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Load layer: Global Administrative Boundaries V2 #6

Open djtfmartin opened 10 years ago

djtfmartin commented 10 years ago

migrated from: https://code.google.com/p/ala/issues/detail?id=68 date: Thu Aug 8 05:37:04 2013 author: moyesyside

Original Issue - https://code.google.com/p/alageospatialportal/issues/detail?id=971

Project Member Reported by chris.fl...@gmail.com, May 8, 2012 Organisation: Berkeley University Contact: John Wiezorek Link: http://www.gdam.org Type: Contextual May 21, 2012 Project Member #1 leebel...@gmail.com (No comment was entered for this change.) Labels: Type-Enhancement

djtfmartin commented 10 years ago

date: Thu Aug 8 16:28:40 2013 author: moyesyside

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UPDATES: Labels: SpatialPortal

djtfmartin commented 10 years ago

date: Thu Aug 8 17:00:41 2013 author: moyesyside

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UPDATES: Labels: -Spatial-Portal Layers Summary: Load layer: Global Administrative Boundaries V2WAS:(was: LOAD LAYER: Global Administrative Boundaries V2)

Tasilee commented 10 years ago

date: Sun Jun 15 23:28:12 2014 author: leebel...@gmail.com

The GADM data was originally used to populate the gazetteer with polygons representing administrative boundaries such as suburbs. If this was an update to the country INTERNAL administrative boundaries, it is superseded by the SLA, LGA layers.

The only drawback that I can see is if someone wanted to define an area by a State/Territory of a non-Australian country. Possible I suppose.

UPDATES: Owner: adam.col...@gmail.com

ansell commented 8 years ago

PSMA Australia Limited provide much (all?) of this information for Australia. See issue #81 for the state there. All of the PSMA data is now loaded to spatial-test and waiting for the Spatial sprint next week to start to get it into production.

PSMA also provide their data under CC-BY, where GADM have a non-commercial license attached to their data, so we wouldn't want to preference GADM for Australian boundaries based on that.

Tasilee commented 8 years ago

Agreed. If we have PSMA suburb/area boundaries, they should be used in preference to GADM.