The Dept of Lands database was said to be 94% correct in 2007 and improving. Most of their errors relate to the house numbers on a street, and I would assume that their suburb boundaries are correct. This data should take precendence over ABS data.
Regards, Narelle. 2009/3/8 Franc Carter <franc.car...@gmail.com>: > > I wonder if this is because the data is/was off when it was created(2006) or > because the boundaries > have changed? > > On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Ben Kelley <ben.kel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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 and 1/2 a street further south. That is, on the next street >> south, some houses are in my suburb, and some are in the next suburb. >> >> - Ben Kelley. >> >> 2009/3/6 Ben Kelley <ben.kel...@gmail.com> >>> >>> Hi. >>> >>> Any thoughts on how to work out the real boundary when the ABS data >>> disagrees with commonly known boundaries? >>> >>> I don't know why I didn't notice this when I previewed the data, but the >>> ABS data shows the boundary for my suburb going right down the middle of my >>> street (when I believe it to be one street over). This puts my house in the >>> next suburb over. >>> >>> I suspect the ABS data is wrong, but any thoughts on how to find out for >>> sure? >>> >>> Franc - do you have a contact at the ABS who might be interested in >>> corrections? >>> >>> - Ben Kelley. >>> >> > > > > -- > Franc > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > > _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au