[OSGeo-Discuss] Towns listing

[Peter]

If i wanted to make a list of towns with their population, region and district, for New Zealand, where would i start. So far ive found these, but all are going to take lots of cleaning up.

Cheers.

P.

Theres a list of electoral ward/district/population:

http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/population/estimates_and_projections/subnational-pop-estimates-tables.aspx

Local authoritys

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_Authorities_of_New_Zealand

Towns

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_in_New_Zealand

Stats Meshblocks

http://www.stats.govt.nz/Census/2006CensusHomePage/MeshblockDataset.aspx