Good point Andrew. Here's the link in case others were interested https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/suburb-boundaries. It's CC BY 4.0 licensed and we do have the waiver completed so are free to use (just need to ensure we add the attribution to the wiki).
While it's a good approximation, it's not exact postcode boundaries, but good enough is better than nothing. On 4 June 2018 at 19:17, Andrew Davidson <thesw...@gmail.com> wrote: > The SA suburbs dataset has post codes in it. However it would appear that > this was not included in the early import: > > http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/zir > > On 04/06/18 17:03, Alex Sims wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I’m getting increasingly frustrated with how my GPS (OpenStreetMap on >> Garmin via mkgmap) and the OpenStreetMap Nominatim handle postcodes in >> South Australia with a lot of defaulting to 5000 (Adelaide CBD) >> >> I am assuming that a given suburb or locality maps to a single postcode >> (excluding institution’s which I don’t think we care about) but that a >> postcode my map to more than one suburb or locality >> >> Given that I can see two ways of doing this (manual editing): >> >> 1. Find a sign, say outside a post office in a suburb/locality and use >> that value for that suburb/locality >> 2. Use the ABS definitions as a guide >> >> Any comments as to things I’ve not thought of with regards to >> licensing/accuracy? >> >> Alex >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-au mailing list >> Talk-au@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >
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