Product catalogue
Gazetteer of Australia 2010 Release
The Gazetteer provides information on the location and spelling of more than 332 000 geographical names across Australia as at January 2011. 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 resides with the relevant state, territory and Australian Government agencies which are custodians of the data.
The Gazetteer fields include:
- Record ID - unique feature identifier for each feature.
- Authority ID - custodian state or territory.
- State ID - state or territory which contains the feature.
- Name - name of the feature.
- Feature Code - code indicating the type of feature
- Status - indicates whether the name is authorised.
- Variant name - variant or alternative name used for the feature.
- Postcode - Postcode for the feature.
- Concise Gazetteer - indicates whether the feature is included in the concise gazetteer.
- Longitude - longitude of the feature in decimal degrees.
- Latitude - latitude of the feature in decimal degrees.
- 100K map number - 1:100 000 scale map number in which the feature is located.
- CGDN - indicates whether the place name can be used in the state.au second level domains by community website portals which
reflect community interests.
Product specifications:
- Coverage: Australia
- Currency: 2010
- Coordinates: Geographical
- Datum: GDA94
- Format: Fixed width ASCII and Microsoft Access Database
- Medium: WEB
- Forward Program: Annual revision
Please note: 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. gazetteer@ga.gov .au>gazetteer@ga.gov Please note: 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.
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-01-01T00:00:00
- Edition
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1
- Edition date
- 2010-01-01T00:00:00
- Citation identifier
- Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/71110
- Cited responsible party
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Author Geoscience Australia
1
- Point of contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Custodian EGD
Owner Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Custodian Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
Extent
))
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
Resource format
- Title
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Product data repository: Various Formats
- Website
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Data Store directory containing the digital product files
Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes
- Keywords
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Thematic Data
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Administrative Data
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- Theme
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administrative boundaries
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- Theme
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National dataset
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- Theme
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web feature service
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- Theme
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WFS
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- Keywords
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AU
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- Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)
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Earth Sciences
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- Keywords
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Published_External
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Resource constraints
- Title
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
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CC-BY
- Edition
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4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- License
Resource constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distributor contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Distributor Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice
- OnLine resource
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File download
User Guide
- Distribution format
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pdf
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- OnLine resource
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File download
Download the file (ascii)
- OnLine resource
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File download
Download the file (mdb)
Resource lineage
- Statement
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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).
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Description
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Source data not available.
Metadata constraints
- Title
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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem
- Edition date
- 2018-11-01T00:00:00
- Classification
- Unclassified
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/a05f7892-f9c2-7506-e044-00144fdd4fa6
- Title
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GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Point of contact Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Voice
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Name
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dataset
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with
uuid
- Citation identifier
- eCatId/71110
- Date info (Revision)
- 2018-04-20T06:16:35
- Date info (Creation)
- 2010-10-05T00:00:00
Metadata standard
- Title
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AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115-1:2014
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115-3
- Title
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Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014
- Edition
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Version 2.0, September 2018
- Citation identifier
- https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551