Re: [talk-au] Boundary questions.

2009-03-04 Thread Franc Carter
Agreed, it's not as simple as I was hoping ;-( cheers On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Ross Scanlon wrote: > > In some areas the ABS data does not line up with the existing coastline > > which has come from yahoo or landsat., e.g > > > > * Yowie Bay in sydney which I assume comes from Yahoo >

Re: [talk-au] Boundary questions.

2009-03-04 Thread Franc Carter
thinking about it now, I may have had brain fade - the bit I was looking could have been the Torres Islands - Whitsundays seems like ti should have good yahoo. I'll check tonight and correct myself. On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Ross Scanlon wrote: > > In some areas the ABS data does not lin

Re: [talk-au] Boundary questions.

2009-03-04 Thread Ross Scanlon
> In some areas the ABS data does not line up with the existing coastline > which has come from yahoo or landsat., e.g > > * Yowie Bay in sydney which I assume comes from Yahoo > * The Whitsunday islands that I assume comes from landsat > > Once the upload is done I am inclined align the the ex

Re: [talk-au] Boundary questions.

2009-03-04 Thread Franc Carter
While we are thinking about alignment etc, I have found another case we should consider. In some areas the ABS data does not line up with the existing coastline which has come from yahoo or landsat., e.g * Yowie Bay in sydney which I assume comes from Yahoo * The Whitsunday islands that I ass

Re: [talk-au] Boundary questions.

2009-03-04 Thread Darrin Smith
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 23:17:57 +1100 Nick Hocking wrote: > I'd hazard a guess that most urban suburbs will have their boundaries > running down the centre of a street but a lot of rural ones will have > them on one side of a road, river or train track. With roads in the > country areas, it would ma

[talk-au] Boundary questions.

2009-03-04 Thread Nick Hocking
Darrin said. "I think in most cases I've seen around the place in other sources the vast majority of boundaries run down the centre of features, and that running down one side of the other appears to be the edge case. Besides except in the case where addressing for a street is all in one suburb it

Re: [talk-au] Boundary questions.

2009-03-04 Thread Darrin Smith
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 22:09:59 +1100 Nick Hocking wrote: > 2) If a suburb follows a road or river should part of the boundary way > be deleted and replaced with that part of the road or river. And Franc Said: > This is a good question - one other thing to throw in the mix is > the relative accurac

Re: [talk-au] Boundary questions.

2009-03-04 Thread Franc Carter
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Nick Hocking wrote: > I apologise if these have been discussed before. > > Once the import is complete and we can start validation/fine tuning.. > > 1) If two suburbs are next to each other, should they share a boundary way > or have superimposed ways. Als

[talk-au] Boundary questions.

2009-03-04 Thread Nick Hocking
I apologise if these have been discussed before. Once the import is complete and we can start validation/fine tuning.. 1) If two suburbs are next to each other, should they share a boundary way or have superimposed ways. Also suburb next to , state boundaries. 2) If a suburb follows a r