Location Metadata System - Location SA

Gazetteer Areas

Dataset Number	835
Dataset Title	Gazetteer Areas
Status	Published
Metadata Maintained by	LOCSA

Description

Category	Land Administration
Theme	Land Administration
Keywords and Qualifiers
Dataset Type	Spatial
Description	The State Gazetteer is the official record of place names in South Australia, as required by the Geographical names Act. As such it does contains the information relating to places that have been assigned or approved pursuant to the said Act, but also contains information relating to place names not covered by the Act. The aim for the gazetteer is to provide a single point of truth for place names information in South Australia. Gazetteer data is contained in three tables, being: Gazetteer Sites a point data set containing the names of places in South Australia and the relevant attributes. GazetteerLine - a line data set showing the extent of linear features, linked to the point data through the RECNO field Gazetteer Areas - a polygon data set showing the extent of area features, linked to the point data through the RECNO field
Dataset Use	Extent of the polygon features as determined to date
SDE Feature Class Name	GazetteerAreas
Projection/ Coordinate System	GEOGRAPHIC

Custodian

Data Authority

Data Authority	Department for Housing and Urban Development
Data Authority Name	Bradley Slape
	Surveyor-General
Data Manager	Sue Butler
	Manager Land Tenure
	Department for Housing and Urban Development
	sue.butler@sa.gov.au
	+618 7133 2695
Subject Matter Expert	Sue Butler
	Manager Land Tenure
	Department for Housing and Urban Development
	sue.butler@sa.gov.au
	+618 7133 2695
Data Integrity Officer	Sue Butler
	Manager Land Tenure
	Department for Housing and Urban Development
	sue.butler@sa.gov.au
	+618 7133 2695

Data Provider

Data Provider

Location SA

Data Quality

Lineage	Derived by reference to naming decisions, topographic and other maps, explorers journals and other historical documentation.
Completeness	Feature extents are always being added and updated to this database
Positional Accuracy	Scaled from the best available topo maps and other sources, including some GPS fixes. It is appropriate to take due regard of the accuracy of the data capture in any proposed use of the data.
Method / Capture Scale

Tables

Table Name
Primary Table

Field Description

Table	Name	Field Alias	Data Type	% Complete	% Accuracy	Description
Primary Table	OBJECTID		Character	100	100	Standard ESRI field
Primary Table	RECNO		Character	100	100	Unique record identifier
Primary Table	F_CODE		Character	100	100	Feature type stored as a 4 character code ¿ to be replaced with the three fields directly below.
Primary Table	LATITUDE		Character	0	100	GDA94 Latitude
Primary Table	LONGITUDE		Character	0	100	GDA94 Longitude

Geographic Extent

Extent Name	South Australia
Min Easting or Longitude	129
Min Northing or Latitude	-38.25
Max Easting or Longitude	141
Max Northing or Latitude	-26

Dataset Status

Initially Acquired	16-NOV-2005
Last Updated	CURRENT
Update Frequency	As required
Maintenance Method	ArcGIS update methodology
Metadata Created	06-FEB-2015
If copied, source dataset
Metadata updated	20/MAY/25 dtup\jackmanc
Authorised	07/MAY/15 dtup\jackmanc
Metadata Retired

Security Classification

ISMF Classification	OFFICIAL
ISMF Integrity	I3 - HIGH Requirement
ISMF Availability	A3 - HIGH Requirement
AusGOAL Licensing Classification	CC BY (Attribution)
Attribution
Further considerations for supply of dataset	Not yet assessed

Operator Notes

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