On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 2:48 AM, John Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com">deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Sorry for the late reply, I seemed to have missed/overlooked this...<br>
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On 12 October 2010 07:39, Steve Bennett <<a href="mailto:stevagewp@gmail.com">stevagewp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Anyone know where Melway gets that info from, and if we can get it<br>
> too? Or do we just manually merge all these boundaries into the suburb<br>
> of the same name? Ultimately, we want suburb names, not statistical<br>
> divisions, surely...<br>
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+1<br>
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Most people most of the time don't tend to care to much for/about the<br>
ABS boundaries, I was doing a fair bit of work importing postcodes<br>
previously, however it might be better to trash most of the ABS data<br>
and import a new set when it comes out, obviously this would need to<br>
be done very carefully so as not to remove any useful information<br>
people may have added since.<br></blockquote><div><br>I tend to agree - and I'm the one who imported the ABS sets ;-)<br><br>In the absence of better data they still provide a much better idea than guessing a radius around a point, we just need to make sure that we are clear that they are best guesstimates for the moment.<br>
<br>I think you are right about a re-import, we have learnt a bunch of things since the first import which will hopefully make a fresh one better. I can think of ways around most of the issues with a delete/rebuild - one issue that doesn't jump out with a solution is how to minimise the amount of time that no data exists and hence we have gone backwards a bit.<br>
<br>cheers<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Franc<br>