[talk-au] GNAF (address) data to be released under open license

[Alex Sims]

Great news,

but we have to wait till February 2016 …

Now, which data set is next on our wishlist?

Alex

> On 7 Dec 2015, at 1:20 PM, Daniel O'Connor <daniel.oconnor at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> Many of you may be interested in 
> https://blog.data.gov.au/news-media/blog/geocoded-national-address-data-be-made-openly-available <https://blog.data.gov.au/news-media/blog/geocoded-national-address-data-be-made-openly-available>
> 
> Provided the license is CC-BY-3.0 or better; we already have explicit permission to use said data:
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution/data.gov.au_explicit_permission <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution/data.gov.au_explicit_permission>
> 
> For those of you interested in what specific data this is, I'd encourage you to have a read of:
> https://www.psma.com.au/sites/default/files/g-naf_product_description.pdf <https://www.psma.com.au/sites/default/files/g-naf_product_description.pdf>
> 
> Of interest to us:
>  * Address points with geocoding and full structured address information
>  * Authoritive street names for a given suburb, with geocoding (points though, not polylines)
>  * Authoritative suburb/locality points, geocoded - likely of better accuracy than ABS "Statistic Suburb" data.
>  * Data refreshed quarterly; sourced from local and state government (so emailing your council to submit a data correction from survey is plausible)

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