[talk-au] Bulk loading all the Australian Statistical Geography Standard into the OSM - a query from the Australian Bureau of Statistics [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Marcus Blake
marcus.blake at abs.gov.au
Wed Feb 23 01:01:50 GMT 2011
To the Australian OSM community,
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has recent published the first part of
a new statistical geography, the Australia Statistical Geography Standard
or ASGS for short. The boundaries are based on a new basic spatial unit
called a mesh block which have been aggregated to create efficient spatial
units for the dissemination and analysis of statistical data. They have
been released in advanced of the 2011 Australian census and are fixed for
the next 5 years. The attached links and PDF file provide additional
information.
The ABS Geography section is presently investigating the possibility of
loaded the new Australian Statistical Geography Standard into the OSM
database.
As a starting point, I'd like to start a discussion about how this could
be achieved, if it is possible at all.
>From the ABS point of view the principle reason for doing this is that an
the OSM database would hold a copy of the official version of the
boundaries and that this point of truth would be available for all OSM
users and downstream distributors. It would therefore become one of the
channels by which the ABS distributes the ASGS boundaries and associated
coding structures
There are three main issues I can see need addressing (and probably a
large number of other issues I'm not yet aware of )
1. Is the OSM database a suitable location for the ASGS
The ABS would like to facilitate the use of the new ASGS as much as
possible and the OSM database looks to be an efficient mechanism for the
distribution of the spatial boundaries and codes. But what does the
community think??...
2. Licensing
Even though ABS data (including all spatial data) is released under a CC
license it does require attribution (Attribution 2.5 Australia CC BY 2.5).
How is this license model handled under OSM. Is there a means to
associated attribution with particular "layers" within the OSM database?
3. The practicality's of loading load.
I note previous posts on loading the ABS Postal Areas and the technical
problems involved. What is the most efficient and best way of load a
categorising these data within the database? Our preference would be to
bulk upload through an FME process. Perhaps this is a question for the
imports list?
Any Questions for the ABS?
Lastly if there are any questions people have on the new ASGS (and the
old ASGC) or anything on the definition or application of statistical
boundaries I am happy to answer specific queries and contribute to
discussions.
cheers,
Marcus.
Marcus Blake
Marcus.Blake at abs.gov.au
Assistant Director
Geography Section
Australian Bureau of Statistics
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Additional Information
2911.0.55.003 - Census of Population and Housing: Outcomes from the 2011
Census Output Geography Discussion Paper, 2011
This publication a good diagram of the ASGS
http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/ProductsbyReleaseDate/DB85CD1D52DE042DCA25783E000E0AF8?OpenDocument
ABS License details: CC Attribution 2.5 Australia
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/deed.en
The first volume of the ASGS.
This includes all the electronic boundaries in MID/MIF and Shape formats
Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS): Volume 1 - Main
Structure and Greater Capital City Statistical Areas, July 2011 (cat no.
1270.0.55.001)
The ABS Geography website
http://www.abs.gov.au/Geography
Geography Frequently Asked Questions
http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/home/Frequently+Asked+Questions
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Free publications and statistics available on www.abs.gov.au
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