Wards

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Overview

Wards is a spatial representation of the gazetted ward districts, which are a subset of Local Government Area boundaries defined by State and Territory governments. Wards represent distinct areas within a local government area that relate to the election of councillors for the related local government. Wards aggregates the representations unique to each jurisdiction into a consistent seamless representation of the wards of Australia. Geoscape welcomes your feedback on the Wards product. We also publish regular product development updates on our website ( www.geoscape.com.au ).

Release Summary

This product was released to customers on 20 November 2023 with data extracted on 13 November 2023.

• This release is a full national data population for Version 1.0 of the Wards product, described by Wards 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

New

ward_pid	ward_name	lga_pid	state
wad3_AsLjgZ5Zbv	Ashburton - Tablelands Ward	lga229c15cd02b0	WA
wadmiJsGFoBUOGA	Central Ward	lga7d1ac9e6f9f2	WA
wadpaCkNeoSsoRu	Central Ward	lgab3eac047a70e	WA
wadt2xCk1fW7geZ	Coastal Ward	lga7d1ac9e6f9f2	WA
wadzdT9bnOeDzrg	Rural Ward	lga82fa96c43da5	WA
wad7vWwDz9YpiSj	Urban Ward	lga82fa96c43da5	WA

Retired

ward_pid	ward_name	lga_pid	state
wad528e1bdc2308	Ashburton Ward	lga229c15cd02b0	WA
wad1f2c28d707e3	Beaconsfield Ward	lga7d1ac9e6f9f2	WA
wade9e100941155	Benjinup Ward	lga6865b59a3293	WA
wadf30e6ec5107b	Boyup Brook Ward	lga6865b59a3293	WA
wad1462c78162d3	Broome Ward	lga3cd9f2694391	WA
wadb19aab089370	Central Ward	lga2e80b58b5711	WA
wadf23dd498bb83	Central Ward	lgab5f23977018c	WA
wadbe6e33c55b14	Central Ward	lga82fa96c43da5	WA
wadea2c21cae054	Central Ward	lgaf1f600985d14	WA
wad699e02a78800	Central Ward	lgaa7208507e0f1	WA
wad8f5b58ff3b88	City Ward	lga7d1ac9e6f9f2	WA
wadda2014644145	Coastal Ward	lga82fa96c43da5	WA
wada9e54201c109	Dampier Ward	lga3cd9f2694391	WA
wad10a4227337c3	Dampier Ward	lga12712c7fbac0	WA
wad2b55108893ef	Dinninup Ward	lga6865b59a3293	WA
wad8cfed39baac8	East Ward	lga82fa96c43da5	WA
wad690980516346	East Ward	lga2e80b58b5711	WA
wad29a480cac882	East Ward	lgab5f23977018c	WA
wad697779d2f664	East Ward	lga19a8033e8309	WA
wad58678e3561b6	Hilton Ward	lga7d1ac9e6f9f2	WA
wad144cef9abdae	Kalbarri Ward	lga04147236faf8	WA
wad7ce36ccea80a	Karratha Ward	lga12712c7fbac0	WA
wad29c951422d66	Lower Central Ward	lgaa7208507e0f1	WA
wadb278f72f1876	North Ward	lga82fa96c43da5	WA
wada9dae77ed871	North Ward	lgaf1f600985d14	WA
wadfee6144f7113	North West Ward	lgaa7208507e0f1	WA
wad9544a21e2182	Northampton Ward	lga04147236faf8	WA
wad3cf07ad2c763	Scotts Brook Ward	lga6865b59a3293	WA
wad8d57ef3f9b2c	South Ward	lgaf1f600985d14	WA
wad63e2c122a444	South Ward	lga2e80b58b5711	WA
wad169fa96ed716	South Ward	lga19a8033e8309	WA
wad9cbe22f3ba39	South Ward	lga82fa96c43da5	WA
wadb43a95622be5	South Ward	lga7d1ac9e6f9f2	WA
wad1a9dde5c1c47	Tableland Ward	lga229c15cd02b0	WA
wade26d529faf75	Town Ward	lgab5f23977018c	WA
wad4b1df8067cd4	Town Ward	lgabbf72d87e377	WA
wadb8c78e940ab4	West Ward	lgab5f23977018c	WA
wad58f95596f9c3	West Ward	lga82fa96c43da5	WA
wad8d04e820b656	West Ward	lga19a8033e8309	WA
wad3fa4adc60be2	West Ward	lga2e80b58b5711	WA
wad30871570a1e7	Wickham - Point Samson - Roebourne - Cossack - Pastoral Ward	lga12712c7fbac0	WA

Spatial Changes

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

ward_pid	ward_name	state	Difference SQKM	Old SQKM	New SQKM
wad3fee6ca70f34	North Ward	WA	52079	25,035	77,114
wad0459edde0213	East Ward	WA	228	752	980
wadc067c582b426	West Ward	WA	24	295	319
wadbe65207aa73d	Rural Ward	WA	21	53,713	53,734
wad0dbddf82c31f	Whiteman Ward	WA	15	69	84
wad9d9b60e813ff	Midland / Guildford Ward	WA	4	46	50
wad436506337bd0	Altone Ward	WA	3	18	21
wad913580569dd4	East Ward	WA	3	20	23
wad3b346fb6554b	South East Ward	WA	3	13	16
wadcb8c893e7b96	South Ward	WA	3	12	15
wad613843b9769b	Town Ward	WA	3	15	18
wadf4fbe7d4a395	East Ward	WA	2	3	5
wada2d4edb0fa33	North Ward	WA	2	4	6
wad69556b6cc522	North Ward	WA	2	24	26
wad75255d5b076d	North West Ward	WA	-2	14	12
wad85830dcfeb8f	South Ward	WA	-2	11	9
wad046696c9b6ee	North Ward	WA	-3	23	20
wad1478008c32e4	South West Ward	WA	-3	16	13
wad51157bb49336	West Ward	WA	-5	8	3
wadd9fd1466285f	North Ward	WA	-6	31	25
wadc5c9bfca3e18	Pearce Ward	WA	-21	377	356
wad34da53cd7ae1	Town Ward	WA	-21	43	22
wad10dfbf6a8d09	Coastal Ward	WA	-44	154	110
wad32ae80bbacba	Central Ward	WA	-225	358	133

Other Updates

There were no other updates.

Issues

New Issues

No new issues.

Resolved Issues

No resolved issues to note.

Known Issues

Un-enclosed gaps between Wards in NT

There are two un-enclosed gaps present in the Wards 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.

SA coastline generalisation for Central Ward

Jurisdictional changes to the coastline geometry have resulted in polygon generalisation for ‘Central Ward’ Ward in South Australia. These changes are related to boundary changes made to ‘The DC of Grant’ LGA. This has reduced the number of vertices in the polygons resulting in geometry differences and, in some scenarios, the creation of additional polygons for the LGA. Below is an example where a previous Admin Boundaries LGA outline (blue) can be seen compared to the new Local Government Area product representation (red area).

Geoscape is currently investigating this generalisation with the SA jurisdiction.

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 Wards 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
wards	Additional	0	0	0	0	0	114	0	0	109	223
	Retired	0	0	0	0	0	114	0	0	120	234
	Updated	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Total	0	0	829	0	0	155	0	313	226	1,523
	% Change	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	-4.64%	-0.72%