Pre-Release Report

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Overview

Release Date

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

Monday, 30 September 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

-

Y

Y

Solar

-

-

-

Planning

-

-

-

Trees

-

-

-

Urban Surface Cover

-

-

-

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)

ACT

Australian Captial Territory

496

NSW

Albury City Council

78

NSW

Bathurst Regional Council

58

NSW

Bayside Council

51

NSW

Blacktown City Council

124

NSW

Blue Mountains City Council

23

NSW

Burwood Council

7

NSW

Byron Shire Council

69

NSW

Camden Council

80

NSW

Campbelltown City Council

41

NSW

Canterbury-Bankstown Council

109

NSW

City of Canada Bay Council

20

NSW

City of Parramatta Council

84

NSW

Council of the City of Sydney

26

NSW

Cumberland Council

69

NSW

Dubbo Regional Council

92

NSW

Fairfield City Council

28

NSW

Georges River Council

36

NSW

Hawkesbury City Council

201

NSW

Inner West Council

35

NSW

Ku-ring-gai Council

72

NSW

Lane Cove Municipal Council

10

NSW

Lithgow City Council

52

NSW

Liverpool City Council

56

NSW

Mosman Municipal Council

9

NSW

North Sydney Council

10

NSW

Northern Beaches Council

71

NSW

Orange City Council

57

NSW

Penrith City Council

124

NSW

Port Macquarie-Hastings Council

51

NSW

Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council

76

NSW

Randwick City Council

36

NSW

Ryde City Council

41

NSW

Strathfield Municipal Council

14

NSW

Sutherland Shire Council

2

NSW

The Council of the Municipality of Hunters Hill

6

NSW

The Council of the Shire of Hornsby

175

NSW

The Hills Shire Council

185

NSW

Tweed Shire Council

255

NSW

Unincorporated - Sydney Harbour Area

32

NSW

Waverley Council

9

NSW

Willoughby City Council

22

NSW

Woollahra Municipal Council

12

NSW

Yass Valley Council

2

QLD

Brisbane City

328

QLD

Bundaberg Regional

208

QLD

Gold Coast City

445

QLD

Moreton Bay City

3

QLD

Noosa Shire

53

QLD

Redland City

22

QLD

Scenic Rim Regional

6

QLD

Sunshine Coast Regional

18

VIC

Baw Baw Shire

66

VIC

Benalla Rural City

28

VIC

Golden Plains Shire

5

VIC

Greater Geelong City

265

VIC

Latrobe City

77

VIC

Surf Coast Shire

3

VIC

Wangaratta Rural City

32

VIC

Wodonga City

61

Total

4726

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 contributors to G-NAF.

Commencing with the September 2024 release, we will extend this association to all address contributors used in G-NAF. The significant benefit of this enhancement will be the improved alignment of linked address data with the G-NAF dataset. This will result in improved relationships, in particular, the inclusion of more secondary addresses. The address relationships in the ‘building_address’ table will increase by approximately 8.5 million records. It is expected that the ‘solar_address’ and ‘solar_solar_address’ tables will see a similar count increase.

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

Buildings products in Geopackage format

From the September 2024 release onwards, ‘Geoscape Buildings’, ‘Geoscape Building - Footprints’ and ‘Geoscape Building - Heights and Roofs’ will be available in Geopackage format.

Buildings Centroid latitude and longitude in GDA2020

Geoscape has improved the positioning of all centroid_longitude and centroid_latitude values within the buildings layer of Geoscape Buildings in the GDA2020 product packages. This change does not impact the data model of the product or values in the GDA94 packages.