Pre-Release Report

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Overview

Release Date

The June 2025 release of Geoscape datasets is scheduled to be published on:

Monday, 30 June 2025

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	-	-	-
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.

WA Property Enhancement

We’ve enhanced the logic used to associate Property with Cadastre in WA. As a result, around 16,000 additional records have been added to the WA property_cad table. This change has resulted in the inclusion of ~39,000 additional Property polygons across the state.

Surface Cover and Trees

A bug has been found in the update process for the GDA2020 version of Surface Cover and Trees. This has led to rasters not being updated consistently between the GDA94 and GDA2020 versions. This issue has been resolved and for this release all affected GDA2020 rasters have been updated and will now align with their GDA94 counterpart.

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

State	Location	Urban Area (km2)
NSW	Shoalhaven City Council	43
NT	Alice Springs Municipality	54
QLD	Lockyer Valley Regional	3
QLD	Toowoomba Regional	164
SA	The Corporation of the City of Whyalla	26
SA	UIA Whyalla	9
VIC	Banyule City	24
VIC	Bayside City	15
VIC	Boroondara City	60
VIC	Brimbank City	73
VIC	Darebin City	22
VIC	Glen Eira City	37
VIC	Greater Dandenong City	1
VIC	Greater Geelong City	59
VIC	Hobsons Bay City	63
VIC	Hume City	13
VIC	Kingston City	4
VIC	Knox City	54
VIC	Macedon Ranges Shire	411
VIC	Manningham City	88
VIC	Maribyrnong City	31
VIC	Maroondah City	28
VIC	Melbourne City	38
VIC	Melton City	32
VIC	Merri-Bek City	20
VIC	Mitchell Shire	217
VIC	Monash City	81
VIC	Moonee Valley City	32
VIC	Moorabool Shire	10
VIC	Nillumbik Shire	4
VIC	Port Phillip City	21
VIC	Stonnington City	26
VIC	Whitehorse City	64
VIC	Whittlesea City	232
VIC	Wyndham City	447
VIC	Yarra City	20
WA	City of Albany	48
WA	City of Armadale	447
WA	City of Bayswater	35
WA	City of Belmont	40
WA	City of Canning	65
WA	City of Cockburn	150
WA	City of Fremantle	20
WA	City of Gosnells	99
WA	City of Joondalup	99
WA	City of Kalamunda	278
WA	City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder	40
WA	City of Kwinana	120
WA	City of Mandurah	92
WA	City of Melville	53
WA	City of Nedlands	20
WA	City of Perth	20
WA	City of Rockingham	212
WA	City of South Perth	20
WA	City of Stirling	105
WA	City of Subiaco	6
WA	City of Swan	913
WA	City of Vincent	11
WA	City of Wanneroo	249
WA	Shire of Beverley	4
WA	Shire of Boddington	6
WA	Shire of Chittering	221
WA	Shire of Gingin	1
WA	Shire of Mundaring	335
WA	Shire of Murray	462
WA	Shire of Northam	6
WA	Shire of Peppermint Grove	1
WA	Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale	559
WA	Shire of Toodyay	64
WA	Shire of Wandering	99
WA	Town of Bassendean	10
WA	Town of Cambridge	22
WA	Town of Claremont	5
WA	Town of Cottesloe	4
WA	Town of East Fremantle	4
WA	Town of Mosman Park	4
WA	Town of Victoria Park	18
Total		7,493