City of Hobart Road Centre Lines and Infrastructure Layers

City of Hobart: BYDA Layers is a municipal geospatial dataset from the Hobart City Council. It includes road centre lines with attributes like road name and speed limit, alongside other infrastructure layers such as stormwater networks, building footprints, cadastre boundaries, and significant trees. The dataset is part of a broader collection of urban planning and asset management data.

Use Cases

• Traffic analysis and planning based on road centre line geometry and speed limit attributes.
• Stormwater network modeling using stormwater pipe and node layers.
• Property and land-use analysis referencing cadastre parcel and river boundary layers.
• Urban forestry management using significant tree and tree area layers.
• Infrastructure asset mapping for council buildings, structures, and potential underground electrical assets.

Strengths

• Cross-platform presence on data.gov.au suggests official importance and reuse potential.
• Contains a wide array of specific, named infrastructure layers (e.g., Stormwater Pipes, Building Footprints, Cadastre Parcels).

Limitations

• Critical metadata like row counts, column details, and file sizes are consistently listed as unknown or 'None' across all sources.
• Conflicting author attribution ('HCCGISICT' vs. 'HCCGISEB') for similar dataset entries creates provenance uncertainty.
• Sparse documentation; detailed schema and attribute definitions for the listed layers are not provided.

Provenance

Source

City of Hobart Open Data / Hobart City Council (HCC)

Collection Method

Likely collected and maintained by municipal GIS teams for city operations.

Freshness

Last updated: 2026-06-02 16:46:30.411909

Geography

City of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia