On 15/08/12 06:01, Michael Krämer wrote: > Hi, > > first of all a quick introduction: I'm one of those armchair mappers > trying to assist in cleaning up the mess after the redation bot. > > When doing so I've noticed that most of the state and territory borders > are gone. I could already reconstruct the straight parts from remaining > segments and nodes. But the non-straight parts are still missing, so > there isn't much left of ACT at the moment, for example. > > Looking for a source for these I came across the data from the > Australian Bureau of Statistics which are ODbL-compliant according to > [1]. Available is are shapefiles for the electoral boundaries [2] and to > my understanding these had previously been used for the state boundaries. > > So I would suggest to import the missing parts of the boundaries from > these datasets again. This wouldn't be an automatic import but include > manually combining the data with what's already there. > > Any thoughts?
> [2] > http://data.gov.au/dataset/commonwealth-electoral-boundaries-archive-2009/ No comment on the import, but I wouldn't use the Electoral boundaries to derive any kind of state boundary. Also since data.gov.au just pulls the data from the various different government agencies, I would suggest getting it straight from the source. http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/1270.0.55.001July%202011?OpenDocument You would want the last one listed: State (S/T) ASGS Ed 2011 Digital Boundaries in ESRI Shapefile Format. Note the copyright for this http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf/Home/%C2%A9+Copyright?opendocument#from-banner=GB Various other different admin levels are also at http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/1270.0.55.003July 2011?OpenDocument Beware though, that these are not the official state boundaries, or other admin boundaries. They only represent an ABS approximation of the official boundary with the aim of generating statistics on these areas. For most purposes they are good enough representation of the actual boundary for us, especially in lure of a better source, and without any on the ground mapping. I hope this has provided some insight.
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