Gazetteer of Australia MapServer

The Australian Gazetteer service provides authoritative information on the location, and spelling of approved place names. The Australian Gazetteer is a subset of information held by the relevant State, Territory and Commonwealth naming authorities. Additional authoritative information has also been sourced from the Australian Hydrographic Service, Australian Antarctic Division and Geoscience Australia.

Simple

Identification info

Date (Creation)
2016-11-01T00:00:00
Date (Publication)
2017-12-07T23:52:11
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/service/ga/102640

Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Custodian

Butrovski, D.

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Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

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W


Maintenance and update frequency
Annually
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification: Fields of Research

  • Earth Sciences

Keywords

  • Place name

Keywords

  • Location

Keywords

  • Gazetteer

Keywords

  • Australia

Keywords

  • Nomenclature

Keywords

  • web service

Service

  • MapServer

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
Website

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

Classification
Unclassified
Service Version

10.6

Coupling Type
Tight

Contains Operations

Operation Name

Services Directory

Distributed computing platform (DCP)
WebServices
Operation Description

The Services Directory operation is used to provide a view of the ArcGIS Server REST API in HTML format, providing service-level metadata about the current web service.

Connect Point

http://services.ga.gov.au/gis/rest/services/Australian_Gazetteer/MapServer

Contains Operations

Operation Name

REST API Information

Distributed computing platform (DCP)
WebServices
Operation Description

The REST API Information operation is used to obtain service metadata in JSON format, which is a machinereadable description of the ArcGIS Server information content.

Connect Point

http://services.ga.gov.au/gis/rest/services/Australian_Gazetteer/MapServer?f=pjson

Name

f

Type name

TEXT

Parameter direction
Description

The mandatory f parameter indicates the format of the response. When invoking the REST API Information operation the value json or pjson shall be used.

Optionality
false
Repeatability
false
Operates On

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Geoscience Australia

 Voice
OnLine resource

Gazetteer of Australia MapServer

Gazetteer of Australia MapServer

Distribution format

  • ESRI:ArcGIS:MapServer

Resource lineage

Statement

The Australian Gazetteer provides map-makers and the public with authoritative information on the location and spelling of approved place names. The place names in this Gazetteer are a subset of the complete information sets held by each of the relevant agencies. For example, the full dataset held by the Geographical Names Board of NSW contains information on the history of a name and its derivation.

Hierarchy level
Service

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/GDA94 (EPSG:4283)

Title

European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) Geodetic Parameter Registry

Date (Publication)
2008-11-12T00:00:00
Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details

European Petroleum Survey Group

 http://www.epsg-registry.org/

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

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/337fdb1e-57c2-4cbf-b963-189fe24dcd92

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Custodian

Butrovski, D.

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Carter, J.L.

Type of resource

Resource scope
Service
Name

service

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/102640

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/337fdb1e-57c2-4cbf-b963-189fe24dcd92

Date info (Creation)
2016-02-10T09:49:39
Date info (Revision)
2018-04-20T05:50:53

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

 
 

Overviews

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Spatial extent

N
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E
W


Keywords

Australia Gazetteer Location MapServer Nomenclature Place name web service
Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification: Fields of Research
Earth Sciences

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Associated resources

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