On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 2:48 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Sorry for the late reply, I seemed to have missed/overlooked this... > > On 12 October 2010 07:39, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Anyone know where Melway gets that info from, and if we can get it > > too? Or do we just manually merge all these boundaries into the suburb > > of the same name? Ultimately, we want suburb names, not statistical > > divisions, surely... > > +1 > > Most people most of the time don't tend to care to much for/about the > ABS boundaries, I was doing a fair bit of work importing postcodes > previously, however it might be better to trash most of the ABS data > and import a new set when it comes out, obviously this would need to > be done very carefully so as not to remove any useful information > people may have added since. > I tend to agree - and I'm the one who imported the ABS sets ;-) In the absence of better data they still provide a much better idea than guessing a radius around a point, we just need to make sure that we are clear that they are best guesstimates for the moment. I think you are right about a re-import, we have learnt a bunch of things since the first import which will hopefully make a fresh one better. I can think of ways around most of the issues with a delete/rebuild - one issue that doesn't jump out with a solution is how to minimise the amount of time that no data exists and hence we have gone backwards a bit. cheers > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > -- Franc
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