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 20 May 2024 with data extracted on 20 March 2024.

  • 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

Removal of the ‘Documents’ folder from data packages

Geoscape has moved product descriptions, guides and reports online to https://docs.geoscape.com.au From this release onwards, data packages will no longer include the ‘Documents’ folder.

Updates

New and Retired

New

There were no new Localities this release.

Retired

There were no Localities retired this release.

Spatial Changes

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

locality_pid

locality_name

state

Difference_SQKM

Old_SQKM

New_SQKM

locc3efd1218052

Stormlea

TAS

7

15

22

loc318d1aea2cf7

Minburra Station

SA

6

895

901

loc61d25052ff0b

Consuelo

QLD

5

1,675

1,680

loc72f392299a0c

Melton Station

SA

3

759

762

loceb7edf2c2ec4

Mount Moffatt

QLD

2

2,119

2,121

loccbf0d092f57d

Torrita

VIC

2

244

246

locf477ba2a6e46

Whitemark

TAS

2

106

108

loc302b69429487

Lower Wonga

QLD

1

98

99

loc800cb9db47a6

Ungarra

SA

1

305

306

loc761fbb546810

Lipson

SA

-1

272

271

loce842e92b7dc9

Woolooga

QLD

-1

250

249

loc19d430809859

Memana

TAS

-2

337

335

loc9334200cafd2

Mount Victor Station

SA

-2

1,092

1,090

loc34fe792d549e

Wealwandangie

QLD

-2

1,048

1,046

locdcd3e1a3e73f

Winnininnie

SA

-2

368

366

locd0101180284c

Carnarvon Park

QLD

-4

2,399

2,395

loc9c708dd76558

Koonamore

SA

-6

1,249

1,243

locbb32e1449ca9

Port Arthur

TAS

-7

56

49

Other Updates

There were no other updates.

Issues

New Issues

No new issues this release.

Resolved Issues

South Australia

The missing Polygons have been found and the Supplier Data issues have been resolved for this release.

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

222

0

0

256

418

260

569

244

1,969

Retired

0

222

0

0

256

417

260

569

244

1,968

Updated

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Total

140

4,615

312

6

3,305

1,898

783

2,973

1,752

15,784

% Change

0.00%

0.00%

0.00%

0.00%

0.00%

0.05%

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/.