TAS Local Government Areas: Geoscape Administrative Boundaries for Australia

Geoscape Administrative Boundaries provides digital Local Government Areas derived from authoritative state and territory cadastre data. The dataset is published quarterly under a CC BY 4.0 license by the Commonwealth of Australia and maintained by Geoscape Australia. Users can download data referencing either GDA94 or GDA2020 datums.

Use Cases

• Map service area boundaries based on Local Government Areas mentioned in the description
• Conduct demographic analysis using the administrative boundaries framework
• Integrate spatial data into applications using the provided GEOJSON or WFS formats

Strengths

• Derived from authoritative government cadastre data from each Australian state and territory
• Updated on a quarterly publication schedule
• Available under a permissive CC BY 4.0 license

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

Geoscape Australia, using authoritative government data

Collection Method

Derived from cadastre data from each Australian state and territory jurisdiction

Freshness

Quarterly updates; last metadata update was 2026-05-18

Geography

Australia