On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 21:16 +1030, Darrin Smith wrote: > Futher to this I was looking back through this thread (thinking maybe > about having a look at the data myself) and I James said: > > It's described as "These boundaries have been based upon localities > gazetted by the Geographic Place name authority current at the time of > the Census." > > So it's always going to be out-of-date anyway and updated every 4 > years, it's not going to change often. But it's a much better start > than what we have now :)
Very good point. I agree now that there's not much point trying to automate updates as the ABS dataset changes - that could be accomplished faster by just manually updating changes as & when gazzetted (so long as someone keeps an eye on each Gazette, but that shouldn't be a problem spread across all the Aussie mappers) [Anyone know what the status is of the copyright (if any) on the Gazette itself?]. I still prefer the idea of areas rather than relations for suburb boundaries in general, for a whole bunch of reasons states earlier (which I won't bore the list with again), but I guess that's just something we'll probably always have differing opinions on... Regards, Jack. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
