Change Notification

Enhancements

Retirement of addresses in G-NAF

As part of the process of continual improvement of G-NAF, some 84,200 addresses have been retired in the November 2024 release of G-NAF.

The August 2024 Release Report provided forward notification of this large address retirement.

The retired addresses are considered to be either:

  • historical addresses that have been replaced by other addresses or

  • “infill” addresses.

(“Infill” addresses are addresses created by contributors to complete a street number sequence, however, analysis indicates they are not physical addresses (i.e. there is no property to which they relate).

The criteria used to identify these addresses are the same as those used over the last 15 months, although this resulted in much smaller numbers being retired than in this release.

Of the retired addresses in the November 2024 release:

  • 78% of these addresses were at street-locality level,

  • 22% were gap-geocoded addresses,

  • 99.7% were supplied by a single contributor, and

  • 49% of the addresses were created in G-NAF in the first year of its initial release in March 2004.

As in previous updates, these retired addresses will remain in G-NAF with a confidence of -1.

Examples of some instances where addresses have been retired are provided below.

New Localities in G-NAF

In the November 2024 release of G-NAF, there have been some changes to the localities in New South Wales and the Northern Territory.

NSW

In New South Wales, the locality of BLUE MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK has been retired and replaced by 13 new localities along with amendments to adjoining locality boundaries.

The new localities are: BIRRABANG, BLUE LABYRINTH, BURRAMOKO, CARMARTHEN, GOVETTS, INGAR, JAMISON VALLEY, KARIWOGA, MASSIF RIDGE, MOUNT PORTAL, NARROW NECK, ROCKLILY RIDGE and TESSELATE HILL.

NT

In the Northern Territory, the localities of BESWICK and PIGEON HOLE have been replaced with WUGULARR and NITJPURRU respectively.

There were 79 active addresses in BESWICK in the August 2024 release and these will be retired (confidence = -1) in the November release and replaced with active addresses in the locality of WUGULARR.

There are currently no addresses within PIGEON HOLE / NITJPURRU in G-NAF.

Notification of Change

Removal of the ‘Documents’ folder from data packages

Geoscape has moved product descriptions, guides and reports online to https://docs.geoscape.com.au

Data packages no longer include the ‘Documents’ folder.