VIC DELWP - Victoria Unearthed - Sands & McDougall Business Directory (Point) 1896-1974

This dataset presents the location of business listings from Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria. The data was created by digitising the published business directories using an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process. The extracted information includes the business name, address and business type as listed in the Sands & McDougall directories. The address information was subsequently geocoded to provide a spatial location. The data spans the the Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria publication years 1896, 1925 and 1974.\n\nVictoria Unearthed is a collection of data which includes past and present information about historical businesses, potential land and groundwater contamination, as well as information about contamination management and cleanup activities. Victoria Unearthed has been created in response to the Independent Inquiry into the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA).\n\nFor further information about this dataset, visit the data source:[Government of Victoria - Department of Land, Water and Planning](https://www.environment.vic.gov.au/sustainability/victoria-unearthed/about-the-data/sands-and-mcdougall).\n\nPlease note:\n\n * Attributes captured by OCR ("directory address", "business name" and "business type") are uncorrected and may include errors.\n\n * The positional accuracy is affected by the limitations inherent with OCR and geocoding. Some issues such as changing street names, are exacerbated by the age of the records.\n\n * The directories were not consistent in the amount of information captured as the business address, in many cases it only lists the town or suburb for the business.\n\n * A modern (July 2018) property address, street or locality as defined by VicMap has been captured for all records.\n\n * Additional information has been provided to allow the accuracy of the results to be evaluated with each record containing the data used at each stage of the data capture process.\n

本数据集收录了来自《桑兹与麦克杜格尔维多利亚工商名录》（Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria）的企业名录空间位置信息。本数据集通过光学字符识别（Optical Character Recognition, OCR）技术对已出版的工商名录进行数字化处理后构建而成。提取得到的信息包含该名录中收录的企业名称、地址及经营类别。随后对地址信息开展地理编码处理，以获取对应的空间位置。本数据集涵盖《桑兹与麦克杜格尔维多利亚工商名录》1896年、1925年及1974年三个版本的内容。

《维多利亚出土数据集》（Victoria Unearthed）是一套整合了历史企业、潜在土地与地下水污染、污染治理及清理活动相关古今信息的数据集合。本数据集的构建源于针对环境保护署（Environmental Protection Authority, EPA）开展的独立调查。

如需了解本数据集的更多信息，请访问数据源：[维多利亚州政府土地、水与规划署](https://www.environment.vic.gov.au/sustainability/victoria-unearthed/about-the-data/sands-and-mcdougall)。

请注意：
* 经光学字符识别获取的属性字段（包括“名录地址”“企业名称”及“经营类别”）未经校正，可能存在错误。
* 位置精度受光学字符识别与地理编码技术固有局限的影响，诸如街道名称变更等问题因记录年代久远而更为突出。
* 各版名录收录的企业地址信息详实程度并不统一，多数情况下仅标注企业所在的城镇或郊区。
* 所有记录均已获取由VicMap定义的2018年7月版现代物业地址、街道或区域信息。
* 本数据集提供了额外信息以支持结果精度评估，每条记录均包含数据采集各阶段所使用的原始数据。