Lineage of ANZMETA geographic extent names
This document describes the lineage of the development of the
controlled vocabularies of "geographic
extent names" for use with the "place-keyword" element of
the ANZMETA DTD. The various lookup tables
are available here.
- anzlic-ami_100k
... Australian Mapsheet Index 1:100,000
- anzlic-ami_250k
... Australian Mapsheet Index 1:250,000
- anzlic-ami_1000k
... Australian Mapsheet Index 1:100,000,000
- anzlic-aus ...
Australian states and territories
- extents and accepted names have been verified by each
jurisdiction ANZLIC Metadata Working Group (AMWG)
representative
- anzlic-aus_catchment
... Australian catchments
- anzlic-aus_substate
... Australian sub-state
- assorted regions within each jurisdiction
- contributed by each state and territory
- anzlic-foreign
... Foreign regions
- anzlic-ibra ...
Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA)
- anzlic-imcra ... Interim Marine and Coastal Regionalisation for
Australia (IMCRA)
- anzlic-lga ...
Australian Local Government Area (LGA)
- contributed by each state and territory
- anzlic-mar_5
... Marsden Squares 5 degree grid
- algorithm for generating a regular grid was developed by
MCDD
- anzlic-mar_10
... Marsden Squares 10 degree grid
- algorithm for generating a regular grid was developed by
MCDD
- anzlic-nz ... New
Zealand
- anzlic-other
... Other unclassified regions
- some useful other regions from the Environmental Data Directory (EDD)
- anzlic-seas ...
Oceans and Seas
- developed by MCDD consultant by
interpretation from an atlas
- anzlic-subsurface
... Subsurface
- developed by MCDD in consultation
with experts
- anzlic-wmo_5
... World Meteorological Organisation 5 degree grid
- algorithm for generating a regular WMO grid was developed by
MCDD
- anzlic-wmo_10
...World Meteorological Organisation 10 degree grid
- algorithm for generating a regular WMO grid was developed by
MCDD