Real Estate Maps

Description

The State Library of Queensland has a unique collection of original maps and plans created by real estate firms. It includes more than 1000 maps from the 1850s to the mid 1900s. 165 of these have been digitised and are included in this dataset.

Estate maps can give information about land subdivisions, including how the land was subdivided, when it was first auctioned, who the surveyors were and who sold the land.  They are useful for investigating the history of urban land areas.

The maps are predominantly from Brisbane but also cover some regional areas of Queensland such as the Gold and Sunshine Coasts.

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Date Published
25 February 2011
Date Updated
11 April 2011
Update Frequency
Not specified

Dataset Information

data.gov.au Category
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Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY 3.0)
Permalink
http://data.gov.au/2179

Contributing Agency Information

Agency
State Library of Queensland (View all datasets from State Library of Queensland)
Jurisdiction
Agency Program

Dataset Coverage

Temporal Coverage
Not specified
Geospatial Coverage
Queensland
Granularity
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3 Responses to “Real Estate Maps” Dataset Comments RSS

  1. 12/03/11 at 10:35 Daniel O’Connor

    This data set is well structured; and leverages dublin core terms amongst others to provide infromation. It’s only one step away from being linked data.

    The only thing which would make it more useful is to provide some rdf:resource / rdf:seeAlso information which only contains URIs to the images – would save having to do funky parsing tricks on the dc:identifier information (see below for what I mean).

    1000 pixel jpg: http://bishop.slq.qld.gov.au:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=106637&custom_att_3=NLA

    • 28/03/11 at 11:48 Neal Fitzgerald

      Thanks Daniel

      I put this set together. There seems to be a bit missing in your comment about rdf. Can you give an example as to what you might like to see? I agree that the text qualifier to differentiate the images is a bit clunky. My brief was to work within the OAI static repository schema, but maybe if I declare the rdf namespace, the XML will still validate.

  2. 28/03/11 at 12:10 Dan O’Connor

    Hey Neal,
    For the high level theory – http://linkeddata.org/

    The the low level change;
    In your //dc:identifer nodes; you have value like:

    “1000 pixel jpg: (url)”

    If I were trying to transform this to RDF; I would have to do string manipulation to extract the link.

    A better way may to (additionally) include an rdf:resource attribute:
    //dc:identifer[@rdf:resource] = (url)

    or

    //rdfs:seeAlso (url)

    or even just a whole other set of identifier nodes; and leave the “1000 pixel jpg” fragment out.

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