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Identifiers and Keywords

ANZLIC Id

ANZVI0803003978 

Victorian Spatial Data Library (VSDL) Schema

CROWNLAND:PLM25 

Jurisdiction

Victoria 

Topic category

• Environment
• Society
• Boundaries
• Inland waters

Resource Constraints

Classification

Unclassified  

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY)

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Other Dataset Details

Date ( Revision )

2022-04-04

Date ( Publication )

2025-12-03T16:02:54

Status

Completed  

Purpose

The PLM25 dataset holds land management information on parcels of land for: Park and Conservation Reserves VEAC recommendations Plantation State Forest Water Frontage and other public land. The PLM25 dataset represents public land management across the state. It allows users to identify the different land use categories, the local name, the legal status, the LCC recommendations associated with that entity, the land manager and whether any committees of management are present. This dataset supercedes PLM100 and its associated layers. 

Supplemental Information

History: Refer to metadata for PLM100_POLYGON, PARKRES, PARCEL_VIEW, VEACRECS25 and V_CL_TENURE. Relationship to other Datasets: VMPROP.PARCEL_CROWN_APPROVED, PLM100_POLYGON, PARCEL_VIEW, PARKRES, VEACRECS25, V_CL_TENURE, PRIMS and LIMS (text based business application) Current Design Issues: Polygons showing boundaries of areas scheduled under the National Parks Act 1975 are a guide only. The actual boundaries are defined by the linework and annotations on the certified (legal) plan, and by additional notes in the Act. Some of these plans are available from DEECA web site, while others can be viewed at DEECA offices. These annotations may be included in future versions of the dataset. Use of this layer is currently limited to display, query and some spatial analysis work since the data does not have a persistent unique identifier. This is due to the complexity associated with sourcing the spatial data from a variety of sources. This should be taken into consideration by those intending to integrate PARKRES with applications and or building processes around it. Data relating to certain land use categories from PRIMS database have attributes linked to the PRIMS id and may not have data attached to specific parcels. Potential errors: There is a known limitation when loading shapefiles from a postGIS/non ESRI software into a geodatabase as a feature class. Geometry errors are created when checking the imported shapefiles topology. It is recommended not to import the shapefile into a feature class. Instead analysis or geoprocessing should occur outside the geodatabase environment. ESRI and other GIS software have different specifications when writing an output to a shapefile. Thus, topological checks and geoprocessing undertaken in a geodatabase can create geometric errors, as it tries to fix identified topological errors. A description of the issue from ESRI helpdesk: The Shapefile format is an open format to which many software packages write to natively. Unfortunately some of these software packages (sometimes due to bugs) do not follow the documented specification for the Shapefile format. Also of note is that when Shapefiles are loaded into personal or file geodatabase, the features are copied as they are (with the geometry problem) to these other formats, so the same caution and care which needs to be used when using Shapefile data needs to be taken when using personal and file geodatabase feature classes. The exception to this when the data is loaded to an SDE Geodatabase. Before it is stored in the feature class, each record's geometry is checked for geometry problems, and repaired if necessary. Future Design Issues: The process will need to be updated once the CLIP project has been completed. Related Documents: None Refer to CROWNLAND.PLM100_POLYGON, CROWNLAND.PARKRES, PUBLICLAND.VEACRECS25, VMPROP.V_CL_TENURE and PARCEL_VIEW. Legal data from CLR textual database. 

Maintenance and update frequency

Quarterly  

Maintenance date ( Publication )

2023-03-04T01:13:41

Spatial

Spatial representation type

Vector  

Reference system identifier

4283

Temporal

Begin date

2008-11-30 

End date

2019-07-03 

Resolution

Horizontal Accuracy

25m  

Quality

Missing Data

The statewide dataset is complete. It includes PARKRES, VEACRECS25, CL_TENURE, PARCEL_CRWON APPROVED data. The data from PRIMS and PORTAL and the other datasets are overlaid on this data providing more accurate and additional information where available. Completeness Verification: Area comparisons between PLM25 and previous versions have been conducted. A comprehensive visual comparison has also been undertaken. 

Attribute Quality

Parks and Reserves are getting populated with their Land Manager from the PRIMS database. For remaining parcels the Land Manager is being populated from the Portal database and CL tenure dataset. These datasets have known issues, so use the land manager information with care and check were possible. The LCC Approval date is initially being populated with the main approval date for the LCC investigation, individual recommendations were often approved at a later date, these dates will be added as the information is compiled and will not be available in the initial release of the data. State game reserve data is incomplete. There are issues with names across the dataset. State forest names vary in their reliability, some are from official naming processes, while others are draft names using locality information to try to give all forest blocks a name rather than the generic "unnamed state forest" tag. Over time regional staff will systematically check these names and provide official names. 

Positional Accuracy

Polygons are derived from multiple sources: - Vicmap parcels (1:2 500 - 1:25 000) - Digital certified plan boundaries for areas recently scheduled under the National Parks Act 1975 at (1:25 000) - Boundaries digitised by the Parks and Protected Areas Branch (based on 1:25 000 topography) - CL_Tenure polygons - Data provided by Parks Victoria for Port Phillip 

Lineage

Description

The PLM process is made up of 30 modules based on python scripts and SQL queries in postGIS to create outputs which are then exported to a shapefile, then imported into the VSDL. 

Statement

Dataset Source: Text attributes are sourced from PRIMS, LIMS and CLR data. Polygons are derived from Vicmap parcels, National Parks Act 1975 certified plans, additional mapping based on 1:25 000 topography, PARKRES, PLM100_POLYGON, V_CL_TENURE and VEACRECS25. New datasets are based on VicMap parcels to create datasets showing plantations, state forest and water frontages. These datasets are based on certified plans, and from gazettals. Refer to metadata for PLM100_POLYGON and PARCEL_VIEW. Dataset Originality: Primary & 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
REC_CODE	O	N	VARCHAR2	6						REC_CODE	LCC/ECC/VEAC final recommendation code
LABEL	O	N	VARCHAR2	120						LABEL	Label field for 1:100 000 scale with the full length name in sentence case (e.g. Mt Buffalo National Park)
IMPL_STAT	O	N	VARCHAR2	15						IMPL_STAT	Implementation status of the LCC/ECC/VEAC recommendations
RES_DATE	O	N	DATE	7						RES_DATE	Date of Reservation from Crown Land Registry
GENER_DESC	O	N	VARCHAR2	100						GENER_DESC	General Description (e.g. marine, crown, water body, island, commonwealth)
ADDTL_ACTS	O	N	VARCHAR2	100						ADDTL_ACTS	Any additional legislation impacting on a parcel
REC_CAT	O	N	VARCHAR2	100						REC_CAT	LCC/ECC/VEAC land use major category recommendation
STUDY_AREA	O	N	VARCHAR2	70						STUDY_AREA	LCC/ECC/VEAC Study area
IUCN_CAT	O	N	VARCHAR2	100						IUCN_CAT	World Conservation Union protected area categories
PKAREA_TY	O	N	NUMBER	22	30	11				PKAREA_TY	Park and Reserves Information system area type
SCHED	O	N	VARCHAR2	50						SCHED	Section or Schedule under the Act
VERS_DATE	O	N	DATE	7						VERS_DATE	Date published
MNG_SPEC	O	N	VARCHAR2	100						MNG_SPEC	Specific Land Manager e.g. DHS, DOJ
PRIMS_ID	O	N	NUMBER	22	30	11				PRIMS_ID	Parks and reserve information management system ID
DATE_LCCAP	O	N	DATE	7						DATE_LCCAP	Date of LCC/ECC/VEAC approval by Governor-in-council
MMTGEN	O	N	VARCHAR2	60						MMTGEN	Management Generalized field used for statewide scale map display. Some public land categories are grouped into major land descriptions (i.e. services and utilities into other public land)
NAME	O	N	VARCHAR2	100						NAME	Local name or description (for all polygons where a name is available, in uppercase)
AREA_CODE	O	N	NUMBER	22	30	11				AREA_CODE	LCC/ECC/VEAC Study area code
STGAME_RES	O	N	VARCHAR2	10						STGAME_RES	State Game Reserve (Y/N)
AREA_HA	O	N	NUMBER	22	30	11				AREA_HA	Area of polygon (Hectares)
PERIMETER	O	N	NUMBER	22	30	11				PERIMETER	Perimeter of polygon (m)
POLY_SOURC	O	N	VARCHAR2	100						POLY_SOURC	Polygon source e.g. VICMAP parcel
MMGT_ONGEN	O	N	VARCHAR2	100						MMGT_ONGEN	Generalised Management Categories
DATE_EST	O	N	DATE	7						DATE_EST	Date of establishment of the original reserve
MNG_GROUP	O	N	VARCHAR2	50						MNG_GROUP	Grouped land manager e.g. Other Government Department
MMGT_ONGRD	O	N	VARCHAR2	100						MMGT_ONGRD	Current management on ground - may not reflect LCC
ACT	O	N	VARCHAR2	200						ACT	Legal status description
NAME_SOURC	O	N	VARCHAR2	50						NAME_SOURC	Name source either LCC/ECC/VEAC recommendation or local description
PLM_ID	O	N	NUMBER	22	30	11				PLM_ID	Unique Feature identifier
REC_SBCAT	O	N	VARCHAR2	100						REC_SBCAT	LCC/ECC/VEAC land use sub-category recommendation
LABELSHORT	O	N	VARCHAR2	100						LABELSHORT	Label field for 1:100 000 scale with the land tenure abbreviated in the name (e.g. Mt Buffalo NP)
PLU_CODE	O	N	VARCHAR2	3						PLU_CODE	A combination of future use and current use codes from VEACRECS25 data
GENER_TYPE	O	N	NUMBER	22	30	11				GENER_TYPE	General description code
LGA_CODE	O	N	VARCHAR2	3						LGA_CODE	Local government area code
LGA_NAME	O	N	VARCHAR2	50						LGA_NAME	Local government area name
LU_CODE	O	N	NUMBER	22	9	0				LU_CODE	Label Use code is used for scaling the labels in map production

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Metadata identifier

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