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 "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": "<DIV STYLE=\"text-align:Left;\"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>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>.<\/SPAN><\/P><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN><SPAN>Local Government Areas is created through processing LGA <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><SPAN><SPAN>data sourced from Australia\u2019s <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><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><SPAN><SPAN>processed to output a topologically consistent layer of Australia\u2019s <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><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><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN>Local Government Areas is updated and released <\/SPAN><SPAN>quarterly<\/SPAN><SPAN> and has integrated relationships with other Geoscape Products<\/SPAN><SPAN>.<\/SPAN><SPAN> <\/SPAN><SPAN>For full <\/SPAN><SPAN>product <\/SPAN><SPAN>details see:<\/SPAN><SPAN> <\/SPAN><A href=\"https://geoscape.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Local-Government-Areas-Product-Guide-v1.0.pdf\" STYLE=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><SPAN STYLE=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><SPAN>Local-Government-Areas-Product-Guide-v1.0.pdf (geoscape.com.au)<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/A><\/P><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN /><SPAN STYLE=\"font-weight:bold;\">Lineage<\/SPAN><\/P><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN>May 2023 Release<\/SPAN><SPAN>- Individual State datasets merged by BOM in ArcGIS Pro with default geoprocessing parameters<\/SPAN><SPAN>.<\/SPAN><SPAN> This data was subsequently dissolved based upon the LGA_PID<\/SPAN><SPAN> field <\/SPAN><SPAN>t<\/SPAN><SPAN>o simplify multi-part polygons into single features.<\/SPAN><SPAN> <\/SPAN><SPAN>The following features (listed by LGA_PID) have also had their LGA_NAME Field Edited<\/SPAN><SPAN>:<\/SPAN><\/P><UL><LI><P><SPAN /><SPAN>lga1bf4b9703dd4: Central Coast Council --&gt;Central Coast Council (NSW)<\/SPAN><\/P><\/LI><LI><P><SPAN>lgab848eee26cd6: Central Coast Council --&gt;Central Coast Council (TAS)<\/SPAN><\/P><\/LI><LI><P><SPAN>lgae1e88444b382: Campbelltown City Council --&gt; Campbelltown City Council (NSW)<\/SPAN><\/P><\/LI><LI><P><SPAN>lgae01a99dc2d13: Campbelltown City Council --&gt; Campbelltown City Council (SA)<\/SPAN><\/P><\/LI><\/UL><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><SPAN /><SPAN>Original Source Data From:<\/SPAN><\/P><P STYLE=\"margin:0 0 0 0;\"><A href=\"https://data.gov.au:443/dataset/ds-dga-bdcf5b09-89bc-47ec-9281-6b8e9ee147aa/details?q=PSMA%20administrative%20boundaries\" STYLE=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><SPAN>Administrative boundaries on data.gov.au<\/SPAN><\/A><\/P><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/DIV>",
 "summary": "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.",
 "title": "Local Government Areas V1.0 (LGA's) - May 2023",
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 "accessInformation": "Administrative Boundaries © Geoscape Australia licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0).",
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