[talk-au] navit

[b.schulz.10 at scu.edu.au]

Does the ABS have other boundaries which we can use for this? For example "Sydney" currently would just refer to the "Sydney" LGA, rather than that area which people would call "Greater Sydney".

Basically, do they publish boundaries such as "greater sydney" "the newcastle region" etc?

If they don't then can we get LGA boundaries? That would work for basically smaller than Sydney. For instance the Lismore LGA encompasses Lismore, Goonellabah, Chilcotts Grass...Well, pretty much everything from half-way to Casino up to the Byron Shire.

Otherwise could there be a way for us to define regions such as "Greater Newcastle" or "Gympie and surrounds" by forming larger multipolygon relations from a set of suburb boundaries manually?

I'm just trying to brainstorm a way of achieving what you're describing while still conforming to strict boundary sources as opposed to drawing a boundary around a town by hand.

Brent

> This is also why I was suggesting using admin_level=9 for town 
> boundaries, for towns like gympie that don't match postcode or 
> admin_level=10 boundaries. Then that information can be used to 
> find any street within the Gympie town area, not just the ABS 
> Gympie boundary.
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