Suburb re-alignment

mtrax · Post by **mtrax** » 09 October 07 2:16 pm

the following cache is in Rivett, ACT can you re-adjust the boundry for Rivett please?

http://geocaching.com.au/cache/ga0896

Also I note another cache in this suburb is also not mark for Rivett

Thanks

Post by **caughtatwork** » 09 October 07 2:59 pm

The closest PO location is Stirling.

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Stirling	-35.35	149.04
Chapman	-35.35	149.03
Rivett	-35.34	149.03
Duffy	-35.33	149.03
Waramanga	-35.35	149.06

There's not much we can do about post office locations which are so close together.

mtrax · Post by **mtrax** » 09 October 07 4:52 pm

I know for a fact there is a Post Office about 200 m from the cache point, I'm not sure where the Stirling PO is but I'm thinking its not that close.

Post by **caughtatwork** » 09 October 07 5:27 pm

But the location that the database has for the PO may not be the actual co-ords for the PO.

If you plot those PO locations, you can see where they fall.

mtrax · Post by **mtrax** » 09 October 07 5:33 pm

lol,
I moved it north into Duffy and now it shows Rivett, I have a choice between right location, wrong name..
I'll move it back to Rivett Oval

Bewilderbeest · Post by **Bewilderbeest** » 09 October 07 7:47 pm

Hey Mtrax,

If you want definitive boundaries, you need to use the suburb boundaries as defined in the Australian Standard Geographic Classification (Cat. no. 1216.0 I believe from the ABS website).

Caughtatwork can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the info used here is proximity to centroid of the area, rather than which side of the boundary it falls.

Cheers
Bewilderbeest

PS About 5 years ago, I used to work with geographic boundaries quite a bit. I don't know what they are like now, but in those days postcode boundaries were of dubious quality.