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 17 February 2025 with data extracted on 17 December 2024.

This release is a full national data population for Version 1.1 of the Localities product, described by the Localities Product Guide v1.1 [Geoscape, 2023] .

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

Change Notifications

Locality product in Geopackage format

From the February 2025 release onwards Geoscape Localities will be provided in an additional format, Geopackage. This will result in a minor version increment, making the Localities version 1.1.

Updates

Name changes

No name changes to note.

New and Retired

New

New localities records:

locality_pid	locality_name	state
N/A	N/A	N/A

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

Retired

Retired localities records:

locality_pid	locality_name	state
N/A	N/A	N/A

'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
loc77743c1f4888	Koombooloomba	QLD	20	737	757
loc598a000bd1a7	Birdwood	SA	1	49	50
loc585f5c8ef22a	Isisford	QLD	1	9234	9235
loc98575a7ee35d	Forreston	SA	-1	37	36
loc2a274dcc84f4	Ilfracombe	QLD	-2	6584	6582
loc79b514dcd810	Glen Ruth	QLD	-22	777	755

'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.

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	STATISTIC	ACT	NSW	NT	OT	QLD	SA	TAS	VIC	WA	TOTAL
localities	Additional	1	851	0	0	168	71	47	119	188	1,445
	Retired	1	851	0	0	168	71	47	119	188	1,445
	Updated	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Total	140	4,610	312	6	3,304	1,898	783	2,973	1,752	15,778
	% Change	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%

References

[Geoscape, 2023]

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