Wyndham City Council Tree Inventory from 2009

Wyndham City Council Trees 2009 is a geospatial inventory of all known trees within the Wyndham City Council jurisdiction, compiled by the Wyndham City Council. The dataset provides a municipal-level snapshot of the urban forest as of 2009. It is available in multiple geospatial formats including GeoJSON, SHP, and WFS.

Use Cases

• Mapping tree locations and density across council wards using geospatial coordinates from the GeoJSON or SHP files.
• Analyzing species distribution and canopy cover for biodiversity studies if species data is included as an attribute.
• Assessing public asset value and maintenance needs for municipal budgeting based on tree inventory records.
• Integrating with other council datasets like land use or planning zones using shared geographic identifiers for spatial analysis.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple standard geospatial formats (GeoJSON, WFS, SHP, WMS) for interoperability.
• Dataset has a clear open license (CC-BY-4.0) permitting reuse with attribution.
• The inventory aims to be comprehensive for the council area, covering 'all known trees'.

Limitations

• Data is temporally stale, representing a snapshot from 2009 with no indication of updates to individual records.
• The specific attributes, column names, and total record count are unknown, limiting analytical depth.
• Potential geographic bias exists as it only covers the Wyndham City Council area in Australia.

Provenance

Source

Wyndham City Council

Collection Method

Municipal survey or inventory conducted by the council.

Time Range

2009

Freshness

The metadata was last updated in April 2026, but the underlying data reflects the 2009 inventory.

Geography

Wyndham City Council area, Victoria, Australia.