matthewproctor / australianpostcodes

A community sourced comprehensive database of Australian Post Codes with geolocation data.
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Misclassified localities #27

Closed edschofield closed 2 years ago

edschofield commented 3 years ago

Thanks for this awesome repo! Very useful.

I have visualised each postcode as a scatter plot using Plotly / Mapbox and this shows immediately that a few localities have dodgy data in the Google / precise coordinates columns. See the HTML plot in the zip file attached.

The dodgy ones I can see are:

In all of these cases the places don't appear in Australia Post's postcode database or Google Maps but they do appear on http://postcodes-australia.com. (They seem to be minor suburbs that share a postcode with others.)

Not sure of your workflow for contributions. I'd be happy to fix them in the CSV and make a pull request but the repo has so many file formats it would be far more work to fix them all. I assume you have some automated process to generate the different file formats from one canonical source?

visualisation.zip

matthewproctor commented 2 years ago

Thanks Ed, much appreciated. Will update.