Re: [talk-au] Street Lamps

2021-06-18 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Sat, 19 Jun 2021 at 11:08, Andrew Munday wrote: > Sorry again for not really knowing what I'm doing with the mailing list > thing. I hope this doesn't start a new thread. > Don't worry, Andrew! We've all had an oops moment :-) To keep everything together, find the post that you want to

[talk-au] OSGeo Oceania tree planting and mapping day

2021-06-18 Thread forster
Hi Victorians OSGeo Oceania tree planting and mapping day is coming up on 17-Jul-2021. It was canceled in 2020 because of Covid19 FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2019 conference chose to do an environmental planting in lieu of purchasing carbon offsets for the 2019 NZ conference. More background at

Re: [talk-au] The Paradox of Postcodes (Was Re: Victorian Vicmap Address Import Proposal - Suburb and Postcode discussion)

2021-06-18 Thread forster
Quoting "Sebastian S." : "Me is wondering how I would get notified if my postcode would change? By Australia Post? By ABS?" Hi When my postcode changed from Narre Warren East 3782 to Belgrave South 3160, I was notified by Australia Post. (But amusingly: they then realised that the roads

Re: [talk-au] The Paradox of Postcodes (Was Re: Victorian Vicmap Address Import Proposal - Suburb and Postcode discussion)

2021-06-18 Thread Sebastian S.
Me is wondering how I would get notified if my postcode would change? By Australia Post? By ABS? On 19 June 2021 9:48:56 am AEST, Ewen Hill wrote: >Hi all, >We have been using the ABS 2016 postcode boundaries under intense >scrutiny compared to the "current" Auspost and found very few

Re: [talk-au] The Paradox of Postcodes (Was Re: Victorian Vicmap Address Import Proposal - Suburb and Postcode discussion)

2021-06-18 Thread Sebastian S.
Lots to read here. My take away is Postcodes are not from Australia Post and a proprietary system. Postcodes are not great for areas, it might work but can also be complex. (I'm thinking sprinkled houses in a rough terrain making the relation consists of several areas that are not officially

Re: [talk-au] The Paradox of Postcodes (Was Re: Victorian Vicmap Address Import Proposal - Suburb and Postcode discussion)

2021-06-18 Thread stevea
On Jun 17, 2021, at 2:14 AM, Andrew Harvey via Talk-au wrote: >> It's a fair point that Vicmap's own postcode field shouldn't be taken as >> 100% correct, it looks like it might have been assigned based on postcode >> boundaries so might still suffer issues because of this, but where >>