Gazetteer of Australia 2006 Release

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Abstract

The Gazetteer provides information on the location and spelling of more than 322 000 geographical names across Australia as at March 2006. 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 and postcode data resides with the relevant state, territory and Australian Government agencies which are custodians of the data. The Gazetteer fields include: <ul> <li>Record ID - unique feature identifier for each feature.</li> <li>Authority ID - custodian state or territory.</li> <li>State ID - state or territory which contains the feature.</li> <li>Name - name of the feature.</li> <li>Feature Code - code indicating the type of feature</li> <li>Status - indicates whether the name is authorised.</li> <li>Variant name - variant or alternative name used for the feature.</li> <li>Postcode - Australia Post Postcode for the feature.</li> <li>Concise Gazetteer - indicates whether the feature is included in the concise gazetteer.</li> <li>Longitude - longitude of the feature in decimal degrees.</li> <li>Latitude - latitude of the feature in decimal degrees.</li> <li>100K map number - 1:100 000 scale map number in which the feature is located.</li> <li>CGDN - indicates whether the place name can be used in the state.au second level domains by community website portals which reflect community interests.</li> </ul> <h3>Product specifications</h3> Coverage: Australia Currency: 2006 Coordinates: Geographical Datum: GDA94 Format: Fixed width ASCII and Microsoft Access Database Medium: CD-ROM Forward Program: Annual revision Please note: Any organisation or individual wanting to use the Gazetteer data in a similar capacity to the Online Place Name Search or any other online application requires an Internet user licence. The licence fee is on the licence and order form and on the Digital Data Licence Fees page. 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 <a href=mailto:gazetteer@ga.gov.au>gazetteer@ga.gov.au</a>, corrections are forwarded to the State and Territories, Name Authorities for clarification. Updates will appear in subsequent revisions of the Gazatteer.

Product Type

dataset

eCat Id

65041

Contact for the resource

Custodian

EGD

Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Cnr Jerrabomberra Ave and Hindmarsh Dr GPO Box 378
Canberra
ACT
2601
Australia

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Thematic DataAdministrative Data

( Theme )

mapping

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)

Earth Sciences

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Publication Date

2006-01-01T00:00:00

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Security Constraints

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Classification - unclassified

Legal Constraints

Gazetter Licence

Access - restricted

Use - license

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Purpose

Maintenance Information

annually

Topic Category

geoscientificInformation

Series Information

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The Gazetteer is compiled annually by the Geospatial and Earth Monitoring Division of Geoscience Australia, on behalf of the Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia (a committee of the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping ICSM). Data is sourced from the relevant State and Territory jurisdictions (ACT, NSW, NT, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC, WA) along with various Australian Government agencies (Australian Antarctic Division, Australia Hydrographic Service, and Geoscience Australia). Postcode data was matched to placename localities using data sourced from Australia Post's Postcode Database and validated using the Australian Bureau of Statistics Postal Areas data.

Parent Information

Extents

[-69.417, -9.13333, 70.0, 170.0]

Reference System

Spatial Resolution

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