[talk-au] ABS [ ODbL data.gov.au permission granted]

[Steve Bennett]

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 8:58 PM, El Segundo Can't win
<el_segundo_cant_win at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> For my two cents, I think the 2011 ABS suburb boundaries would be useful if
> added, for the search function. It's dead right it would be better to be
> searching against them, rather than in the database, but I'm not too sure
> how that would be implemented.

Speaking out of my arse here, but presumably the existing search has
to work from an index anyway, so it would be much simpler to start
from an index (place name with lat/lon) to begin with, rather than
compiling one from all the OSM data. I guess you lose the ability to
do complex queries like "park near Ballarat", but to be honest, I
never do them anyway.

Steve