Updated: 10 April 2008

Gazetteer of Australia 2006 Release

The Gazetteer provides information on the location and spelling of more than 322 000 geographical names across Australia as at March 2006. 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 and postcode data resides with the relevant State, Territory and Australian Government agencies which are custodians of the data.

The Gazetteer fields include:

Field	Description
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 (Feature Codes listing)
Status	Indicates whether the name is authorised.
Variant name	Variant or alternative name used for the feature.
Postcode	Australia Post 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.

Please note: Any organisation or individual wanting to use the Gazetteer data in a similar capacity to the Online Place Name Search or any other online application requires an Internet user licence. The licence fee is on the licence and order form and on the Digital Data Licence Fees page.

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 gazetteer@ga.gov.au.

List of corrections made to the Gazetteer dataset.

Product Specifications

Coverage: Australia

Currency: 2006

Coordinates: Geographical

Datum: GDA94

Format: Fixed width ASCII and Microsoft Access Database

Medium: CD-ROM

Forward Program: Annual revision

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