Property Location Service: Queensland Address Validation and Geocoding

A service for validating Queensland addresses and property descriptions, and supplying location data from a geocode. The service is provided by the Queensland Government's Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development. It was last updated on 2026-06-26.

Use Cases

• Validate Queensland addresses based on the service's validation capability.
• Geocode property descriptions to obtain location coordinates based on the geocode supply feature.
• Integrate address validation for interstate (non-Queensland) addresses based on the service's extended validation scope.

Strengths

• Service is free and does not require authentication for the public version.
• Includes interstate address validation in the government version.
• License is CC-BY-4.0, allowing for broad reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au, focusing on Queensland.

Provenance

Source

Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development, Queensland Government

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-26 20:57:26.831584; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Queensland, Australia, with interstate validation capability.