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Abstract
<p>This version of the Gazetteer of Australia provides information on the location and spelling of 315 550 geographical names across Australia and its offshore Territories as of November 2004. Supply of the data is coordinated through the Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia (a sub-committee of the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM) and derived from state, territory, and commonwealth authorities responsible for place naming. </p> <p>The data is also available through a Microsoft Access database in addition to the traditional ASCII text files. The fields within the Gazetteer data include:</p> <ul> <li>Record ID</li> <li>Authority ID</li> <li>Name</li> <li>Feature Code</li> <li>Status</li> <li>Variant Name</li> <li>Postcode</li> <li>Concise Gazetteer</li> <li>Longitude</li> <li>Latitude</li> <li>100K Map</li> <li>auDA Allocated</li> </ul> <h3>Product specifications</h3> <p><strong>Coverage:</strong> Australia<br /> <strong>Currency:</strong> 2005<br /> <strong>Coordinates:</strong> Geographical<br /> <strong>Datum:</strong> GDA94<br /> <strong>Format:</strong> Fixed width ASCII and Microsoft Access Database<br /> <strong>Medium:</strong> CD-ROM<br /> <strong>Forward Program:</strong> Annual revision</p> <p> <strong>Please note:</strong> 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 Gazetteer. </p>
Product Type
dataset
eCat Id
63450
Contact for the resource
Custodian
Point of contact
Cnr Jerrabomberra Ave and Hindmarsh Dr GPO Box 378
Canberra
ACT
2601
Australia
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- Thematic DataAdministrative Data
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- culture
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- AU
- Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)
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- Earth Sciences
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- Published_Internal
Publication Date
2005-01-01T00:00:00
Creation Date
Security Constraints
Legal Constraints
Gazetter Licence
Access - restricted
Use - license
Status
Purpose
Maintenance Information
annually
Topic Category
geoscientificInformation
Series Information
Lineage
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.
Parent Information
Extents
[-69.417, -9.13333, 70.0, 170.0]
Reference System
Spatial Resolution
Service Information
Associations
Source Information
Source data not available.