[talk-au] Suburb boundaries

John Smith deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 22 10:31:11 GMT 2009


While adding postcodes it looks like some people have incorrectly
joined boundaries together, to make a single way for a stream/road
etc, this has broken suburb boundaries in various areas.

I emailed Franc the other day for a copy of osm files converted from
the original shape file, but in the mean time I added a custom mapnik
style sheet to display suburb boundaries, similar to the style sheet
that displays postcode boundaries...

http://maps.bigtincan.com/?layer=000B000000FF

After making that, it looks worst than I first feared, with most of
the NT missing in action, and large areas of other states missing too,
not sure if this is just a config issue with the style sheet and/or
boundaries slightly tagged wrong or someone screwing up the
boundaries.

I know some care about these so I hope to have OSM files up soon for
them similar to the postcode files so that we can fix things up.

After that it might be wise to figure out some strategy to monitor
changes to admin boundaries to limit the effect of mistakes in future.




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