Built Up Areas Dataset

<div>Built up area polygons designed for the AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series 250k. Generated from Bing Building Footprints using the Delineate Built Up Area tool in ArcGIS Pro. Feature class attributes include polygon area (in m2) and feature type (Builtup Area).</div>

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2023-04-30T18:00:00
Date (Publication)
2023-08-31T01:46:13
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/148631

Citation identifier
Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/148631

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Publisher

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Author

Nip, Y.

 Internal Contact
Author

Carter, L.

 Internal Contact
Editor

Nip, Y.

 Internal Contact
Editor

Carter, L.

 Internal Contact
Purpose

Built up area polygons represent where buildings are clustered together, such as urban areas. Layer can be used for activities such as monitoring urban grown , or responding to natural disasters. Product has been designed for AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series 250k.

Status
Completed
Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Resource provider

Place and Communities Division

 External Contact
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Carter, L.

 Place and Communities Internal Contact
Spatial representation type
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

N
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W


Temporal extent

Time period
2013-01-01 2018-01-01
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Protocol

FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY

Name of the resource

Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Description

Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes

Project

  • 250k Topographic Map of Australia

  • Topographic Print on Demand

Keywords

  • 250k topographic

Keywords

  • Built Up Areas

Keywords

  • Buildings

theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf

  • Development geography

  • Urban geography

  • Urban informatics

Keywords

  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Addressee
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
User

Any
Use constraints
License
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2023

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified
Classification system

Australian Government Security Classification System

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice facsimile
OnLine resource

Download the data (gdb) [2.38 MB]

Download the data (gdb) [2.38 MB]

Distribution format

  • zip gdb

    File decompression technique

    unzip

Resource lineage

Statement

<div>Dataset was generated by using the Bing Building Footprints of Australia (October 2020) dataset as an input. Built Up Area layer was created using the Delineate Built Up Areas tool in ArcGIS Pro in April 2023.</div><div><br></div><div>This layer was produced as part of the update of AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series 250k</div>

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/Geocentric Datum of Australia 2020 / geodetic (EPSG: 1168)

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/0508a90a-f048-460a-9bca-4f7f437274d0

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Carter, L.

 Place and Communities Internal Contact

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/148631

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/0508a90a-f048-460a-9bca-4f7f437274d0

Date info (Creation)
2025-06-16T04:17:44.506Z
Date info (Creation)
2023-08-31T01:43:26
Date info (Revision)
2025-06-16T04:19:34.949Z

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier
http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

Spatial extent

N
S
E
W


Keywords

250k Topographic Map of Australia Topographic Print on Demand
theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
Development geography Urban geography Urban informatics

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