<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>On 2010-11-12, at 13:16 , Robert Coup wrote:</div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Peter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:webwiz@pl.net">webwiz@pl.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I have blown an inordinate amount of time trying to merge various online sources to get a listing of towns in NZ. Ideally this list would have town , district/city/unitary council, region, and population or area. This would allow me filter by towns above certain sizes for various web app uses.<br>
GPS coords would also be good but i can get those from google geocoder.<br></blockquote><div>Getting area or boundaries will be harder. Possibly the Fire Service suburbs dataset (available for $0 but under onerous terms) will help, or look at meshblocks/area-units and their populations from the census database and try and derive from that?</div>
</div></blockquote><br></div><div>Much of the boundaries you should be able to get from Statistics New Zealands digital boundaries.</div><div><br></div><div><<a href="http://www.stats.co.nz/browse_for_stats/people_and_communities/geographic-areas/download-digital-boundaries.aspx">http://www.stats.co.nz/browse_for_stats/people_and_communities/geographic-areas/download-digital-boundaries.aspx</a>></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers Gav</div><br></body></html>