Lost in the mail: The inherent errors of mapping Australia post postcodes to ABS derived postal areas

Australian Geographical Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 171-179

  Jones, Simon D ^a   Eagleson, S ^a   Escobar, F J ^b   Hunter, G J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data accuracy; Derived postal areas; Mapping errors; Postcodes

Indexed keywords

DATA QUALITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; MAPPING;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0042267262     PISSN: 00049190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8470.00203     Document Type: Article

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