Localities

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Introduction

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 ).

Document Purpose

This document provides a description of the issues, changes, features, updates and statistics relating to the applicable Localities release. This document should be read in conjunction with the current Localities Product Guide.

References

Localities Product Guide Version 1.0 Geoscape Data ( www.geoscape.com.au/data/administrative-boundaries/ )

Contact

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Overview

Release Summary

This product was released to customers on 20 November 2023 with data extracted on 29 September 2023.

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

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

Change Notifications

ESRI Shapefile width increase

Commencing with the February 2024 release, the width of numeric fields within Esri Shapefiles will increase by one. This is due to a bug fix in our packaging application. This change only impacts Shapefile metadata, the values and precision remain unchanged.

New data download portal

We’re pleased to announce the launch of our new customer collaboration portal called Geoscape Hub ( https://hub.geoscape.com.au ).

Geoscape Hub brings the experience for both our dataset and API customers together into one unified platform.

A notification announcing the launch of Geoscape Hub, with instructions on how to access and use the new portal, was sent out to data customers on 13 September. If you did not receive this important communication, please contact our Support team (support@geoscape.com.au).

From 13 September, all users navigating to the ‘Datasets’ page in geoscape.app have been redirected to Geoscape Hub.

Removal of the ‘Documents’ folder from data packages

From November 2023, Geoscape will be progressively moving product descriptions, guides and reports online to https://docs.geoscape.com.au

Commencing with the May 2024 release, data packages will no longer include the Documents folder.

Updates

New and Retired

  • 1 locality has been retired in NSW:

    • Back Creek (locality_pid = ‘loc365c9229b366’). The area of this locality was amalgamated into the locality of Mongarlowe (locality_pid ‘loc1db45efffad9’).

  • The locality of Balmoral (locality_pid = ‘loc11112536618e’) has had a name change to ‘Balmoral Village’. This name change has been applied by the jurisdiction to differentiate two localities in NSW that previously had the same name of ‘Balmoral’. The locality_pid for this locality has been retained.

Spatial Changes

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

locality_pid

locality_name

state

Difference (km2)

Old (km2)

New (km2)

loc7335597ec06b

Gurindji

NT

7,250

32,383

39,633

loc7a211879023a

Alpha

QLD

389

12,213

12,602

loc7da2e90022aa

Laglan

QLD

150

3,020

3,170

loc762c29a48434

Hawkwood

QLD

51

1,186

1,237

locc7564e4ad96d

Keera

NSW

45

318

363

locdb8620eee890

Blackall

QLD

44

16,557

16,601

loc1db45efffad9

Mongarlowe

NSW

40

35

75

loce4e670f7e6e6

Torrens Creek

QLD

29

6,077

6,106

loc33f8ee3bf8da

Aramac

QLD

28

15,220

15,248

loc6b745fb4c112

Muttaburra

QLD

24

6,289

6,313

loc1ecc8fee2ed1

Boggabilla

NSW

17

1,355

1,372

loc4ca9d6f6c8fd

Pallamallawa

NSW

17

497

514

locfa3a3309275c

Clermont

QLD

14

5,145

5,159

locbffbb22afe81

Yallaroi

NSW

14

261

275

loc2a274dcc84f4

Ilfracombe

QLD

10

6,574

6,584

loc0ac67daeeaa2

Kimbolton

WA

8

6,906

6,914

loce4f495301f73

Balfours Peak

NSW

5

122

127

loc455bbf2f3ebf

Dinoga

NSW

4

305

309

loc0f6834982039

Willows

QLD

4

1,210

1,214

loc0a4dd2078c83

Calliope

QLD

3

183

186

locd0101180284c

Carnarvon Park

QLD

3

2,392

2,395

loc03c2ec5dcf24

Mantuan Downs

QLD

3

2,412

2,415

locb297a954603e

Tanami East

NT

2

52,844

52,846

locb18b44e7be76

Glenning Valley

NSW

1

6

7

loc520848f8eea4

Berkeley Vale

NSW

-1

6

5

loc2189d52b1f00

Buckland

QLD

-1

1,771

1,770

loc8671a7a4310d

Nandowrie

QLD

-1

697

696

locabf3176ecfa2

Elgin

QLD

-2

2,340

2,338

locb04d6671751d

Peak Vale

QLD

-2

819

817

loc53be93fc501d

Coffin Bay

SA

-3

361

358

locd7e01f411266

Talandji

WA

-3

5,705

5,702

loca0f7a755c487

Cobbadah

NSW

-4

245

241

loc7e95f1561f01

Wooderson

QLD

-4

296

292

loc701d68a6c6d0

Delungra

NSW

-5

663

658

locf5b5670c1f64

Barcaldine

QLD

-10

10,012

10,002

loc3808fea12be5

Blue Nobby

NSW

-13

124

111

loc89aba4ec79e1

Tulloona

NSW

-16

363

347

loc353c764ec3ee

Crooble

NSW

-17

240

223

loc8278f742b227

Exmouth Gulf

WA

-19

4,928

4,909

locb15f4b77277d

Gulf Creek

NSW

-20

176

156

locb8bc91c4b9c7

Longreach

QLD

-25

23,495

23,470

locb40e996092da

Bundarra

NSW

-26

995

969

loc0015d417b77d

Lochington

QLD

-46

4,456

4,410

loc9fa84ede0382

Cheltenham

QLD

-51

446

395

loc13104c56055a

Pentland

QLD

-57

14,977

14,920

loc338646445555

Quetta

QLD

-177

1,301

1,124

loc8139ce942ef2

Jericho

QLD

-378

9,648

9,270

loc93a1abde8231

Lajamanu

NT

-7,250

7,258

8

Other Updates

There were no other updates.

Issues

New Issues

No new issues.

Resolved Issues

No resolved issues to note.

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 NAME

ACT

NSW

NT

OT

QLD

SA

TAS

VIC

WA

TOTAL

localities

Additional

0

342

10

0

243

786

28

0

306

1,715

Retired

0

343

10

0

243

786

28

0

306

1,716

Updated

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Total

140

4,606

312

6

3,305

1,897

783

2,973

1,752

15,774

% Change

0.00%

-0.02%

0.00%

0.00%

0.00%

0.00%

0.00%

0.00%

0.00%

-0.01%