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Contents
1
User information............................................................................................................... 4
1.1
User support/contact information ................................................................................ 4
1.2
Geoscience Australia .................................................................................................. 4
1.3
Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM) ............................ 4
1.4
Other contributors ....................................................................................................... 5
1.5
User feedback ............................................................................................................. 6
2
About Gazetteer of Australia 2010 Release ................................................................... 7
2.1
Gazetteer of Australia 2010 Release components ..................................................... 7
2.2
The Gazetteer of Australia 2010 Release product...................................................... 7
2.3
Concise Gazetteer ...................................................................................................... 7
2.4
Community Geographic Domain Names (CGDN) ...................................................... 8
2.5
Coordinate system ...................................................................................................... 8
3
Data loading ...................................................................................................................... 9
3.1
Application formats...................................................................................................... 9
3.2
Description of files....................................................................................................... 9
3.3
Use of the database .................................................................................................... 9
4
Data structure and content............................................................................................ 13
4.1
Data structure............................................................................................................ 13
4.2
Data dictionary .......................................................................................................... 15
5
Data quality information ................................................................................................ 18
5.1
Lineage...................................................................................................................... 18
5.2
Positional accuracy ................................................................................................... 18
5.3
Attribute accuracy ..................................................................................................... 18
5.4
Logical consistency ................................................................................................... 19
5.5
Completeness ........................................................................................................... 19
Appendix A: Metadata ........................................................................................................... 20
Appendix B: Place name categories.................................................................................... 23
Appendix C: Feature codes .................................................................................................. 24
Glossary ................................................................................................................................. 29
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