Pre-Release Report

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Overview

Release Date

The June 2024 release of Geoscape datasets is scheduled to be published on:

Thursday, 27 June 2024

Summary of Product Changes

Data Model Changes

Changes to the structure of the dataset – such as new tables, changed fields, different dependencies etc.

Domain Values/Field Definition Changes

Changes to the domain or field definitions within the dataset.

Significant Production Changes

Processing changes or issues that will impact on the use or release of the dataset.

Data Model Changes

Domain Values/Field Definition Changes

Significant Production Changes

Buildings

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Planning

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Trees

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Urban Surface Cover

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Solar

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Product Change Details

Note

The information below is current at the time this report was published. There is a possibility the final release may contain additional changes. These will be described in the associated release report.

Coverage Updates for Buildings, Solar, Trees and Urban Surface Cover

State

Location

Urban Area (km2)

NSW

Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council

76

NSW

Yass Valley Council

2

QLD

Brisbane City

360

QLD

Cairns Regional

151

QLD

Ipswich City

268

QLD

Logan City

81

QLD

Mackay Regional

82

QLD

Moreton Bay City

232

QLD

Redland City

65

QLD

Townsville City

197

SA

Adelaide Hills Council

4

SA

Alexandrina Council

24

SA

Campbelltown City Council

21

SA

City of Adelaide

15

SA

City of Burnside

25

SA

City of Charles Sturt

48

SA

City of Holdfast Bay

14

SA

City of Marion

56

SA

City of Mitcham

55

SA

City of Onkaparinga

198

SA

City of Port Adelaide Enfield

23

SA

City of Prospect

8

SA

City of Unley

14

SA

City of Victor Harbor

24

SA

City of West Torrens

37

SA

Mount Barker District Council

32

SA

The City of Norwood Payneham and St Peters

15

SA

The Corporation of the Town of Walkerville

4

WA

City of Busselton

98

Total

2,229

Inclusion of addresses from all G-NAF suppliers within building_address and solar_address tables

Currently, the Buildings and Solar products are associated with a subset of addresses from the Geocoded National Address File (G-NAF). The addresses linked to relate to a select group of data suppliers to G-NAF.

Commencing with the September 2024 release, we intend to extend this association to all address suppliers used in G-NAF. The significant benefit of this enhancement will be the improved alignment of linked address data with the G-NAF dataset which will result in improved relationships, with the most significant improvement being the inclusion of more secondary addresses. The address relationships in the 'building_address' table will increase by approximately 7.5 million records (~20%). It is expected that the 'solar_address' and 'solar_solar_address' tables will see a similar count increase.

In the upcoming June 2024 release, we will demonstrate the increased association by providing a supplemental table alongside the Buildings product named 'building_address_additional' containing the additional address relationships. For the June 2024 release the 'building_address' table will not include the additional addresses.

The additional table will not be provided in the following, September 2024 release, as additional records will be incorporated into the standard 'building_address' table.

For clarification or more information on this improvement please contact support@geoscape.com.au.

Documentation

From the June 2024 release, the ‘Documents’ folder will no longer be provided in the data packages. Product Release Reports, Guides and Descriptions are available via https://docs.geoscape.com.au/