[talk-au] Australian Rendering

[John Smith]

--- On Sun, 2/8/09, Darrin Smith <beldin at beldin.org> wrote:

> In 95% of cases they're close enough, are you going to
> throw out the baby with the bath water and dispose of the
> cases where people have adjusted them to be correct? Even in
> the places where they aren't they're the closest we're going
> to get for a long time.

What about the 90% of Australia that isn't metro areas and these boundaries are all over the place and don't line up with towns, they're usually smaller or larger depending if the town grew, they also appear all over the place in rural areas where there is no town.

It's the last point that I found them just noise they don't provide any meaningful information in rural areas, other than being boundaries for the ABS.

I realise there is a need to show town and suburb boundaries. One way would be to elevate them to admin_level=9, another would be to alter the boundaries in rural areas to a lower admin_level. Either way the amount of work needed would be about the same.