[Aust-NZ] NZ Towns

Sun Nov 14 23:24:24 PST 2010

QGIS: Oh, of course.  It'll be a missing msvcr80.dll or 71 or 90 or
something similar.
I thought the instructions did tell you to install this (and where
from), but looking now I can't see any reference to it, which is a bit
of a concern.

If I had the choice I'd run Linux, but generally I find QGIS works fine
on Windows.  The most common problem I've had is actually other software
installing various open source libraries into system32, which override
the versions installed in QGIS' directory, preventing QGIS or a plugin
from functioning.

Alister

> -----Original Message-----
> From: aust-nz-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:aust-nz-
> bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Peter
> Sent: Monday, 15 November 2010 5:32 p.m.
> To: aust-nz at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Aust-NZ] NZ Towns
> 
> Its an almagamation of the sources i named, geonames, linz electoral,
> and google geocoder for the coords, with a bit of stuff patched in
> (when i had any doubts) from statnz interactive boundary viewer
> (ambiguous regions, some populations). Where spelling disagreed i
> tended to go with the electoral dataset
> http://www.linz.govt.nz/placenames/electoral-streets-places/ Just
> beware there was a lot of hand editing involved, hence errors are a
> real possibility.
> 
> QGIS: i tried both installers, both had the same error. It wasnt the
> Program Files thing becasue i put it in Program-Files the second time
> to be safe. As far as i got in the documentation suggested it was the
> absence of a windows library. I ran out of time and patience. Given
> your guys recommendation ill try it again soon. Failing that ill try
it
> on a linux box, thatd probably, yeah, be easier... The thought of all
> that FOSS sql, python, etc running on windows gives me the willys.
> 
> METADATA: Yes, No. The reason being the same as why i was reliant on
> such half baked sources, lack of GIS knowhow.
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> pcreso at pcreso.com wrote:
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > Thanks for that, a useful dataset. Before I use it, can you give me
> some
> > idea of where it was derived from, & what licence the content is
> > available under? If there are several sources, then identifying the
> > source of each record would be useful, as most licences have an
> > attribution requirement.
> >
> > & QGIS is worth persevering with & have a look at Postgis for
spatial
> > data management :-)
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Brent Wood
> >
> >
> > --- On *Mon, 11/15/10, Peter /<webwiz at pl.net>/* wrote:
> >
> >
> >     From: Peter <webwiz at pl.net>
> >     Subject: Re: [Aust-NZ] NZ Towns
> >     To: aust-nz at lists.osgeo.org
> >     Date: Monday, November 15, 2010, 2:01 PM
> >
> >     Indeed, i eventually concluded that the secondary sources that
> are
> >     freely available are all unreliable. The geographic placename
> >     register from linz is two years out of date, and its regions are
> not
> >     TLA regions but land districts. LINZ also has an up to date
> >     electoral districts file, which i was able to use to get tla
> >     districts from for some 6000 odd places. The geonames dataset is
> >     based on the geographic placenames dataset, and has the region
> field
> >     mostly empty. It has partial population fields, ( about a
quarter
> >     maybe), and approx coords. I found the google geocoder coords to
> be
> >     quite a bit more accurate. I suspect the geonames coords are
> >     someones attempts to shift the linz place label coords by half
> the
> >     label width or something.
> >
> >     Anyway the only real solution is as you say is go back to the
> >     primary GIS data. Attempts to bodge together old secondary
> sources
> >     only introduces yet more noise into the dataset.
> >
> >     FWIW my excel spreadhsheet is here if its any use to anyone.
> >     http://www.zoneblue.org/files/nz-towns.zip
> >
> >     Which served my immediate purpose, but i do need to get more
> >     organised GIS wise.
> >
> >     I have no real fondness for large java or .NET frameworks which
> are
> >     needed for the main GIS packages. As for open source, QGIS would
> not
> >     install, Grass did (brought a bucket load of stuff with it too),
> so
> >     i guess ill try learning it.
> >
> >     Thanks for your help guys.
> >
> >     Peter
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >     Gavin Treadgold wrote:
> >      > On 2010-11-12, at 13:16 , Robert Coup wrote:
> >      >> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Peter <webwiz at pl.net
> >     </mc/compose?to=webwiz at pl.net>
> >      >> <mailto:webwiz at pl.net </mc/compose?to=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/geograp
> hic-areas/download-digital-boundaries.aspx>
> >      >
> >      > Cheers Gav
> >      >
> >
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