John Smith wrote: >> You can do this I guess it's a matter of rendering. I think >> this >> discussion has highlighted an underlying issue that is >> beyond the >> rendering issue however. The underlying issue is that you >> don't consider >> administratively equal a "suburb" and a "rural named >> area" despite the >> fact that the various state governments and australia post >> do. > > Australia post doesn't necessarily follow that, Gympie has a number of areas > inside the "town limits" but all mail is addressed as Gympie, eg South Side, > Corella, Araluen, Monkland, are the ones I can think of off the top of my > head. Even Australia post has to bend to the perceptions of the locals > regardless of what's gazetted, either that or Auspost has a later version of > gazetted data than the ABS released.
All but 'South Side' are listed on the Australia post site as valid postal areas in postcode 4570 as an equal category to Gympie. >> Yeah this is a bit of a pain when you get duplicates in >> particular. >> Really a renderer specific problem however. I liked the >> idea that >> surfaced a while back of optionally being able to specify a >> 'centre' to >> a boundary relation which should be where the name is >> rendered and only >> rendering it centrally if that is absent. Don't think it's >> made it into >> the renders though. > > If one of us can figure it out, we can render it. :) Yeah well, that I'd be all in favour of seeing done :D Darrin _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
