[Aust-NZ] NZ Towns

[Gavin Treadgold]

On 2010-11-12, at 13:16 , Robert Coup wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Peter <webwiz at pl.net> wrote:
> 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.
> GPS coords would also be good but i can get those from google geocoder.
> 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?

Much of the boundaries you should be able to get from Statistics New Zealands digital boundaries.

<http://www.stats.co.nz/browse_for_stats/people_and_communities/geographic-areas/download-digital-boundaries.aspx>

Cheers Gav

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