City of Hobart BYDA Layers: Urban Infrastructure and Assets

BYDA Layers contain 23 distinct geospatial data layers covering the physical infrastructure and environmental features of Hobart, Australia. These layers include road center lines, building footprints, stormwater and drainage networks, significant trees, cadastral boundaries, and potential underground electrical assets. The dataset is maintained by the City of Hobart's GIS team and is available in multiple geospatial formats.

Use Cases

• Utility planning and risk assessment based on potential underground electrical assets.
• Stormwater system modeling and maintenance planning based on pipe and node networks.
• Urban forestry management and planning based on significant tree and tree area layers.
• Cadastral and property analysis based on parcel boundaries and building footprints.
• Traffic and parking analysis based on road center lines and parking sensor locations.

Strengths

• Contains 23 specific, named layers providing detailed coverage of urban systems.
• Cross-platform presence on data.gov.au indicates official status and likely maintenance.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats (GEOJSON, KML, CSV, ZIP, ArcGIS REST API).

Limitations

• Metadata is incomplete: column names, row counts, and file sizes are listed as unknown or None.
• The license is listed only as 'other', which may restrict use without further clarification.
• A future 'last updated' date (2026-04 11) appears, suggesting potential metadata errors regarding freshness.

Provenance

Source

City of Hobart Open Data, authored by HCCGISICT.

Collection Method

Likely digitized and maintained by the City of Hobart's GIS and ICT department.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated dates range from 2026-03-25 to 2026-04-11, but the future dates indicate a metadata issue.

Geography

City of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.