Appendix I: MetadataΒΆ

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National Localities Metadata Statement

Metadata for the Metadata

  • Metadata Identifier: 9d3f2b6a-8c4e-4a7d-9e2b-7f6a3c8d1b24
  • Time:
    • Create Date: 2022-02-02T01:56:57.785613Z
    • Revision Date: 2025-06-18T06:30:35.152518Z
  • Responsible Party:
    • Individual: Michael Dixon
    • Organisation: Geoscape Australia
    • Position: Chief Data Officer
    • Telephone: +61 2 6260 9000
    • Delivery point: Unit 6, 113 Canberra Ave Griffith ACT 2603 Australia
  • Access, Use, Security:
  • Standard: ISO 19115-3
  • Language: English

Resource Metadata

  • Title: National Localities
  • Abstract: National Localities is a spatial representation of suburbs (urban) and localities (rural) defined by Australia's State and Territory governments, aggregated into a consistent, seamless national boundary layer. It supports nationwide identification of communities and is integral for addressing and postal distribution.
  • Purpose: The purpose of National Localities is to provide organisations with a national scale geospatial dataset of suburb and locality boundaries suitable for use at local and national scales, enabling broad application across commercial, government and research use cases and helping identify new suburb creation over time.
  • Responsible Party:
    • Organisation: Geoscape
    • Telephone: +61 2 6260 9000
    • Delivery point: Unit 6, 113 Canberra Ave Griffith ACT 2603 Australia
  • Access, Use, Security:
    • Legal Constraints: Geoscape Australia and its authorised partners license this dataset. Users must comply with the applicable licence terms and the Geoscape Copyright Notice and Disclaimer, available at geoscape.com.au/data-copyright-disclaimer/.
    • Security Constraints: None. This dataset is not subject to any security classification.
    • Use Limitations: Refer to the product guide available via docs.geoscape.com.au for data quality and related information.
    • Releasability: This dataset must not be distributed except in accordance with the terms of the licence under which it was accessed.
  • Extents
    • Metadata extent.
    • West/Min X: 96.00
    • East/Max X: 168.00
    • South/Min Y: -45.00
    • North/Max Y: -8.00
  • Reference System:
    • GDA2020 (EPSG:7844)
    • GDA94 (EPSG:4283)
    • Australian Height Datum (EPSG:5111)
  • Keywords:
    • National Localities
    • National Localities datasets
    • National Localities file
  • Distribution:

      • This dataset is available from Geoscape Australia.

    • Format/s:
      • ESRI Shapefile
      • Mapinfo TAB
      • GeoJSON
      • ESRI File Geodatabase
      • OGC GeoPackage
  • Status: completed
  • Lineage:

      • Statement:

      National Localities is created by processing suburb and locality boundary data sourced from each State and Territory. Jurisdictional source attributes are mapped and standardised into a coherent national definition, and the supplied geometries are cleaned and processed to produce a topologically consistent national polygon layer. Geoscape also generates and integrates additional attributes to better support jurisdictional information and improve usability, and the dataset is updated and released regularly, with defined integration/linkages to other Geoscape products including G-NAF, National Buildings, National Local Government Areas, National Postcode Boundaries and Addressing Service. Production includes geometry validity checks (e.g., resolving self-intersections, spikes/bow-ties, duplicate vertices, null/multipart geometries, and self-contacts) and resolving gaps/overlaps within each State/Territory for polygons of the same locality class, while retaining valid holes (e.g., lakes/rivers) where present in source data.

    • Additional Documentation
      • Title: National Localities Product Description
      • Alternate Title: National Localities Product Guide
      • Edition: 1.1
      • Presentation Format: documentDigital
      • Linkage: https://docs.geoscape.com.au/projects/localities_guide/en/stable/index.html
      • Name: National Localities Product Description
      • Description: Product Description of the current version of the National Localities Product.
      • Function: information
  • Maintenace and Update Frequency: quarterly