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Abstract
The Gazetteer provides information on the location and spelling of 323,471 geographical names (plus 33,061 variants) covering all of Australia and its offshore regions, as at June 2007. 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 who are custodians of the data. The Gazetteer fields include: <ul> <li>Record ID - unique identifier for each feature. </li> <li>Authority ID - custodian state or territory.</li> <li>State ID - state or territory where the feature is located. </li> <li>Place ID - unique record number for all records in the database.</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 <em>state.au</em> (e.g. nsw.au, act.au) second level domains by community website portals which reflect community interests. </li> </ul> 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, will require an Internet user licence. (See the Licence Fees and Order Form below). The custodians of the place name data do not guarantee that the data is free from errors and omissions. If errors or omissions in the data are identified, please contact <A href=mailto:gazetteer@ga.gov.au>gazetteer@ga.gov.au</A>. Corrections will be forwarded to the State and Territories, Name Authorities for clarification and updates will appear in subsequent revisions of the Gazetteer. Product Specifications Coverage: Australia Currency: 2007 Coordinates: Geographical Datum: GDA94 Format: Fixed width ASCII and Microsoft Access Database Medium: CD-ROM Forward Program: Bi-annual revision
Product Type
dataset
eCat Id
65589
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
2008-01-01T00:00:00
Creation Date
Security Constraints
Legal Constraints
Gazetter Licence
Access - restricted
Use - license
Status
Purpose
Maintenance Information
asNeeded
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 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
Service Information
Associations
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