Gazetteer of Australia 2004 release  

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<p>The Gazetteer of Australia provides information on the location and spelling of 310 217 geographical names across Australia and its offshore territories as of October 2003. Supply of the data is coordinated through the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM) and derived from state, tterritory and commonwealth authorities responsible for place naming.</p> <p>The 2004 release includes two new fields that indicate the conditions on use of Australian place names within Internet second level domain structures such as <em>.com, .net,</em> and <em>.state.au</em> (e.g. .nsw.au). The data is also available through a Microsoft Access database in addition to the traditional ASCII text files. This aims to provides users with a search interface to the data as well as the data in a database format.</p> <p>The fields within the Gazetteer data include:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Record ID</strong></li> <li><strong>Authority ID</strong></li> <li><strong>Name</strong></li> <li><strong>Feature Code</strong></li> <li><strong>Status</strong></li> <li><strong>Variant Name</strong></li> <li><strong>Postcode</strong></li> <li><strong>Concise Gazetteer</strong></li> <li><strong>Longitude</strong></li> <li><strong>Latitude</strong></li> <li><strong>100K Map</strong></li> <li><strong>auDA Reserved (new)</strong></li> <li><strong>auDA Allocated (new)</strong></li> </ul> <h3>Product specifications</h3> <p><strong>Coverage:</strong> Australia<br /> <strong>Currency:</strong> 2004<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 Gazatteer. </p>

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61075

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• Thematic DataAdministrative Data

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• mapping

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• topography

• AU

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)

• Earth Sciences

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2004-01-01T00:00:00

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence    

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annually

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geoscientificInformation

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The Gazetteer is compiled annually using data provided by each of the State and Territory naming authorities, the Australian Hydrographic Service and Geoscience Australia. Postcodes were matched to Gazetteer localities using Australia Post's Postcode Database.

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[-69.417, -9.133, 70.0, 170.0]

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Spatial Resolution

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