[talk-au] suburb boundaries import

[Cameron]

Ask the people who live in the houses.
~Cameron

2009/3/8 <b.schulz.10 at scu.edu.au>

> 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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