Hawkesbury City Council Vegetation Community Mapping, 2007

Vegetation community mapping for the Hawkesbury City Council area, updated from a 2005 baseline. The dataset was produced by Hawkesbury City Council and last updated on the platform in 2026. It is available in multiple geospatial formats including PDF, ESRI REST, ZIP, and WMS.

Use Cases

• Monitor changes in vegetation communities based on the field-based update methodology.
• Inform local conservation and land-use planning based on mapped vegetation communities.
• Conduct ecological impact assessments using the spatially referenced vegetation data.

Strengths

• Data is provided under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Multiple access formats (PDF, ESRI REST, ZIP, WMS) are available for different user needs.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified as the core data is from 2007, despite a 2026 platform update.

Provenance

Source

Hawkesbury City Council

Collection Method

Field-based update of a 2005 vegetation community mapping.

Time Range

2007

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 17:04:41.388118; core data from 2007.

Geography

Hawkesbury City Council area, Australia