work. There seems to be some naming

[talk-au] suburb boundaries import - Darwin quirk

2009-03-07 Thread Jeff Price
I was reminiscing about Darwin via OSM and noticed this boundary quirk. The boundary was created by ABS2006 on 1 Mar 09. I thought maybe the Casino had its own boundary but its actually the creek line. http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-12.8lon=130.84079zoom=15layers=B000FTF Franc, I

Re: [talk-au] suburb boundaries import

2009-03-07 Thread Ben Kelley
Hi. For NSW the Lands Department's Geospatial Portal http://gsp.maps.nsw.gov.au/ can show suburb boundaries in the cadastral layer. Of the area in question, where the ABS shows the boundary going neatly down the middle of my street, the NSW Lands Department shows the boundary between 1 street

Re: [talk-au] suburb boundaries import - Darwin quirk

2009-03-07 Thread Franc Carter
Hmm yeah - that looks pretty odd. It *might* be more sensible once the process has finished, but I'm not holding my breath. But please make sure you wait until the upload as finished, as I believe the bulk_upload will get confuse if things have changed when it comes back to reuse those borders

Re: [talk-au] suburb boundaries import

2009-03-07 Thread b . schulz . 10
Hi Ben, This raises an interesting copyright question. If, from multiple sources (Dept of Lands, UBD, ask the council/auspost etc) you can show that the ABS boundary is wrong how do we legally correct it? Without a sign on the ground that states the change of suburb we don't really have

Re: [talk-au] suburb boundaries import

2009-03-07 Thread Cameron
Ask the people who live in the houses. ~Cameron 2009/3/8 b.schulz...@scu.edu.au Hi Ben, This raises an interesting copyright question. If, from multiple sources (Dept of Lands, UBD, ask the council/auspost etc) you can show that the ABS boundary is wrong how do we legally correct it?