Localities

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Overview

Localities is a spatial representation of suburbs and localities defined by the State and Territory governments of Australia. Localities aggregates the representations unique to each jurisdiction into a consistent seamless representation of the suburbs and localities of Australia. Geoscape welcomes your feedback on the Localities product. We also publish regular product development updates on our website ( www.geoscape.com.au ).

Release Summary

This product was released to customers on 19 August 2024 with data extracted on 19 June 2024.

Locality changes not included in this release

Geoscape is aware of locality changes that occurred after our cutoff period for extracting Localities. These changes will be included in the November 2024 release.

  • NT: Locality name change of ‘Beswick’ to ‘Wugularr’.

  • NT: Locality name change of ‘Pigeon Hole’ to ‘Nitjpurru’.

  • NSW: Boundary alignment change between ‘Razorback’ and ‘Mount Hunter’.

This release is a full national data population for Version 1.0 of the Localities product, described by the Localities Product Guide v1.0 [Geoscape, 2023] .

Any issues that have been identified for this release are described in the Issues section.

Change Notifications

No change notifications.

Updates

New and Retired

New

New localities records:

locality_pid

locality_name

state

locyrKBCfawRgZv

Talwood

QLD

'N/A' indicates that no records of this type exist

Retired

Retired localities records:

locality_pid

locality_name

state

locbce121c30bad

North Talwood

QLD

loc9e5f7c239759

South Talwood

QLD

'N/A' indicates that no records of this type exist

Spatial Changes

Spatial changes (area) greater than 1 km2 are shown below:

locality_pid

locality_name

state

Difference_SQKM

Old_SQKM

New_SQKM

loc79b514dcd810

Glen Ruth

QLD

20

757

777

locca51a3319801

Paluma

QLD

4

2295

2299

loc7a211879023a

Alpha

QLD

3

12602

12605

loce8ac0861ad6d

Bridgenorth

TAS

3

50

53

loc12fa0255daae

Hillvue

NSW

2

12

14

loc3e12281a1c4d

Stokes

QLD

2

11720

11722

loc1e24228ac15b

Balranald

NSW

1

5204

5205

loc315f84c2d273

Dimbulah

QLD

1

703

704

loc9c708dd76558

Koonamore

SA

1

1243

1244

locf3adf68ac60c

Rapid Bay

SA

1

16

17

loc6adde9bfde10

Claraville

QLD

-1

7114

7113

loc449dec75a6f4

Delamere

SA

-1

48

47

loc36795067fbc0

Irvinebank

QLD

-1

740

739

loc03c2ec5dcf24

Mantuan Downs

QLD

-1

2415

2414

loc72f392299a0c

Melton Station

SA

-1

762

761

loc74ef5b752de7

Euston

NSW

-2

3348

3346

loc0015d417b77d

Lochington

QLD

-2

4410

4408

loc9c2ba0dfbf11

Rosevears

TAS

-2

12

10

loc33d9c1bc9972

Warral

NSW

-2

52

50

loc0581333b7970

Valley of Lagoons

QLD

-5

4501

4496

loc77743c1f4888

Koombooloomba

QLD

-20

757

737

'N/A' indicates that no records of this type exist

Other Updates

There were no other updates.

Issues

New Issues

No new issues.

Resolved Issues

No resolved issues.

Known Issues

Un-enclosed gap between Localities in NT

There is one un-enclosed gap present in the Localities data in NT. These gaps are not valid and do not represent rivers. Below, the un-enclosed gaps can be seen between polygons when they are dissolved together.

Image of Un-enclosed gaps between Localities in NT

ACT Localities Geodatabase File Name Issue

There is a known issue with QGIS reading the act_localities Geodatabase file. This issue is related to the file name, so simply changing it (e.g. to ‘act_locality.gdb’) will allow it to be opened in QGIS.

Future Considerations

This section outlines enhancements or changes under consideration, but not planned into a specific release. For further details on future initiatives, please contact Geoscape Support.

Annex A – Release Counts

Additional, retired and total Localities counts and the percent change to the previous release have been listed in the table below.

TABLE

ACT

NSW

NT

OT

QLD

SA

TAS

VIC

WA

TOTAL

localities

Additional

0

276

0

0

237

74

116

393

294

1,390

Retired

0

276

0

0

238

74

116

393

294

1,391

Updated

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Total

140

4,615

312

6

3,304

1,898

783

2,973

1,752

15,783

% Change

0.00%

0.00%

0.00%

0.00%

-0.03%

0.00%

0.00%

0.00%

0.00%

-0.01%

References

[Geoscape, 2023]

Geoscape. Localities product guide. 2023. URL: https://docs.geoscape.com.au/projects/localities_guide/en/stable/.