[talk-au] suburb boundaries import

b.schulz.10 at scu.edu.au b.schulz.10 at scu.edu.au
Sat Mar 7 22:17:01 GMT 2009


Hi Ben,

This raises an interesting copyright question. If, from multiple sources (Dept of Lands, UBD, ask the council/auspost etc) you can show that the ABS boundary is wrong how do we legally correct it? Without a sign on the ground that states the change of suburb we don't really have another "free" source of this data.

I wonder what the legality is of reading lots of sources then just plonking source=knowledge in there.

Brent
(Biogenesis_)

----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Kelley <ben.kelley at gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, March 8, 2009 8:48 am
Subject: Re: [talk-au] suburb boundaries import
To: OSM Australian Talk List <talk-au at openstreetmap.org>, Franc Carter <franc.carter at gmail.com>

> Hi.
> 
> For NSW the Lands Department's "Geospatial Portal"
> http://gsp.maps.nsw.gov.au/ can show suburb boundaries in the 
> cadastrallayer.
> 
> Of the area in question, where the ABS shows the boundary going 
> neatly down
> the middle of my street, the NSW Lands Department shows the 
> boundary between
> 1 street and 1/2 a street further south. That is, on the next 
> street south,
> some houses are in my suburb, and some are in the next suburb.
> 
>  - Ben Kelley.
> 
> 2009/3/6 Ben Kelley <ben.kelley at gmail.com>
> 
> > Hi.
> >
> > Any thoughts on how to work out the real boundary when the ABS data
> > disagrees with commonly known boundaries?
> >
> > I don't know why I didn't notice this when I previewed the 
> data, but the
> > ABS data shows the boundary for my suburb going right down the 
> middle of my
> > street (when I believe it to be one street over). This puts my 
> house in the
> > next suburb over.
> >
> > I suspect the ABS data is wrong, but any thoughts on how to 
> find out for
> > sure?
> >
> > Franc - do you have a contact at the ABS who might be 
> interested in
> > corrections?
> >
> >  - Ben Kelley.
> >
> >
> 
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