Re: [talk-au] National Park Marine Park boundaries

2008-12-18 Thread Hugh Barnes
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:41:59 +1100 Matt White mattwh...@iinet.com.au wrote: I have a sneaking suspicion that National Parks and State Forests are defined by acts of Parliament at the federal and state levels respectively, so the co-ord are probably in Hansard somewhere... Well,

Re: [talk-au] National Park Marine Park boundaries

2008-12-18 Thread Matt White
Hugh Barnes wrote: On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:41:59 +1100 Matt White mattwh...@iinet.com.au wrote: I have a sneaking suspicion that National Parks and State Forests are defined by acts of Parliament at the federal and state levels respectively, so the co-ord are probably in

Re: [talk-au] National Park Marine Park boundaries

2008-12-17 Thread Liz
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Matt White wrote: How are people mapping National Park (or state forest or other government mandated areas)? It seems that in a lot of cases, there is no way of actually doing an on the ground survey - a lot of the boundaries aren't marked, the areas can be massively

[talk-au] National Park Marine Park boundaries

2008-12-17 Thread Matt White
How are people mapping National Park (or state forest or other government mandated areas)? It seems that in a lot of cases, there is no way of actually doing an on the ground survey - a lot of the boundaries aren't marked, the areas can be massively inaccessible etc. Add to that things like

Re: [talk-au] National Park Marine Park boundaries

2008-12-17 Thread Matt White
b.schulz...@scu.edu.au wrote: As it stands this hasn't really been addressed. Generally I just mark what's on the ground, ie the natural=wood boundary as this tends to give a reasonable indication of the national park boundary anyway. Obviously this has limits, but unless some government