Australia Post Postcode Boundaries  

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Abstract

Contains the Australia Post Postcode boundaries, numbers and centroids plus postal facilities locations and sorting division boundaries for all Australia. Three levels of boundary detail are available from highly detailed to highly generalised as follows: - OPTIMAL - the as-digitised Postcode boundaries have been filtered to remove what are essentially coincident points. The Optimal Postcode boundary file is highly detailed, includes special boundary line attributes and is workstation ready. - UNIVERSAL - the Postcode boundaries have been filtered to make the resultant file suitable for use with most PC-based desktop mapping and GIS software. It is still geographically accurate. - MINIMAL - the Postcode boundaries have been heavily filtered. The Minimal Postcode boundary file represents only the approximate shape of the postcode area. This product was produced in conjunction with Australia Post.

Product Type

dataset

eCat Id

77486

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Keywords

• GIS Dataset

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)

• Earth Sciences

• Published_Internal

Publication Date

2003-01-01T00:00:00

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Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem    

Classification - unclassified

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Special, MOU, etc.

Access - restricted

Use - license

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Purpose

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Topic Category

geoscientificInformation

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In 1991, Australia Post and Geoscience Australia defined, mapped and digitised the official Australia Post Postcode areas. The topographic maps used to mark the Postcode boundary lines included a combination of scales ranging from 1:10 000 to 1:2 million. In general terms, the scale of the mapping used to define the position of the Postcode boundary lines is a reflection of both the population density and the complexity of the boundary feature. Existing boundary data were used in the compilation of some Postcode boundaries. In Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory, where Postcode boundaries coincide with administrative boundaries (suburb, pastoral leases or Local Government Authority ward boundaries) the Postcode boundaries were created from the digital boundary data provided by the Western Australian Land Information System and the ACT Department of the Environment, Land and Planning respectively. State borders and coastline features are based on the 1:100 000 national data set produced by Geoscience Australia.

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Extents

[-44.0, -9.0, 112.0, 154.0]

Reference System

Spatial Resolution

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