A dataset containing the locations of Australian tourism regions, their geographic coordinates, and the nearest Bureau of Meteorology weather station. Each region is assigned a unique identifier for linking to other tourism datasets.
Format
A tibble with 2,353 rows and 7 variables: * **state**: Australian state or territory abbreviation. * **region**: Name of the tourism region. Tourism regions are defined by Tourism Research Australia and generally formed through the aggregation of Statistical Area Level 2 (SA2) geographies. * **sa2**: Name of the SA2 area. * **lon**: Longitude of the SA2 representative point (WGS84). * **lat**: Latitude of the SA2 representative point (WGS84). * **ws_id**: Identifier of the nearest Bureau of Meteorology weather station to the SA2 area. * **sa2_code_tra**: Character SA2 code used by Tourism Research Australia. Join this field to the identically named field in the detailed tourism datasets after harmonising its type.
Details
Coordinates for each SA2 are intended to represent a central location within the area (e.g., polygon centroid). The nearest weather station is determined using great-circle distance calculations based on the Bureau of Meteorology's official station list.
References
Tourism Research Australia: https://www.tra.gov.au Australian Bureau of Meteorology.
Examples
data(tourism_region)
head(tourism_region)
#> # A tibble: 6 × 7
#> state region sa2 lon lat ws_id sa2_code_tra
#> <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 ACT Canberra ACT - South West 149. -35.4 949250-99999 81140
#> 2 ACT Canberra Acton 145. -37.9 948650-99999 81049
#> 3 ACT Canberra Ainslie 149. -35.3 949260-99999 81050
#> 4 ACT Canberra Amaroo 149. -35.2 949260-99999 81034
#> 5 ACT Canberra Aranda 146. -16.8 942870-99999 81001
#> 6 ACT Canberra Banks 149. -35.5 949250-99999 81071