AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Average Modelled Wind Speeds (m/s) for Victoria

The wind resource has been mapped on a 3 km x 3 km grid across Victoria. Average annual wind speeds have been modelled using the WindScape wind resource mapping tool that was developed by the Wind Energy Research Unit of CSIRO Land and Water in 2002. WindScape uses atmospheric data, and regional topography to model the wind resource at 65 metres above ground level to a resolution of 3 kilometres. The resolution of the modelled wind resource means that it does not incorporate the effects of local landscape features smaller than 3 kilometres in size, like small hills and ridges. This dataset is derived from the same data used to create the overview map of the Victorian wind atlas published by the Sustainable Energy Authority Victoria, c2003

Tags: Utilities communication
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Historic sites (line features)

Records about historic linear features on Victorian public land, collected as a result of field survey by NRE staff and contractors. Some data updated during Old Growth Forest survey and modelling up to 20210
Primarily updated in 2018-2019 as part of the RFA Review

Contains, water races, channels tramlines and other linear historic features, forestry or minig mainly
Some line features 1:100k others are from VICMAP HYDRO/ROAD
UFID - unique feature identifier added Jan 2023

Tags: Biota, Economy, Environment, Farming, Society
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Public Land Management (PLM25)

This dataset describes public land management for the State of Victoria, where Public Land is defined as land held by/vested in/or owned by DEECA and other government departments, public authorities, Commonwealth government and municipalities. Refer to VEAC Act 2001 for more details.

Public land includes state forests, parks and reserved and unreserved Crown land, including estuarine, coastal and marine areas to the 3 nautical mile limit (5.5 km) from the high watermark. This layer is represented at a scale of 1:25 000 and describes the primary management, land manager and the VEAC recommendations.

PLM25 is a derived layer, using VMPROP.PARCEL_CROWN_APPROVED as the base layer. It relies on tabular and spatial sources to get the land description. PORTAL, PRIMS are the tabular sources of information. PARKRES, VEACRECS25 and CL_TENURE are the spatial sources. Additional layers were also created to describe areas of state forests, plantations, water frontages and commonwealth land.

PLM25 has replaced the old PLM100 datasets.

Any errors can be reported to Plm25.info@deeca.vic.gov.au

Tags: Boundaries, Environment, Inland waters, Society
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Vicmap Admin - Country Fire Authority (CFA) Region Polygon

Part of the Vicmap Admin dataset series. This layer contains polygon features delineating the current Country Fire Authority Region Boundaries.

In 2010, CFA moved to align their administrative boundaries to the Victorian Government Regional Departmental Boundaries. As a result of this direction, from 1st July 2010, what was once known as CFA Areas will now be known as CFA Regions.

There are three exceptions in this dataset. In June 2011, Bass Coast Shire became part of Southern Metropolitan Region when the Victorian Government Regional Departmental Boundaries indicate that it should be part of Gippsland Region. In October 2012, Yarriambiack Shire was divided using the east-west rabbit fence (same as the Total Fire Ban District Boundary) which impacts on the Loddon Mallee and Grampians Regions boundary. In August 2013, the gazetted boundary prior to the mapping changes made as part of the Boundary Alignment Project at Inverloch Brigade, were reinstated impacting on the boundary ajoining Southern Metropolitan and Gippsland Regions.

On the 2nd October 2014, CFA's eight Regions became five. This involved the merger of Hume and Eastern Metropolitan Regions to form North East Region, and Loddon Mallee and Northern &amp; Western Metropolitan Regions to form North West Region. The other Regions were also renamed. These changes were a part of the Creating our Future Together (COFT) Program.

Tags: Boundaries, Environment, Transportation
Organization: Country Fire Authority
Native Vegetation Time Stamping Dataset - Melbourne Growth Areas (VC68)

This dataset is a definitive view of native vegetation extent and condition across Melbourne’s VC68 urban growth areas and incomplete Precinct planning areas within the Melbourne Urban Growth Boundary, time-stamped as at 13 December 2012. The area covered by the timestamping dataset aligns with the extent of the Biodiversity Conservation Strategy (BCS) for Melbourne’s Growth Corridors (DSE 2012).

This dataset wholly replaces the previously released NV2011_TS_GA and includes the following changes:
-inclusion of Number of Large and Very Large Trees in Surveyed remnant Patches
-Remnant Patches have new Unique IDs to remedy issues in previous dataset

The dataset only provides a view of native vegetation within the extent outlined above. Where a parcel is partially within the extent, the view of native vegetation only applies to areas applicable within the BCS.

Tags: Biota
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Vicmap Lite - Victorian Government Region Polygon - 1:250,000 to 1 :5,000,000

This layer is part of Vicmap Lite and contains polygon features delineating Victorian Government Regional Departmental boundary areas. Vicmap Lite datasets are suited for use between scales of 1: 250,000 and 1 : 5 million. The polygons were sourced from Vicmap Admin. The level of attribute information and the number of vertices has been simplified to suit the 1: 250,000 - 1 : 5 million scale range. The concept of a Scale Use Code has been introduced to help control the level of detail displayed.

THIS DATASET WAS LAST UPDATED IN NOVEMBER 2015

Tags: Boundaries
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
Victorian Coastal Cliff Assessment - Instability Areas (ASCCIE) - 2100 - 0.8m

The Victorian Coastal Cliff Assessment - Instability Areas (ASCCIE) is a digital dataset consisting of multiple spatial layer outputs from modelled erosion scenarios. The dataset is recommended for use at the statewide / regional scale along the Victorian coastline. Application of the data should be guided by the accompanying Victorian Coastal Cliff Assessment technical reports and expert advice. The product is not suitable for individual property scale assessments. 

Consolidated shorelines, which include soil and rock cliffs, are not able to rebuild following periods of erosion but rather are subject to a one-way process of degradation. ASCCIEs typically have two components:

• Toe Erosion
A gradual retreat of the cliff toe caused by weathering, marine and bio-erosion processes. This retreat will be affected by global process such as sea level rise and potentially increased soil moisture. Future cliff toe position based on historical erosion rates with a factor applied to allow for the effect of future sea level rise.

• Cliff Instability
Episodic instability events are predominately due to a change in loading or material properties of the cliff or yielding along a geological structure. In soft cliffs, instability causes the cliff slope to flatten to a slope under which it is “stable” (geo-mechanically). Soil cliff slope instabilities are influenced by processes that erode and destabilise the cliff toe, including marine processes, weathering and biological erosion or change the stress within the cliff slope. Most of the hard cliffs are stable at very steep angles. Instability events may range from small-scale instabilities (block or rock falls) or discontinuities, to cliff slope instability cause by large-scale and deep-seated mass movement. The latter mode of failure in hard cliffs is rare.

The product is an update to the Victorian Coastal Cliff Assessment, Stage 1. Included datasets for Stage 2a supersede the Stage 1 outputs. The Stage 2a project report should be read in conjunction with the Stage 1 report. Application of the data should be guided by the accompanying "Victorian Coastal Cliff Assessment, Stage 2a technical report" (Tonkin &amp; Taylor 2025) read in conjunction with the Stage 1 technical report, combined with appropriate expert advice.

Tags: Environment, Oceans
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
PLM25 overlays representing Wildlife Management Co-operative Areas

This dataset was created in conjunction with PLM25, to represent one of the management overlays.
The overlays have been mapped at 1:25 000, using VicMap topographic data in particular parcels to create more accurate and identifiable boundaries.

PLM25_OVERLAYS is located under the CROWNLAND schema. 
PLEASE NOTE: This dataset now replaces the PLM100 overlays.

This dataset is a representation of the boundaries - the gazettal and certified plans are the official boundaries.

Currently the creation process is not automated or synchronised with PLM25 updates.

Tags: Boundaries, Environment, Society
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Vicmap Property - Property Table

This layer contains aspatial details for all properties in Victoria. A property is defined as land, usually contiguous, under one ownership, and of a common class and tenure. It is used for land under common occupation particularly for the purpose of rating, billing or habitation. Properties are typically described by street address allocated by an authority such as local government.

It includes:
- Property numbers as allocated by local governement authority;
- Registered and proposed status;
- Type of property, ie, single or multi-assessment;
- LGA code;
- Unique Feature Identifiers, date stamps and data quality information.

Address information IS NOT included in Vicmap Property.
MetaX records this dataset as VMPROP.PROPERTY

Tags: Boundaries
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
Urban Development Program - Industrial Land 2017

Identifies all industrial land and the development status and size of each land parcel in hectare across metropolitan Melbourne.
This information identifies all industrial zoned land (Industrial 1, 2 and 3 as well as Commercial 2 Zone), and land of an industrial character and includes the Airport Business Parks, selected Special Use Zones, selected Comprehensive Development Zones and specific precincts within the Activity Centre Zones and Urban Growth Zones.
Each land parcel is assessed as being either Unavailable (currently being used) or Supply (vacant).

Urban Development Program (UDP).

Tags: Planning cadastre, Structure
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
FMQF Features on Crown Land

The Former Mines and Quarries Project (2022 to 2025) created a process to extract data from many WOVG datasets in order to collate all these features into an inventory. of Mining and Quarrying Features such as Mine Shafts or Quarries. It includes a considerable number of new features collected from LIDAR analysis. 
Feeder Datasets include:
ABANDONED_MINES
ACTIVE_CONTAM
FMQF
FMQF_LIDAR
FOI_POINT
FOI_POLYGON
HERITAGE_INVENTORY
HERITAGE_REGISTER
HIST100_POINT
MINERALS.MINSITE
MULLOCK100_POLYGON
RECWEB_HISTORIC_RELIC
MINERALS.SHAFT

The following link provides all documentation behind the database that was used to create this dataset: https://earthresources.efirst.com.au/product.asp?pID=1353&amp;cID=71

For further information email fmqf@deeca.vic.gov.au

Tags: Environment
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Urban Development Program - Industrial Land 2016

This data is now obsolete, current UDP data is available.

Identifies all industrial land and the development status and size of each land parcel in hectare across metropolitan Melbourne.
This information identifies all industrial zoned land (Industrial 1, 2 and 3 as well as Commercial 2 Zone), and land of an industrial character and includes the Airport Business Parks, selected Special Use Zones, selected Comprehensive Development Zones and specific precincts within the Activity Centre Zones and Urban Growth Zones.
Each land parcel is assessed as being either Unavailable (currently being used) or Supply (vacant).

Tags: Planning cadastre, Structure
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
Primary watercourse entrances along the Victorian coastline.

This layer identifies the entrances to major watercourses along the Victorian coastline. The layer is a points coverage with the point location representing approximately the centre of the watercourse entrance. Sites were identified from 1:25,000 topographic maps and consultation with coastal rangers. The layer is intended to provide oil spill response personnel with a guide to assist in determining response techniques to prevent oil slicks entering these river inlets in the event of an oil spill. Locations are classified as continously open or intermittently open.

Tags: Oceans
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Final VEAC boundary for the River Red Gum Forests Investigation

This boundary has been created at 1:25,000 showing the River Red Gum Forests Investigation, for the Victorian Environmental Assessment Council.
The Minister, under Section 15 of the Victorian Environmental Assessment Council Act 2001 required VEAC to carry out an investigation of the public land of Victoria’s River Red Gum Forests occurring on public land in northern Victoria. The area investigated was the river red gum ecosystem stretching from the South Australian border in the west to Wodonga in the north-east along the Murray River and down its major tributaries.

Tags: Society
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
1 minute increments of the GDA94 latitude/longitude graticule

This dataset is a simple polygon layer of rectangular cells aligned to 1 minute increments of the GDA94 latitude/longitude graticule. It is designed for use as an indexing mechanism for point record observations of flora and fauna. The layer covers an area of south-east Australia extending from 139 degrees to 151 degrees 30 minutes EAST and 33 degrees to 42 degrees SOUTH. It thus incorporates substantial areas of South Australia and New South Wales plus all of Bass Strait and the north coast of Tasmania.

Tags: Boundaries
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
RIWI Act, Groundwater Areas (DWER-034)

Groundwater areas proclaimed under the Rights in Water and Irrigation Act, 1914. 

For the purposes of groundwater resource management, the state of Western Australia is divided into groundwater areas. The extraction and licensing of groundwater resources are 
managed within groundwater areas.

This dataset was formerly known as RIWI Act, Groundwater Areas (DOW-012)

Tags: Boundaries Administrative, WATER Groundwater
Organization: Department of Water and Environmental Regulation
Urban Forest Mesh Blocks - 2024 (DPLH-109)

Based on Landgate’s high resolution aerial imagery, CSIRO generate the Urban Monitor mosaic from which vegetation height strata of endemic and exotic species has been calculated and reported as an area for each height strata of 0 – 3 m, 3 – 8 m, 8 – 15 m and 15+ m. The area of grass covered areas falling into the 0 – 50 cm range has also been calculated and recorded in square metres. Vegetation coverage greater than 3 metres in height has been deemed tree canopy. The canopies have been aggregated and reported as total canopy coverage in square metres. Urban Forest Mesh Blocks have been published for the following years: 2009, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2024.

Parcels to be analysed were sourced from the 2024 Integrated Land Information Database (ILID) and supplied to CSIRO by the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage. The results were assembled into Urban Forest features where the Urban Monitor coverage was complete.

Land parcels were assigned locational data (2021 ABS meshblocks, suburbs, local government authority (LGA) and planning sub-region) based on the parcel centroid. They were then attributed with the following land use categories: • Street Block: residential, commercial, industrial, hospital/medical, educational, and some agricultural and transport land uses • Parks: public parks, open space, private recreation grounds and State Forest • Roads: roads including road reserves • Other Infrastructure: rail, airports and utilities infrastructure • Other: land uses in transition that have not progressed sufficiently to be Street Blocks or do not conform to urban form • Rural: primary production land that does not fall in categories above • Water: ocean and other waterways, including reservoirs

The vegetation height strata areas and total canopy coverage values were calculated for each land parcel. The statistics were then aggregated by the field MB_MonitorCategory, a concatenation of the fields MB_CODE2021 and MonitorCategory. Canopy coverage percentages and ranges were calculated based on the sum of the area of parcels within each MB_MonitoryCategory. As parcels with sufficient Urban Monitor coverage for Urban Forest analysis may vary between years making comparison difficult, a field called MBPercentage was added which shows the percentage of the total MB_MonitorCategory area (MBArea) covered by parcels with Urban Forest values for that year. Corresponding MBPercentage values for all published years were also added to inform users.

NOTE: As mesh block attributes were assigned based on parcel centroid, aggregated mesh block boundaries based on the parcels may not match ABS mesh block boundaries, and MBAreas will not match ABS mesh block areas.

Tags: Canopy, Grass, Trees, urban forest
Organization: Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage
Acid Sulfate Soil Risk Map, Estuaries (DWER-050)

Predicted risk of Acid Sulfate Soil (ASS) materials occurring within shallow soil layers in WA Estuaries (not covered by other Department of Environment ASS risk datasets) that could be disturbed by normal land development activities (drainage, excavations, dewatering). This map was developed to assist planners in assessing whether development applications require additional conditions for developments of sites where there is a risk disturbing or draining ASS/PASS. No distinction is made between potential and actual sites since the risk for further environmental degradation from disturbance or drainage is similar. For further information phone the Contaminated Sites hotline 1300 762 982.

This dataset was formerly known as Acid Sulfate Soil Risk Map, Estuaries (DER-008).
This dataset is no longer actively maintained by DWER.

Tags: Harvested, SLIP Future, acid, conservation, der-008, environment, estuaries, geology, pir, regulation, risk, soil, soils, sulphate
Organization: Department of Water and Environmental Regulation
CPS2 Plot Ratio Plan

This dataset contains spatial boundaries for Plot Ratio Plans relating to the City of Perth Planning Scheme No.2The Plot Ratio Plan determines the development potential on each lot under the City of Perth's planning authority.Plot ratio is written as a ratio i.e. a site of 1000msq with a plot ratio of 6:1 can develop a maximum of 6000msq of floor space. Therefore the higher the plot ratio of a site the greater its development potential.Definition under Schedule 4 “Plot ratio means the ratio of the floor area of a building to the area of land within the boundaries of the lots on which that building is located;”Please see https://perth.wa.gov.au/develop/planning-framework/planning-schemes and https://perth.wa.gov.au/develop/planning-framework/planning-policies-and-precinct-plans for more information regarding the City of Perth Planning Schemes.

Tags: 3857, CPS2, PLAN, PLANNING, PLANNING ODP, PLOT, PV - Public View, RATIO
Organization: City of Perth
Hydrographic Catchments - Subcatchments (DWER-030)

This dataset is the Western Australian component of a national Drainage Divisions and Basins dataset overseen by the Australian Water Resources Council. It is part of a hierarchical order of 4 datasets ranging from Subcatchments through Catchments and Basins to Divisions. The Subcatchments, Catchments and Basins are hierarchically ordered subsets of the Divisions dataset.

Catchment boundaries have been defined for more than 3400 key sites on streams throughout Western Australia. The Subcatchments dataset contains polygons derived 
from all the defined boundaries, while the Catchment, basin and division polygons are based on subsets of the same boundaries.

This dataset was formerly known as Hydrographic Catchments - Subcatchments (DOW-015)

Tags: DWER, Water, Water Supply, Water Surface
Organization: Department of Water and Environmental Regulation
CPS2 Special Control Areas

This dataset contains the Special Control Areas under the City of Perth City Planning Scheme No.2.Special Control Areas allow the City to apply planning provisions that are additional to those outlined within the CPS2 to a specific lot or lot/s. Special Control Areas are generally used to allow for future subdivision of a site while maintaining the integrity of CPS2 and the development approval in terms of plot ratio and car parking.Please see https://perth.wa.gov.au/develop/planning-framework/planning-schemes and https://perth.wa.gov.au/develop/planning-framework/planning-policies-and-precinct-plans for more information regarding the City of Perth Planning Schemes.

Tags: 3857, CPS2, PLANNING, PLANNING ODP, PV - Public View, SPECIAL CONTROL AREAS
Organization: City of Perth
Land Monitor Salinity Extent 1998 (DPIRD-098)

Vectorized version of the Land Monitor Salinity Extent – South West of Western Australia 1998 dataset.

Salinity mapped in raster format with 25-m pixels. The Land Monitor salinity mapping process uses satellite imagery, high-resolution topographic data, ground information and ancillary GIS data sets to map areas of severely salt-affected land identified in consecutive satellite (Landsat TM) scenes (Furby et al 2010). To update the 1990 and 1998 estimates, the spatial-temporal methodology was re-applied using the same approach but took advantage of the latest data and improved computational resources (Caccetta et al 2022). Any changes in the extent of salt affected land detected by Land Monitor in the updated salinity mapping are most likely within the severe salinity class and may represent either expansions of this class of salinity or improvements in the condition of severely salt affected land or in the reduction of commission errors (compared to the original mapping).

This data has converted the salt effected areas to a vector geodatabase. Additional post processing to remove urban areas has been applied.

Tags: saliinity
Organization: Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development
Foreshore Conditions - Assessment of Right Bank Protection Fencing (DWER-006)

Locations where an assessment of riverbank protection fencing has been undertaken and the exact spatial location of fences is unknown. The linework is based on river linework - it does not show the spatial location of fences. Selecting a point along the linework will indicate if there is a fence which protects the river bank and may indicate the condition of the fence. It should be noted that linework will appear where an assessment of riverbank protection fencing has been undertaken, even if no fence is present at that location. Left and right bank are relative to an observer facing downstream.

This dataset was formerly known as Foreshore Conditions - Assessment of Right Bank Protection Fencing (DOW-047)

Tags: DWER, Rivers Classification, Rivers Surveys, SLIP Future, Water
Organization: Department of Water and Environmental Regulation
XB Street Furniture App

This app is designed to help residents, visitors, and city planners locate and learn about public street furniture and amenities throughout the city. It provides detailed information and mapped locations of key infrastructure such as seating, picnic tables, BBQs, water fountains, bins, bbqs and playgrounds.

Tags: Appurtenances, Benches, Bins, COP, City of Perth, LGA boundary, Properties, Water Fountains, XB
Organization: City of Perth