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Machine-readable way to determine if plant species is native to Australia
G'day Steve,
Yep APNI (Australian Plant Name Index) list Australian Native and Naturalized plants as well as some weed species.
APNI includes some services for looking up plant names.
APC the ...
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Australian post code/area shapefiles
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, exact geographic boundaries for the post codes are not well defined. Indeed, the data available from the ABS are re-released periodically. However for ...
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Open Land Cover Data for Australia
The WRF Preprocessing System (WPS) has open land data and a documentation.
You could also try the NCAR data. There is land cover included but the webpage is unclear about the data access.
A data ...
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Agriculture shapefiles and additional GIS data for Australia
Here are the links that might be what you are looking for but I'd google it if these were not what you are looking for:
http://www.diva-gis.org/Data
http://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/data
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Can anyone recommend a comprehensive site to find Building Shapefiles for Sydney and its suburbs?
Microsoft recently released building footprints for all of Australia. See their Github page here; https://github.com/microsoft/AustraliaBuildingFootprints
The licence is Microsoft's Open Database ...
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Can anyone recommend a comprehensive site to find Building Shapefiles for Sydney and its suburbs?
PSMA's Geoscape service has building footprints covering all of Australia; https://geoscape.com.au/product/
Unfortunately it is not free and charges are usually based on the size of the area you're ...
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Why is my scraper returning inconsistent results and timing out?
Some tips for scrapers:
log: don't stop at "sometimes I get data and sometimes I don't" -- when you get unexpected results in the response, log it so you can learn what happened. Specifically when ...
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Why is my scraper returning inconsistent results and timing out?
You may get better answers on CodeReview, but just glancing at your code I have one suggestion that is to split the codes into a scraping and parsing steps. This will help with reproducibility and ...
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Open Land Cover Data for Australia
The official Australian Land Cover can be located here. However, it's a WMS only. You may be able to contact GeoScience Australia for a raster file.
The description:
The Land Cover map service ...
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Open Land Cover Data for Australia
The AusCover data portal is also likely to be of use here. Specifically, Land cover dynamics and phenology
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Where to find data on Australian business types and locations?
I wasn't able to find any free datasets which answered my question.
But the next best thing was a reasonably cheap dataset from http://datajet.com.au which had business name, type and lat/long:
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Australia Hotel/Motel Data
DMOZ is a directory and naturally is great for tasks like this. You're going to have to do all of the leg work though: Search DMOZ for Australia + Hotel
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Machine-readable way to determine if plant species is native to Australia
I don't know when this came along, but the Atlas of Living Australia now has an API which can (maybe) answer the question.
This query asks for every member of the plant kingdom for which there is a ...
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Seeking Underground Infrastructure Data for Brisbane (Australia)
OpenStreetMap has underground items in its data so you can pull data from there.
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Are the Local Government Area wards of New South Wales available in a vector format?
Electoral boundaries from 2015 are available on the website of the New South Wales Electoral Commission.
GDA94 Geographical MID/MIF Files
New South Wales electoral boundaries for the 2015 ...
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Reputable source to get foot traffic in Australia based on different locations
There is no open data source that I am aware of that would be able to provide foot traffic at the hourly level for the method you are looking for. That being said, an option would be to look up recent ...
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