Appendix I: MetadataΒΆ

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National Property Metadata Statement

Metadata for the Metadata

  • Metadata Identifier: e4a7c9d2-5f8b-4b3e-8a6d-2c9f1b7e4a53
  • Time:
    • Create Date: 2022-02-02T01:56:57.785613Z
    • Revision Date: 2025-06-18T06:30:35.152518Z
  • Responsible Party:
    • Individual: Michael Dixon
    • Organisation: Geoscape Australia
    • Position: Chief Data Officer
    • Telephone: +61 2 6260 9000
    • Delivery point: Unit 6, 113 Canberra Ave Griffith ACT 2603 Australia
  • Access, Use, Security:
  • Standard: ISO 19115-3
  • Language: English

Resource Metadata

  • Title: National Property
  • Abstract: National Property is a seamless national geospatial representation of Australia's property parcels-land areas recognised by local government (or the ACT equivalent) as a single valued/rateable entity-derived from State and Territory sources and supplied with digital boundaries and legal identifiers.
  • Purpose: To provide organisations with consistent, national-scale property boundary and identifier data (including jurisdictional contributor IDs for valuation/rates use) that supports analysis and integration with related datasets such as National Cadastre, G-NAF and Buildings for commercial, government and research applications.
  • Responsible Party:
    • Organisation: Geoscape
    • Telephone: +61 2 6260 9000
    • Delivery point: Unit 6, 113 Canberra Ave Griffith ACT 2603 Australia
  • Access, Use, Security:
    • Legal Constraints: Geoscape Australia and its authorised partners license this dataset. Users must comply with the applicable licence terms and the Geoscape Copyright Notice and Disclaimer, available at geoscape.com.au/data-copyright-disclaimer/.
    • Security Constraints: None. This dataset is not subject to any security classification.
    • Use Limitations: Refer to the product guide available via docs.geoscape.com.au for data quality and related information.
    • Releasability: This dataset must not be distributed except in accordance with the terms of the licence under which it was accessed.
  • Extents
    • Metadata extent.
    • West/Min X: 100.00
    • East/Max X: 160.00
    • South/Min Y: -44.00
    • North/Max Y: -9.00
  • Reference System:
    • GDA2020 (EPSG:7844)
    • GDA94 (EPSG:4283)
    • Australian Height Datum (EPSG:5111)
  • Keywords:
    • National Property
    • National Property datasets
    • National Property file
  • Distribution:

      • This dataset is available from Geoscape Australia.

    • Format/s:
      • ESRI Shapefile
      • Mapinfo TAB
      • GeoJSON
      • ESRI File Geodatabase
      • OGC GeoPackage
  • Status: completed
  • Lineage:

      • Statement:

      National Property is produced by processing property (valuation/rates) data sourced from each Australian State and Territory, then mapping and standardising jurisdictional attributes into a consistent national definition. The associated geometries are cleaned and processed to produce a topologically consistent national layer of property boundaries. Each record represents the overall coverage of a single rateable property and includes a Contributor ID (the jurisdiction's identifier) to support linkage back to valuation/rates systems. In production, Geoscape creates a single property representation by combining land valuation/rates information with National Cadastre and, where a property comprises multiple cadastral parcels, performing a union of relevant cadastre boundaries to preserve the outer boundary accuracy as supplied by jurisdictions. The dataset is then quality-controlled through geometry validity checks (e.g., resolving self-intersections, spikes/bow-ties, duplicate vertices, null/multipart geometries, and some minor overlaps in base property), and is continuously maintained with releases on a monthly schedule.

    • Additional Documentation
      • Title: National Property Product Description
      • Alternate Title: National Property Product Guide
      • Edition: 1.1
      • Presentation Format: documentDigital
      • Linkage: https://docs.geoscape.com.au/projects/property_guide/en/stable/index.html
      • Name: National Property Product Description
      • Description: Product Description of the current version of the Geoscape National Property Product.
      • Function: information
  • Maintenace and Update Frequency: monthly