On 23/12/20 11:40 am, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On 23/12/20 9:23 am, [email protected] wrote: >> We had a similar confusion in Melbourne when they tried the LGA >> restriction approach. No one knew where the boundaries were, even >> people who lived there. They know their own postcode, but that's it. > > > I live in Surrey Hills, VIC and to say it's confusing here would be an > understatement. Our postcode 3127 covers two suburbs (Surrey Hills and > Mont Albert). Our suburb is covered by two federal electorates, (Kooyong > and Chisholm), two state electorates (Burwood and Box Hill) and two > councils (Boroondara and Whitehorse). > > All four boundaries (postcode/council/state/federal) are different.
But federalism is a great thing (:-)} Seriously, it would have needed some thinking by ACT (and other govts) if they were actually interested in clear communications to the public. My guess is that a list of rim-suburbs, inside and outside, would have been the most useful for the public (but a bit lengthy). And postcodes would have had the second-highest comprehension-level, but not particularly good. LGA boundaries are known only to people who work for LGAs and those who live adjacent to them. But ... irrespective of the choice, a decent proportion of the population could have navigated their way around one or more maps. Using https://mangomap.com/robertyoung/maps/93143/NSW-LGAs# it requires only 4 maps to include the rim-location-names. -- Roger Clarke mailto:[email protected] T: +61 2 6288 6916 http://www.xamax.com.au http://www.rogerclarke.com Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
