Locality boundaries - Queensland

Identifier: PROP.QLD_LOCALITYBDY_DCDB
Relationship to related resource: source

The locality boundaries dataset is the spatial representation of bounded localities (includes suburbs) of Queensland. These are the official locality names and boundaries used for addressing.

From the 30 November 2015, there will no longer be reference to Parishes and Counties in the Departments land information systems, including the Digital Cadastral Database (DCDB) – a computerised map of property boundaries and related description of all land parcels in Queensland.

The Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy will retain a record of parishes and counties for historical purposes. The Museum of Lands, Mapping and Surveying provides historical information about parishes and counties and the historical parish directory is available online.
If you obtain information or products from QSpatial, either the information will no longer contain parish and county details, or the parish and county fields will contain the words ‘no longer used’.

DISCLAIMER: Users of the information recorded in this document (the Information) accept all responsibility and risk associated with the use of the Information and should seek independent professional advice in relation to dealings with property. Despite the department's best efforts, it makes no representations or warranties in relation to the Information, and, to the extent permitted by law, exclude or limit all warranties relating to correctness, accuracy, reliability, completeness or currency and all liability for any direct, indirect and consequential costs, losses, damages and expenses incurred in any way (including but not limited to that arising from negligence) in connection with any use of or reliance on the Information.

All of the unofficial locality polygons that are within the “Queensland Extent” area will be renamed to ‘External Locality’ as they are not located inside any Qld jurisdiction area. All of the other unofficial locality polygons that fall within an official LGA area will be renamed to ‘Unnamed Locality’. The exception to the above is the official locality of Moreton Bay, part of which falls outside of the Brisbane City LGA but is still a gazetted locality of Brisbane City. This part will remain named as ‘Moreton Bay’ (LOC 5785) in the DCDB and is merged with LOC 5788 (Moreton Bay within BCC) into one polygon in the Locality Boundaries dataset.

Title: EPSG Geodetic Parameter
Dataset
Date: 2007-07-16 (revision)
Edition: Version 6.13

Organisation: Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy
Address:

Organisation: Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy

Security classification (ISO 19115): unclassified

© State of Queensland (Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy) 2020

This material is licensed under a Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International licence.

The Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy requests attribution in the following manner:
© State of Queensland (Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy) 2020. Updated data available at http://qldspatial.information.qld.gov.au/catalogue// .

West bounding longitude: 138.000
East bounding longitude: 155.000
South bounding latitude: -29.500
North bounding latitude: -9.000

Start: 2012 End: unknown 2019

Level: dataset

Complete for all populated land areas in the state.
Please note: - There have been some recent LGA boundary changes that were effected in March 2016. Due to limitations in the way the DCDB stores boundary information and to avoid confusion the corresponding locality boundaries have also been amended to align them with the changed LGA boundaries. This is technically incorrect, as the amendments to the locality boundaries must still be gazetted to make them official. This will occur in the near future at which point this statement will be removed. Affected Localities are: Iron Range and Lockhart River (Cook SC), Lockhart River (Lockhart River Aboriginal SC) and Coral Sea (Bundaberg RC).
On the 9th March 2017 three new attributes were added, LOCALITY (Locality name in Upper and Lower case), LGA (LGA name in Upper and Lower case) and CA_AREA_SQKM (area of polygon in square kms).

This product consists of contiguous polygons in a single layer.

The positional accuracy of the data is equivalent to that of the DCDB at the time of the extraction.
Please note: - There have been some recent LGA boundary changes that were effected in March 2016. Due to limitations in the way the DCDB stores boundary information and to avoid confusion the corresponding locality boundaries have also been amended to align them with the changed LGA boundaries. This is technically incorrect, as the amendments to the locality boundaries must still be gazetted to make them official. This will occur in the near future at which point this statement will be removed. Affected Localities are: Iron Range and Lockhart River (Cook SC), Lockhart River (Lockhart River Aboriginal SC and Coral Sea (Bundaberg RC).
For more information please contact Tim Lys on (07)30783062.

The attributes in the dataset are Administrative Area Type, Administrative Area Name and DCDB Locality Code. The attribute accuracy is 98% reliable.

Lineage statement:

Name/identifier: Queensland Spatial Catalogue
Specification: Download Service
Online resource: Ordering information:

Name/identifier: downloadableData
Version: 10.0
Specification: ESRI ArcGIS Server Geoportal Extension Content Type

Format(s):
Transfer size (megabytes): 25
Online resource:

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