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Identifiers and Keywords

ANZLIC Id

ANZVI0803008676 

Victorian Spatial Data Library (VSDL) Schema

VMADMIN:WARD_2020 

Jurisdiction

Victoria 

Topic category

• Planning cadastre
• Environment
• Boundaries

Resource Constraints

Use limitation

Access through www.delwp.vic.gov.au/vicmapdata or Vicmap Data Service Providers www.delwp.vic.gov.au/vicmapdsp or DataVic www.data.vic.gov.au An arrangement also exists with Local Government Victoria and Information Services Division (DELWP) to make this data available for download from the VEC Web site. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/deed.en 

Classification

Unclassified  

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY)

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Other Dataset Details

Date ( Revision )

2021-03-17

Date ( Publication )

2023-11-28T09:41:14

Status

Completed  

Purpose

Vicmap Admin provides an accurate representation of various adminstrative boundaries across Victoria, at a capture scale of 1:25,000 or better. 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: The WARD boundaries dataset for Victoria was established by the Department for Victorian Communities, Local Government Victoria. The Victorian Electoral Commission is contracted to review these boundaries on rotating 3 general election cycle in line with the Local Government Act 1989. Relationship to other Datasets: This layer is related to the LGA_POLYGON boundaries. No WARDS should cross an LGA boundary (excepting that there are slivers and overlaps currently within this dataset). Related Documents: None https://www.land.vic.gov.au/maps-and-spatial/spatial-data/vicmap-catalogue 

Maintenance and update frequency

As needed  

Maintenance date ( Publication )

2022-10-21T19:56:03

Spatial

Spatial representation type

Vector  

Description

General - Victoria 

Reference system identifier

4283

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S

E

W

Temporal

Begin date

2020-08-01 

End date

now  

Resolution

Horizontal Accuracy

3m  

Quality

Conceptual Consistency

Topologically Structured. WARD boundaries may contain overlaps and slivers due to maintenance regime. Unincorporated areas are not included. 

Missing Data

Complete 

Attribute Quality

Approx. 99%. The methodology used in the establishment of the WARDS was primarily a self-checking process. Further QA was done via a cycle of maps produced for shires. Maintenance of the WARD data set has been done at the Victorian Electoral Commission. 

Positional Accuracy

The boundaries of the 43 LGAs affected by 2020 electoral structure changes were aligned to the 2020 ADMIN_LGA (tab) dataset The external boundaries of the remaining LGAs are still aligned to the 2016 ADMIN_LGA (tab) dataset. The exception is Borough of Queenscliffe, for which the difference between the maritime boundary of the existing ward object and the maritime boundary for LGA_POLYGON is sufficiently large as to be visually distracting in such a small LGA. Internal boundaries are aligned to Vicmap Transport or Hydro primarily, or to Vicmap Property when no other features are available. Therefore the underlying accuracy is equivalent to the datasets it is aligned to. 

Lineage

Statement

Dataset Source: WARD_2020 is directly extracted from the VEC¿s own Statewide Wards Master File. New extracts are triggered by changed ward boundaries from Electoral Representation Reviews or Subdivision Reviews. Updates for VicMap are normally sent in batches with several changes in one file. The boundaries in this update will be used for all the Councils holding elections in October 2020. 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
GAZETTAL_DATE	O	N	DATE	7						GAZETTAL
PFI	O	N	VARCHAR2	15						PFI
WARD_TYPE	O	N	VARCHAR2	30						WARD_TYPE
LGA_NAME	O	N	VARCHAR2	45						LGA_NAME
EFFECTIVE_FROM	O	N	DATE	7						EFFEC_FROM
EFFECTIVE_TO	O	N	DATE	7						EFFEC_TO
WARD_LABEL	O	N	VARCHAR2	40						WARD_LABEL
MEMBERS	O	N	VARCHAR2	2						MEMBERS
UFI_CREATED	O	N	DATE	7						UFI_CR
LGA_CODE	O	N	VARCHAR2	3						LGA_CODE
WARD_NAME	O	N	VARCHAR2	30						WARD_NAME
WARD_NUM	O	N	VARCHAR2	10						WARD_NUM
LAST_REVIEWED_DATE	O	N	DATE	7						LASTREVIEW
UFI	O	N	NUMBER	22	14	0				UFI

About the Metadata Record

Metadata identifier

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