Product Version

1.2

  • Major Version: 1

  • Minor Version: 2

Product Version Management

Versioning is managed through incrementing when there is a change to the product schema or a significant change in data population, these are described further below:

  • A schema change can affect a major or minor increment to the versioning.

    • Additive changes (changes that won’t break customers’ ability to work with the data) will be incremented with a minor version increment, an example is the addition of a new attribute.

    • Removal of attributes or changing the structure of the schema will enact a major change to identify that this requires the attention of all customers and partners.

  • Where a significant geography of Australia either has a new population of data for an attribute or is populated from a much higher quality source a minor increment will be applied to the product version.

Therefore, the major and minor version will not increment with every data update. Published releases will have a name e.g. ‘May 2025’ and will reference a version of the product e.g. ‘1.0’.

Overview

National Localities is a spatial representation of suburbs (urban) and localities (rural) defined by the State and Territory governments of Australia. They represent distinct communities across the country. National Localities aggregates the representations unique to each jurisdiction into a consistent, seamless representation of suburb and locality boundaries across Australia. Localities are integral for addressing and postal distribution purposes.

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National Localities is designed to meet the needs of organisations that require a geospatial representation of suburb and locality boundaries at both a local and national scale. The attribution provided within National Localities allows for the application of the data across a wide range of commercial, government and research uses. National Localities can also be used to identify the creation of new suburbs. Geoscape Australia welcomes your feedback on our National Localities product. We also publish regular updates on the development of our products on the Geoscape website (www.geoscape.com.au).