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								<gco:CharacterString>Free to download from website.</gco:CharacterString>
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										<gmd:URL>https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/standards/australian-statistical-geography-standard-asgs-edition-3/jul2021-jun2026</gmd:URL>
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						<gco:CharacterString>Section Of State (SOS) boundaries were created using various sources including the Geoscape digital datasets and ABS boundaries, zoning information from state planning agencies and imagery. State borders are aligned to Australia’s Land Borders dataset produced by Geoscience Australia and available from http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/140044. Positional Accuracy: Positional accuracy is an assessment of the closeness of the location of the spatial objects in relation to their true positions on the earth's surface. The positional accuracy includes: - a horizontal accuracy assessment - a vertical accuracy assessment. Positional accuracy for ABS boundaries is dependent on the accuracy of the features they have been aligned to. ABS boundaries are aligned to a number of layers supplied by Geoscape with an accuracy of +/- 50 mm. Geoscape layers and their positional accuracy are as follows: - Transport and Topography +/- 2 metres in urban areas and +/- 10 metres in rural and remote areas; - CadLite +/- 2 metres in urban areas and +/- 10 metres in rural and remote areas; - Administrative Boundaries: derived from the cadastre data from each Australian State and Territory jurisdiction; - Greenspace and Hydrology: 90% of well-defined features are within 1 mm (at plot scale) of their true position, e.g. 1:500 equates to +/- 0.5 metre and 1:25,000 equates to +/- 25 metres. No "shift" of data as a means of "cartographic enhancement" to facilitate presentation has been employed for any real world feature. Precision: Boundary coordinates have been rounded to 8 decimal places, equivalent to 1.1132 mm at the equator. All ABS boundaries have been generalised to 5 cm with a 7.5 cm shared boundary tolerance. </gco:CharacterString>
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