Property Location Service Plus: Queensland Address Validation and Geocoding API

A public web service for validating Queensland addresses and property descriptions, which also supplies location data from geocodes. The service is provided by the Queensland Government's Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development and was last updated in May 2026. It offers operations including ValidateAddress, ValidateLotPlan, ValidateCoordinates, ParseAddress, and AutoCompleteAddress.

Use Cases

• Validate Queensland addresses based on the rigid Australian Addressing Standards structure described.
• Geocode addresses to obtain coordinates using the ValidateAddress operation mentioned.
• Validate property descriptions using the 'Lot on Plan' format via the ValidateLotPlan operation.
• Parse and auto-complete address inputs using the ParseAddress and AutoCompleteAddress functions.

Strengths

• The service is free of charge and does not require authentication for basic use.
• Operations return matching confidence levels and can return up to 500 candidate addresses for non-exact matches.
• Service versions are available in both SOAP and REST formats, as stated in the description.

Limitations

• The service does not offer interstate (non-Queensland) address validation information.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the service description or WSDL.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for bulk analysis.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Likely sourced from official Queensland government property and addressing databases.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-29 03:26:40.498444

Geography

Queensland, Australia