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 February 2024 with data extracted on 11 December 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 [Geoscape, 2023] .

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

Change Notifications

Esri Shapefile width increase - Cancelled

In the previous release report, we mentioned that the width of numeric fields within Esri Shapefiles would increase by one for this current release. A recent bug fix in our packaging application has been applied to make this change not necessary. No change to Shapefile field widths has been applied for this release.

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

New

locality_pid

locality_name

state

locv_s5aA8S9kjx

Beloon

NSW

locsunBisn36NNo

Bimlow

NSW

locwEs8e1LHcr0K

Bindook

NSW

locExjZCLPLeW12

Brereton

NSW

locRF6pK3W0llNu

Burragorang Valley

NSW

locin9sLkCvD5n8

Jooriland

NSW

locPQtj9Px7WB_i

Kedumba

NSW

locz2D6DO54hrbm

Kowmung

NSW

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

locc80f88daf9b5

Prairie

QLD

5

8322

8327

locd0101180284c

Carnarvon Park

QLD

4

2395

2399

loc790fa55d1c0a

Adavale

QLD

1

21355

21356

locaeac3e4533c8

Gundy

NSW

1

74

75

loc0c3b031544d6

Belltrees

NSW

-1

170

169

locdb8620eee890

Blackall

QLD

-1

16601

16600

loc61d25052ff0b

Consuelo

QLD

-1

1676

1675

locc99784ec4ad6

Theresa Creek

QLD

-1

628

627

loca34b3c80ede8

Rewan

QLD

-3

2069

2066

loc755c0c798447

Porcupine

QLD

-5

8318

8313

loc34f6d66f6a8d

Blue Mountains National Park

NSW

-1420

2478

1058

Other Updates

There were no other updates.

Issues

New Issues

South Australia

There was no update to the South Australian localities in this release due to missing polygons within the latest dataset supplied by the jurisdiction. We are working with the jurisdiction to resolve this issue in a future release.

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

23

268

14

0

169

0

0

733

173

1,380

Retired

23

259

14

0

169

0

0

733

173

1,371

Updated

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Total

140

4,615

312

6

3,305

1,897

783

2,973

1,752

15,783

% Change

0.00%

0.20%

0.00%

0.00%

0.00%

0.00%

0.00%

0.00%

0.00%

0.06%

References

[Geoscape, 2023]

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