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Identifiers and Keywords

ANZLIC Id

ANZVI0803003027 

Victorian Spatial Data Library (VSDL) Schema

VMADMIN:LOCALITY_POLYGON 

Jurisdiction

Victoria 

Topic category

• Environment
• Planning cadastre
• Boundaries

Resource Constraints

Classification

Unclassified  

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY)

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Other Dataset Details

Date ( Revision )

2021-03-17

Date ( Publication )

2025-12-12T19:40:22

Status

Completed  

Purpose

Vicmap Admin provides an accurate representation of various adminstrative boundaries across Victoria, at a capture scale of 1:25,000. It is used in a variety of applications, particularly in emergency services, natural resource management, planning and development, and digital map publications. 

Supplemental Information

History: Defined locality boundaries were needed to provide clear definition in developing GIS systems, particularly those of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, emergency service dispatch and local government. ABS provided the necessary impetus to enable the Registrar of Geographic Names to pursue the goal of defined boundaries across the state. Related Documents: None https://www.land.vic.gov.au/maps-and-spatial/spatial-data/vicmap-catalogue 

Maintenance and update frequency

Weekly  

Maintenance date ( Publication )

2023-03-11T01:13:22

Spatial

Spatial representation type

Vector  

Reference system identifier

4283

Temporal

Begin date

2005-05-15 

End date

now  

Resolution

Horizontal Accuracy

3m  

Quality

Conceptual Consistency

Topologically structured. 

Missing Data

Complete. 

Attribute Quality

Approx. 99%. Suburbs/rural Districts Geographic Names employed contractors to systematically go through the submissions from Local Governments and compare them to the mapped boundaries and names. All discrepancies were sent to LIG for inclusion into the base data set. Geographic Names forwards to LIG any changes to the Rural Districts/Suburbs as they occur. In this dataset a locality is defined by Loc_Name 

Positional Accuracy

Varies as per scale of capture of VicMap Digital Property. Vicmap Digital Property is classified as 'BB' accuracy, ie. 90% of well-defined features are within 1mm, at plot scale, of their true position, eg. 1:500 equates to +/- 0.5metre and 1:25,000 equates to +/- 25 metres. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the spatial accuracy of the major part of the data set, at all scales is frequently better than BB. Within the metropolitan area, 'Melbourne Water' requires subdivisions exceeding nine lots to be submitted in digital form. When input into the base, every effort is made to use this 'survey accurate' data to extend the accuracy of the immediately surrounding detail. No 'shift' of data as a means of 'cartographic enhancement' to facilitate presentation has been employed for any real world feature. 

Lineage

Description

Local Government defines suburb, town and rural district boundaries after seeking appropriate consultation with all interested parties. Proposed boundaries/names are submitted to Registrar of Geographic Names for approval and formal gazettal. As boundary and name information changes are processed through the formal definition and gazettal process at the Registrar of Geographic Names, the amendments will be flagged and the dataset will be updated and all new boundaries aligned to Vicmap Property. 

Statement

Dataset Source: Local Government defines suburb, town and rural district boundaries after seeking appropriate consultation with all interested parties. Proposed boundaries/names are submitted to Registrar of Geographic Names for approval and formal gazettal. Dataset Originality: Derived 

Attributes

Column Name	Obligation	Unique	Data Type	Data Length	Data Precision	Data Scale	Reference Table Owner	Reference Table Name	Reference Table Code Column Name	Short Column Name	Definition
PFI_CREATED	O	N	DATE	7			NONE	NONE	NONE	PFI_CR	The date that the persistent Feature Identifier was created
UFI_CREATED	O	N	DATE	7			NONE	NONE	NONE	UFI_CR	The date the UFI was created
VICNAMES_ID	M	Y	NUMBER	22	9	0				VICNAMESID	GNR (Vicnames) Identifier
UFI	O	N	NUMBER	22	10	0	NONE	NONE	NONE	UFI	Database wide Unique Feature identifier. Assigned at every feature creation or edit, superseded by each edit to the feature.
UFI_OLD	O	N	NUMBER	22	10	0	NONE	NONE	NONE	UFI_OLD	UFI of feature prior to last edit
LOCALITY_NAME	M	Y	VARCHAR2	46			VMREFTAB	LOCALITY	LOCALITY_UNIQUE	LOCALITY
PFI	O	N	VARCHAR2	10			NONE	NONE	NONE	PFI	Persistent Feature Identifier. Assigned at the creation of the feature and is retained for the life of the feature.
GAZETTED_LOCALITY_NAME	O	N	VARCHAR2	40			VMREFTAB	LOCALITY	LOCALITY	GAZLOC

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Metadata identifier

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