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 another "free" source of this data.
I wonder what the legality is of reading lots of sources then just plonking source=knowledge in there. Brent (Biogenesis_) ----- Original Message ----- From: Ben Kelley <ben.kel...@gmail.com> Date: Sunday, March 8, 2009 8:48 am Subject: Re: [talk-au] suburb boundaries import To: OSM Australian Talk List <talk-au@openstreetmap.org>, Franc Carter <franc.car...@gmail.com> > Hi. > > For NSW the Lands Department's "Geospatial Portal" > http://gsp.maps.nsw.gov.au/ can show suburb boundaries in the > cadastrallayer. > > 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. > > > > >
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