Western Australia Land District Boundaries

Landgate provides a spatial dataset detailing Western Australia's Land Districts, which are legally defined administrative boundaries. The data is updated via ministerial documents under the Land Administration Act 1997 and is available in multiple geospatial formats including SHP, GeoJSON, and GeoPackage.

Use Cases

• Map and analyze Townsite extent changes and their corresponding Land District boundary adjustments.
• Perform spatial joins using the Boundary and Administrative tags for regional planning applications.
• Integrate the Locality and District features with other planning datasets for administrative analysis.

Strengths

• Data is provided by Landgate, the authoritative Western Australian Land Information Authority.
• Available in 9 different geospatial file formats and service types for flexible access.
• Officially replaces a previous layer (LGATE-009), indicating maintained version control.

Limitations

• No row count, column list, or sample data is provided, limiting pre-download assessment of structure and scale.
• Entity names are truncated to 32 characters in the source system, which may obscure full official titles.
• The dataset's size and specific temporal coverage are unknown.

Provenance

Source

Western Australian Land Information Authority (Landgate)

Collection Method

Legally proclaimed boundaries described in documents raised on behalf of the Minister for Lands.

Time Range

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Freshness

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Geography

Western Australia, Australia