{ "culture": "en-US", "name": "", "guid": "", "catalogPath": "", "snippet": "Local Government Areas is a spatial representation of the administrative divisions that local governments are responsible for across the country. A Local Government Area (LGA) will typically have an elected council as well as a council leader (e.g. mayor, shire president). Local Government Areas aggregates the representations unique to each jurisdiction into a consistent, seamless representation of the LGA boundaries across Australia.", "description": "

Local Government Areas is designed to meet the needs of organisations that require a geospatial representation of LGA boundaries at both a local and national scale. The attribution provided within Local Government Areas allows for the application of the data across a wide range of commercial, government and research use<\/SPAN>.<\/SPAN><\/P>

Local Government Areas is created through processing LGA <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>data sourced from Australia\u2019s <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>States and Territories. Source attributes are mapped and standardised to provide a coherent definition across the jurisdiction supplies, with associated geometry being cleaned and <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>processed to output a topologically consistent layer of Australia\u2019s <\/SPAN><\/SPAN>LGA boundaries at a national scale. Additional attributes have been generated and integrated by Geoscape to support the jurisdictional information as well as to provide convenience in the use and representation of the dataset. <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P>

Local Government Areas is updated and released <\/SPAN>quarterly<\/SPAN> and has integrated relationships with other Geoscape Products<\/SPAN>.<\/SPAN> <\/SPAN>For full <\/SPAN>product <\/SPAN>details see:<\/SPAN> <\/SPAN>Local-Government-Areas-Product-Guide-v1.0.pdf (geoscape.com.au)<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/A><\/P>

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May 2023 Release<\/SPAN>- Individual State datasets merged by BOM in ArcGIS Pro with default geoprocessing parameters<\/SPAN>.<\/SPAN> This data was subsequently dissolved based upon the LGA_PID<\/SPAN> field <\/SPAN>t<\/SPAN>o simplify multi-part polygons into single features.<\/SPAN> <\/SPAN>The following features (listed by LGA_PID) have also had their LGA_NAME Field Edited<\/SPAN>:<\/SPAN><\/P>