On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 21:12:31 +1030 Darrin Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 20:53:01 +1030 > Cameron <[email protected]> wrote: > > > How much do suburbs change anyway? Perhaps any changes could simply > > be introduced manually. > > ~Cameron > > Yeah I did think that might be an easier solution, I was addressing > automatic updates because jackb brought them up :) And as soon as we > modify them in any way (align with road for example) I think it > probably comes out the more appealing however we put it in initially. > > I know for example the SA Gazette tends to provide information about > suburb boundary changes, probably before they make into the ABS > structures. I imagine the other states have similar channels. > 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 So it's always going to be out-of-date anyway and updated every 4 years, it's not going to change often.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 :) -- =b _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
