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Identifiers and Keywords

ANZLIC Id

ANZVI0803003531 

Victorian Spatial Data Library (VSDL) Schema

VMLITE:VMLITE_LOCALITY 

Jurisdiction

Victoria 

Topic category

• Structure

Resource Constraints

Use limitation

Data available via DELWP Data Service Providers www.delwp.vic.gov.au/vicmapdsp or DataVic www.data.vic.gov.au For enquires relating to this product: vicmap.info@delwp.vic.gov.au 

Classification

Unclassified  

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Other Dataset Details

Date ( Revision )

2020-07-03

Date ( Publication )

2023-06-16T10:36:24

Status

Completed  

Purpose

THIS DATASET WAS LAST UPDATED IN NOVEMBER 2012 

Supplemental Information

Current Design Issues: The classification scheme used is not strictly based on Town population size. Some minor towns in terms of population have been raised in status because of their remoteness or their postion in relation to the road, rail or stream network. Most suburbs of cities such as Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo and Albury have been assigned the minimum level classification to avoid clutter when labelling towns in dense urban areas. Related Documents: None 

Maintenance and update frequency

As needed  

Maintenance date ( Publication )

2023-04-15T00:19:17

Spatial

Spatial representation type

Vector  

Description

General - Victoria 

Reference system identifier

4283

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S

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W

Temporal

Begin date

2007-01-01 

End date

2012-11-01 

Resolution

Horizontal Accuracy

1000m  

Quality

Conceptual Consistency

A consistent subset of the LOCN dataset within Victoria with a classification code added. 

Missing Data

All locations classified as Town in the spatial dataset LOCN have been incorporated along with all named towns extracted from the relevant tiles of the ESRI Digital Chart of the World PPPOINT dataset. Completeness Verification: The completeness of the dataset was verified by overlay with the VICMAP VMFEAT.PL_PLACE_AREA_POLYGON dataset to ensure that no major towns (big enough to warrant mapping via a polygon extent) were missing. The general validity of the classification scheme was verified by comparison with published map sources such as Melways. 

Excess Data

The ESRI Digital Chart of the World dataset ppptype item along with the case of the associated pptname item was used to classify towns across the whole extent of the dataset into three levels which equate to levels 1,2 and 3 in the new dataset. Levels 4, 5, 6 and 7 were then manually assigned to major towns, regional centres, cities and capital 

Attribute Quality

The general validity of the classification scheme was verified by comparison with published map sources such as Melways. All names were processed to ensure consistent capitalisation of the words. 

Positional Accuracy

Same as LOCN within Victoria (10m to 100m (will vary according to source map) 

Lineage

Description

The ESRI Digital Chart of the World dataset PPPOINT was clipped to the extent of the MAPBASE_G200 dataset to limit the data to the South East region of Australia. The PPPOINTppptype item along with the case of the associated pptname item was used to classify towns across the whole extent of the dataset into three levels which equate to levels 1,2 and 3 in the new dataset. Levels 4, 5, 6 and 7 were then manually assigned to major towns, regional centres, cities and capital cities respectively. Towns that existed in LOCN but not in PPPOINT were then assigned a level of 0. This initial classification was then manually adjusted to suit cartographic purposes. Towns that existed in both LOCN and the working dataset were joined by name and the relevant points from locn substituted for the less accurate data from PPPOINT. Scale Use Code attribute then added and populated. 

Statement

Dataset Source: Derived from the L100MGA library group LOCN dataset and the L1000-DD94DCW library group PPPOINT dataset. Dataset Originality: Derived 

Attributes

Column Name	Obligation	Unique	Data Type	Data Length	Data Precision	Data Scale	Reference Table Owner	Reference Table Name	Reference Table Code Column Name	Short Column Name	Definition
UFI	M	Y	NUMBER	22	14	0				UFI	Database wide Unique Feature identifier. Assigned at every feature creation or edit, superseded by each edit to the feature.
UFI_CREATED	M	N	DATE	7						UFI_CR	The date the UFI was created
SCALE_USE_CODE	M	N	VARCHAR2	1			VMREFTAB	VL_SCALE_USE	SCALE_USE_CODE	SCALE_USEC	Refer to finalised scale use code document: codes 1-5 This product will utilise codes 1 to 5.
LOCALITY_NAME_LABEL	M	N	VARCHAR2	50						LOC_LABEL	Locality name formatted into upper and lower case
FEATURE_TYPE_CODE	M	N	VARCHAR2	30						FTYPE_CODE
STATE	M	N	VARCHAR2	7			VMREFTAB	VL_STATE	STATE	STATE	Acronym of State where feature located
LOCALITY_NAME	M	N	VARCHAR2	50						LOCALITY
HIERARCHY	M	N	NUMBER	22	1	0	VMREFTAB	VL_LOCALITY_HIERARCHY	HIERARCHY	HIERARCHY	HIERARCHY valid values are: 1=Capital City, 2=City, 3=Regional Centre, 4=Major or regionally ,significant town, 5=Large or locally significant town, 6=Town, 7=Small town or locally significant district, 8=District

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