[talk-au] List of potential datasources

[James Livingston]

On 13/08/2009, at 11:18 PM, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote:
> If anybody knows any federal government datasources that would be
> useful, the Government 2.0 taskforce is looking for data sources that
> the community would find useful but currently aren't available for
> technical reasons [1]. This will form part of a series of contests to
> encourage innovation. I already suggested the Postcode boundaries
> being released with a more open licence, although it's hard to tell if
> that's due to technical reasons or a risk adverse culture.


I've got a couple that I think would be interesting, but I don't know  
if anyone has talked to these departments yet.

http://www.toiletmap.gov.au/
Over 16k toilet POIs

http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/
Great Barrier Reef marine park boundaries and reef features. Their  
spatial data is free for non-commercial/educational use, but they  
change for commercial use.

The various Parks departments, for the boundaries of National Parks,  
State Forests and so on. I've seen some of them show up around the  
place, but not everywhere. For example I don't think any are tagged in  
Tassie apart from the trivial case I added of the Maria Island  
National Park being Maria Island.