Add ASGS edition 3 (2021) boundaries for region mapping

[nf-s]

We are missing most boundaries from ASGS edition 3 (2021) - https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/standards/australian-statistical-geography-standard-asgs-edition-3/jul2021-jun2026/access-and-downloads/digital-boundary-files

I can find datasets in NationalMap that use the following ASGS edition 3 boundaries:

• [ ] States and Territories - 2021
• [ ] Indigenous Locations - 2021
• [ ] Indigenous Areas - 2021
• [ ] Indigenous Regions - 2021
• [ ] Local Government Areas - 2022
• [ ] State Electoral Divisions - 2021
• [ ] Commonwealth Electoral Divisions - 2021
• [ ] Postal Areas - 2021
• [ ] Suburbs and Localities - 2021
• [ ] Significant Urban Areas - 2021
• [ ] Urban Centres and Localities - 2021
• [ ] Section of State - 2021
• [ ] Section of State Range - 2021
• [ ] Remoteness Area - 2021

There are a few other ASGS edition 3 boundaries that we don't have - but I couldn't find any datasets that use them

• [ ] Mesh Blocks - 2021
• [ ] Australia - 2021
• [ ] Local Government Areas - 2023
• [ ] State Electoral Divisions - 2022
• [ ] Tourism Regions - 2021
• [ ] Australian Drainage Divisions - 2021
• [ ] Destination Zones - 2021

We are also missing a lot of boundaries from ASGS 2016 - but our support for ASGS 2011 seems mostly complete

To add boundaries, we need to convert them to mapbox vector tiles, and then add them to either the global TerriaJS regionMapping.json - which would probably make sense for ASGS - or add them to map-specific regionMapping.json files

We have our helper https://github.com/TerriaJS/boundary-tiles library

One thing to keep in mind, we need to test all SDMX datasets to make sure we don't repeat

• https://github.com/TerriaJS/nationalmap/issues/1157

I did a quick survey of the new ABS geospatial web services. They publish ArcGis MapServer and FeatureServer for ASGS boundaries (at least for 2021) - they even publish OGC API for Features! - but I couldn't find any vector tile support. So we would still need to ingest shapefiles/geopackages and convert them to mapbox vector tiles.

See also

• https://github.com/TerriaJS/nationalmap/issues/1070

[nf-s]

I did a quick survey of the difference in boundaries across ASGS editions - while testing SDMX dataflows in Census 2021 category. It is not good. Here is a story that shows differences in Postal Areas and State Electoral Divisions

I think we should remove the following groups as soon as possible

• Census 2021/Commonwealth Electoral Divisions
• Census 2021/Postal Areas
• Census 2021/Remoteness Areas
• Census 2021/Suburbs and Localities
• Census 2021/State Electoral Divisions
• Census 2021/Significant Urban Areas
• Census 2021/Urban Centres, Localities...
• Data by region/Indigenous Areas
• Data by region/Remoteness Areas

There are a few other dataflows that have incorrect or missing regions

• All LGA 2020, 2022, 2023
• Environment/Environmental management dataflows use Natural resource management regions 2011 - the should be 2016

[nf-s]

We may need latest LGA and postcode geographies for November for new ASEA datasets

[AnaBelgun]

Update meeting GA 29 Sep 23:

• it would be great if we could have a publicly available catalogue of what regions are supported in NatMap / region mapping and a refresh of the csv-geo-au
• good opportunity once these are done to communicate via GA and Terria channels

[nf-s]

Pretty please also do

• https://github.com/TerriaJS/nationalmap/issues/1232

[nf-s]

After we add ASGS 2021 - we need to do some sort of announcement - to discuss how.

Also update csv-geo-au

Also re-enable SDMX datasets

[AnaBelgun]

Update 16 Oct 23:

• almost fully processed and ready to be uploaded to region mapping server
• final testing and start uploaded today

[ljowen]

• Upload today

[AnaBelgun]

Update 23 Oct 23:

• push CLUE config and finish the PR today

[nf-s]

After release, create a list of SDMX dataflows to send to ABS for QA

[nf-s]

This will be in for next release - @nf-s to go through and update SDMX with new regions

[nf-s]

In production!