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

[Warin]

Those individuals who are concerned should lobby the government NOW. Not 
wait for the licence to be declared, nor any requirements made.

On 7/12/2015 1:50 PM, Daniel O'Connor 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
>
> 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

The web link in the above ref  (http://data.australia.gov.au) is no 
longer valid ...
>
> 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

At the moment if looks like you have to subscribe and then they send you 
out the data.
>
> 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)
>
Contains Australia Post boundaries for post codes. Might be used for 
suburban name boundaries?