Geographical Names Model

This Model is Spatial Information Queensland’s model for geographical names and also a candidate model for all Australian & New Zealand geographical names, also called place names.

Metadata

IRI	https://linked.data.gov.au/def/gn/guidance
Title	Geographical Names Model
Description	This document is both the front page of the Queensland Land Information Geographical Names Model’s repository and a Guidance document and introduces all the other elements of the Geographical Names Model.
Created	2022-04-01
Modified	2023-06-12
Issued	0000-00-00
Creator	Nicholas Car through Frontier SI
Publisher	Queensland Spatial Information
License	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

This model’s document is auto-built from the source file 00-master.adoc and is viewable online at:

• Geographical Names Model

The repository is at:

• https://github.com/Spatial-Information-QLD/geographical-names-model

To contribute to this document, see editing instructions on how to set up the editing environment.

Building Locally

To build this model’s documentation locally, you need to use the AsciDoctor builder for ASCIIDOC documents:

asciidoctor -o model.html 00-master.adoc

Rights and License

Content generated by Spatial Information Queensland is copyright as follows:

© The State of Queensland (Department of Resources) 2023

This information is available for reuse under the Creative Commons 4.0 license, see the LICENSE file for the deed.

Much of the vocabulary content here is copied from elsewhere and, where this has occurred, the vocabulary source is noted so that the source information licensing and rights may be discovered.

Contacts

For more information about these vocabularies, contact:

Spatial Information
GeoResources Division
Department of Resources
Queensland Government
[email protected]

For further information, please visit:

https://www.resources.qld.gov.au/data-mapping
https://qldspatial.information.qld.gov.au/

For technical model implementation questions, contact:

Nicholas Car
[email protected]
Contractor to Spatial Information Qld.