[talk-au] Australia Postcodes - using AusPost database

[Darren Burt]

That looks better to me for the streets I'm familiar with. Eg if you 
search for Gloucester Ave 
<http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-33.766784&lon=151.124839&zoom=18> 
(which is down southerly end) at OSM, it shows as Macquarie Park 2113 in 
the search results. On your map it shows as 2073 which is correct.

Of course I can't really be sure of the boundaries .... :-\

I still seem to be stuck. Everything I've seen so far has 
'non-commercial' or 'personal use only' or 'not relicensed/sub-licensed' 
terms which make it incompatible with OSM license.

I even went looking at Development Applications. Using the Advanced 
Search here <http://datracking.kmc.nsw.gov.au>, you can search for 
street name Gloucester Avenue, select any of the applications, then look 
at one of the documents, eg a Development Application or Determination 
and that will list the address and postcode. That's manual and 
laborious, but I could at least fix up my own backyard, so to speak. But 
it's still not clear to me that I can actually use that information for 
that purpose, and I am loathe to taint the OSM data.

On 21/12/12 20:29, Andrew Harvey wrote:
> On 21/12/12 02:08, Darren Burt wrote:
>> Hi again
>>
>> I've been mapping around the West Pymble area and noticed that the
>> postcode was wrong. Looking around some of the streets, they were
>> associated with Macquarie Park which is the other side of Lane Cove
>> River! In short, there are serious and obvious errors.
> I have the ABS ASGS 2011 Post Code boundary approximations at
> http://tianjara.net/map (then tick on ASGS 2011 - POA and hover over the
> regions). Would you care to check if that is accurate or not?
>
> I'm not sure if that is the ABS ASGS 2011 Post Code boundary (even if I
> didn't think CC-BY was compatible for OSM), or if it is the older 2006
> boundary, or an independently surveyed boundary in OSM.
>

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