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Gazetteer of Australia 2010 ReleaseNote: This metadata describes the dataset in accordance with the ANZLIC (Australia New Zealand Land Information Council) Core Metadata Guidelines Version 2. Dataset citationANZLIC unique identifier: ANZCW0703014255 Title: Gazetteer of Australia 2010 Release CustodianCustodian: Geoscience Australia Jurisdiction: Australia DescriptionAbstract: Contains all the authorised place names covering Australia's land and offshore areas. The 2010 release consists of 332,024 place names and each record consists of the following thirteen fields: - Record ID : Unique Identifier for each feature; - Authority ID: Custodian State or Territory or Authority - State ID: State or Territory that the feature falls in (does not necessarily match Authority ID) - Name : Name of the feature - Feature Code: Code indicating the type of feature - Status: indicates if the name is authorised - Variant Name: alternative name for the feature. - Postcode: Australia Post postcode for feature (only assigned for relevant feature codes) - Concise Gazetteer: indicates if the feature is included in the Concise Gazetteer - Longitude: Longitude in decimal degrees - Latitude: Latitude in decimal degrees - 100K Map: 1:100,000 scale map number that feature falls in - CGDN: Indicates if the place name can be used in the state.au second level domains (eg. bathurst.nsw.au) for use by community website portals that reflect community interests ANZLIC search words:
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Geographic extent name: AUSTRALIA INCLUDING EXTERNAL TERRITORIES - AUSAAT - Australia - Australia Geographic extent polygon: 70 -9.1425, 170 -9.1425, 170 -69.417, 70 -69.417, 70 -9.1425, Note: The format for each Geographic extent name is: Name - Identifier - Category - Jurisdiction (as appropriate) See GEN Register
Data currencyBeginning date: Not Known Ending date: 2011-01-11 Dataset statusProgress: Complete Maintenance and update frequency: Not Known Access
Access constraints: Copyright of the Gazetteer of Australia resides with the relevant, State, Territory and Commonwealth Governments. Free Data DownloadData qualityLineage: 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). Positional accuracy: The coordinates are supplied by the various State, Territory and Commonwealth jurisdictions. Data is requested to be supplied to 5 decimal places of a decimal degree (approximately 1 metre), but this does not indicate the absolute accuracy of the location. Some features may only be recorded with the accuracy to the nearest minute of longitude and latitude (approximately 2 kilometres). Gazetteer references to extensive spatial features (eg. national parks) should be viewed only as a general indication of spatial location, because of the various methods that may be applied to assign a single point location to an extensive areal feature (polygon). Attribute accuracy: The following attribute checks and alterations have been undertaken on placename data sourced from State, Territory and Commonwealth jurisdictions; - Field order adjusted to standard 13 fields; - Records converted to upper case text; - Deletion of all leading and trailing blanks and changing of multiple internal spaces to single spaces; - Duplicate records (where information is duplicated in every field) have been removed; - State ID concatenated to Record ID to create a unique Record ID for Gazetteer dataset; - Creation of additional fields where not supplied by jurisdiction - State ID, Authority ID; - Creation of additional fields derived by Geoscience Australia - Postcode, Concise Gazetteer, 100K Map, CGDN. In some cases jurisdictions have supplied Postcode information with their data supply - in such cases the supplied information has been used; - Verification of Status codes (Official, Historic, Unofficial); - Mapping of Feature Codes supplied to the 117 standard Feature Codes adopted by CGNA. Record deleted if no suitable mapping identified; - A range of spatial checks performed on data; - Ensuring all attribute fields are present for all records; and - Ensuring all records have the same number of attribute fields present. Logical Consistency: A range of spatial and attribute checking procedures were applied consistently to all supplied data to ensure that they comply with specified lengths, data types and attribute values. Completeness: The Gazetteer data is a subset of the complete information sets held by each of the State, Territory and Commonwealth jurisdictions. For example, some jurisdictions maintain additional fields for each record such as Local Government Area, Origin of placename, UTM location coordinates etc. Records that did not meet the required attribute and spatial checks (and could not be reconciled with the relevant jurisdiction) were removed from the Gazetteer dataset. All fields have been populated (null entries have been replaced with '9999'), except for the Variant name field, which may contain null values where there is no Variant name supplied. Contact information
Metadata informationMetadata date: 2011-09-22 Additional metadataMetadata reference XHTML: http://www.ga.gov.au/meta/ANZCW0703014255.html Metadata reference XML: http://www.ga.gov.au/meta/ANZCW0703014255.xml . Authors:Geoscience Australia |
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