[talk-au] "place" areas or nodes?
Franc Carter
franc.carter at gmail.com
Wed Aug 15 12:17:56 BST 2007
On 8/15/07, James Andrewartha <trs80 at tartarus.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Franc Carter wrote:
>
> > One use for areas is if you have the boundaries for a suburb, state etc
> > I have permission to deriver the boundaries for several sydney suburbs
> > from the 'Geographical Names Board' official maps - which means I can
> > add in fairly precise boundaries for those suburbs.
>
> I was just thinking about this, and having the boundaries between suburbs
> marked would be a good idea IMHO. The question then becomes a) will
> working out the area from its boundaries be acceptable?
I believe so, in the case of the suburbs then this how the 'government'
actually
defines them
and b) are there
> any other areas that are worthwhile marking out?
Probably - getting hold of the data is the major problem I see
James Andrewartha
>
>
--
Franc
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