[@OKFNau] GeoJSON data format

[Andrew Perry]

Hi Mark

At Open Local we've setup a MapIt server that you can access a heap of government boundaries in GeoJSON. 

List of Commonwealth Districts: http://mapit.openlocal.org.au/areas/CED.html
List of State Districts:  http://mapit.openlocal.org.au/areas/SEB.html
List of Local Government Districts:  http://mapit.openlocal.org.au/areas/LSA.html
List of Postal Areas (not quite postcodes): http://mapit.openlocal.org.au/areas/POA.html

Clicking on a district will give you a page displaying the area and a link to the GeoJSON. 

We need to update some State Electorates (eg Vic) following redistributions. 

Hope that helps!

Andrew

Sent from my iPad

> On 2 Feb 2014, at 3:16 am, Jack Golding <jackgolding at live.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi Mark (and everyone else as this is my first email!),
> 
> I have used GeoJSON data with D3.js attempting to visualize respondents to surveys (I work in market research) and for a university project with Thales.
> 
> I wouldn't bother looking for geoJSON files, I couldn't find any for anything other than the outline of Australia. Try getting KML/Shape files and converting them with https://github.com/mapbox/togeojson (disclaimer: only just googled this), use http://ogre.adc4gis.com/ (had a bit of trouble with this) or load the file in QGIS and export layer as GeoJSON (think that is what I did.)
> 
> I have only had struggles with this standard, unfortunately due to it not being used enough - even though I can code I don't get to do mapping enough so when I do it is always get the data I want from ABS, crop it with QGIS, use VBA to read my table into a KML file, attach the QGIS layer, view in Google maps and take a screenshot. 
> 
> I hope this was helpful and not just rambling!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jack
> From: macca.d at gmail.com
> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:39:47 +0000
> To: okfn-au at lists.okfn.org
> Subject: [@OKFNau] GeoJSON data format
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm interested in finding out if anyone here has been involved in any projects using GeoJSON data.  I'm looking to do a bit of advocacy work for the standard (including some demos) and the situation is pretty dire on data.gov.au, who only has one provider: a few feeds from Glenorchy City Council.  I'm looking for some more.
> 
> Does anyone know of any other sources for local geo data in this standard?  Has anyone here had any experience with the standard?  Either positive or negative?
> 
> Thanks
> Mark
> 
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