Gazetteer of Australia 2012 Release

The Gazetteer provides information on the location and spelling of more than 370,000 geographical names across Australia as at January 2012. The supply of data is coordinated by the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping and derived from State, Territory and Australian Government agencies. Copyright of the Gazetteer data resides with the relevant state, territory and Australian Government agencies which are custodians of the data.


The Gazetteer fields include:

- Record ID - unique feature identifier for each feature.

- Authority ID - custodian state or territory.

- State ID - state or territory which contains the feature.

- Name - name of the feature.

- Feature Code - code indicating the type of feature

- Status - indicates whether the name is authorised.

- Variant name - variant or alternative name used for the feature.

- Postcode - Postcode for the feature.

- Concise Gazetteer - indicates whether the feature is included in the concise gazetteer.

- Longitude - longitude of the feature in decimal degrees.

- Latitude - latitude of the feature in decimal degrees.

- 100K map number - 1:100 000 scale map number in which the feature is located.

- CGDN - indicates whether the place name can be used in the state.au second level domains by community website portals which reflect community interests.


Product specifications:

- Coverage: Australia

- Currency: 2012

- Coordinates: Geographical

- Datum: GDA94

- Format: Microsoft Access Database, KML, GML

- Medium: WEB

- Forward Program: Annual revision


Please note: The custodians of the place name data do not guarantee that the data is free from errors and omissions. If possible errors or omissions in the data are identified, please contact gazetteer@ga.gov.au gazetteer@ga.gov Please note: The custodians of the place name data do not guarantee that the data is free from errors and omissions. If possible errors or omissions in the data are identified, please contact gazetteer@ga.gov.au

Corrections are forwarded to the State and Territories, Name Authorities for clarification. Updates will appear in subsequent revisions of the Gazetteer.

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Identification info

Date (Publication)
2013-01-01T00:00:00
Edition

1

Edition date
2012-01-01T00:00:00
Citation identifier
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Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Author

Geoscience Australia

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Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Custodian

EGD
Owner

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Custodian

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Topic category
  • Location

Extent

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W


Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Website

Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes

Keywords

  • Thematic Data

  • Administrative Data

Theme

  • places

Keywords

  • AU

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)

  • Earth Sciences

Keywords

  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
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https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

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Unclassified
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
OnLine resource

Contains XML, GML, MDB formats plus user guide

Contains XML, GML, MDB formats plus user guide

Distribution format

  • misc

Resource lineage

Statement

Unknown

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Description

Source data not available.

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

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GeoNetwork UUID

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English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Name

dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/76695

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/e19a92fa-257c-159d-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Date info (Revision)
2018-04-22T08:22:46
Date info (Creation)
2013-07-16T00:00:00

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier
https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

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W


Keywords

places

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Access to the portal

Associated resources

Not available