[talk-au] Australian Rendering

[Darrin Smith]

John Smith wrote:
>> You can do this I guess it's a matter of rendering. I think
>> this
>> discussion has highlighted an underlying issue that is
>> beyond the
>> rendering issue however. The underlying issue is that you
>> don't consider
>>   administratively equal a "suburb" and a "rural named
>> area" despite the
>> fact that the various state governments and australia post
>> do.
> 
> Australia post doesn't necessarily follow that, Gympie has a number of areas inside the "town limits" but all mail is addressed as Gympie, eg South Side, Corella, Araluen, Monkland, are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Even Australia post has to bend to the perceptions of the locals regardless of what's gazetted, either that or Auspost has a later version of gazetted data than the ABS released.

All but 'South Side' are listed on the Australia post site as valid 
postal areas in postcode 4570 as an equal category to Gympie.

>> Yeah this is a bit of a pain when you get duplicates in
>> particular.
>> Really a renderer specific problem however. I liked the
>> idea that
>> surfaced a while back of optionally being able to specify a
>> 'centre' to
>> a boundary relation which should be where the name is
>> rendered and only
>> rendering it centrally if that is absent. Don't think it's
>> made it into
>> the renders though.
> 
> If one of us can figure it out, we can render it. :)

Yeah well, that I'd be all in favour of seeing done :D

Darrin