[talk-au] Residential/commercial property boundaries

[Daniel O'Connor]

> What a shame. It seems that in lieu of having any buildings marked out,
using property borders would have been a useful way to indicate addresses

In general its a huge rabbit hole to get stuck down if using cadastre/data
where government works in the torrens title first, addresses second
approach.
There is an idea of a 'real property description' in common use in the
property/finance industry,  based on joining the human readable address to
a collection of lot/plan references owned by a person.
One is a location label system (addresses as labels), one is a legal
concept,  and partly related to the physical representation of it as a
spatial boundary.

What becomes a huge pain is when those three concepts don't all fit
perfectly - a fence built a metre too far 10 years ago resulting in a judge
getting involved throws it all out of whack, or when a property is going to
be subdivided (house knocked down,  proposal made to council but not
final,  even if there is a new fence up), or even worse a multiple parcel
property under the same ownership worth multiple addresses - think larger
farms for example.

80% of the time its fine,  the rest is a mess of edge cases based on a
system designed around paper meeting GIS; and people using aliases,
nicknames,  vanity suburbs and more when labeling where things are.
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