Product Version

1.2

  • Major Version: 1

  • Minor Version: 2

Product Version Management

Versioning is managed through incrementing when there is a change to the product schema or a significant change in data population, these are described further below:

  • A schema change can affect a major or minor increment to the versioning.

    • Additive changes (changes that won’t break customers’ ability to work with the data) will be incremented with a minor version increment, an example is the addition of a new attribute.

    • Removal of attributes or changing the structure of the schema will enact a major change to identify that this requires the attention of all customers and partners.

  • Where a significant geography of Australia either has a new population of data for an attribute or is populated from a much higher quality source a minor increment will be applied to the product version.

Therefore, the major and minor version will not increment with every data update. Published releases will have a name e.g. ‘May 2025’ and will reference a version of the product e.g. ‘1.0’.

Overview

National Property is a seamless national representation of Australia’s property parcels. A property is an area of land recognised by the Local Government (or equivalent agency in the ACT) as a singularly valued/rateable entity. The digital property boundaries and their legal identifiers have been derived from the relevant bodies from each Australian State and Territory. It may comprise one or more cadastral parcels or part of a parcel with boundaries not needing to align between the two (although commonly this is the case). Where the property is comprised of multiple parcels, the parcels do not have to be contiguous.

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National Property is designed to meet the needs of organisations that require a geospatial representation of Australia’s property boundaries at both a local and broad scale. The attribution of records provided within National Property, and its relationship to other Geoscape datasets such as National Cadastre, allows for the application of the data across a wide range of commercial, government and research uses. Geoscape Australia welcomes your feedback on the National Property product. We also publish regular updates on the development of our products on the Geoscape website ( www.geoscape.com.au ).