[talk-au] Suburb boundaries

[Ben Kelley]

Hi.

No I haven't found a good source of boundaries. The cadastral layer
for the NSW Lands Department "geospatial portal" probably has them,
but I'm not sure of the licensing issues.

 - Ben.

On 1/12/09, Franc Carter <franc.carter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> have you managed to find a good source of boundaries for NSW ?
>
> cheers
>
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Ben Kelley <ben.kelley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> Does anyone have any thoughts on how to mark suburb boundaries (in areas
>> that have them)?
>>
>> The closest thing I can find is boundary=administrative at
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:boundary but I haven't seen this
>> used anywhere. London uses this to mark boroughs (equivalent to council
>> areas) with left:district=name and right:district=name to indicate the
>> names
>> on either side of the way.
>>
>> The above page seems to indicate that admin_level=10 shows a suburb border
>> in Australia. Has anyone used this tag? How do you show the suburb names?
>> Are there any examples of how this renders?
>>
>>  - Ben Kelley.
>>
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>
>
> --
> Franc
>


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