AU Address Enrichment

Turn an Australian street address into one structured row of the public data that actually decides whether you'd rent, buy or build there — planning zone and overlays, flood risk, bushfire-prone status, contaminated land, NBN technology and fibre-upgrade eligibility, mobile-tower proximity, nearest public transport, designated government school zones, ABS SEIFA socio-economic indexes for the census block, and the electorates the address votes in (federal division, state district and upper-house region, council ward).

Every field comes from an official state or federal dataset, is queried live or from a bundled open-data extract, and carries its own source, licence and retrievedAt. No proxies, no paid geocoders, no scraping of listing portals.

Why

The information exists, but it is spread across six or more government portals per state, each with its own map viewer and none with a batch interface. Real-estate listings don't show it. This Actor bundles it so that a renter, buyer, analyst or AI agent can screen a shortlist of addresses in one call.

Coverage

All seven states/territories with a public address layer are geocoded against that layer and parcel-snapped. NT has no keyless address or planning service and is reported as geocode_failed with an explicit reason (not charged).

Block	VIC	NSW	QLD	WA	SA	TAS	ACT	NT
Geocoding (authoritative address layer → parcel)	✅ Vicmap	✅ SIX	✅ LPPF	✅ Landgate	✅ SAGAF	✅ LIST	✅ ACTmapi	❌
Planning zone + scheme	✅	✅ LEP	✅ 5 SEQ councils¹	✅ LPS + MRS + R-code	✅ P&D Code	✅ LPS	✅ Territory Plan	❌
Overlays	✅	✅ 16 EPI layers	✅ council overlays¹	✅	✅	✅ codes	✅	❌
Bushfire-prone	✅ BPA	✅ RFS + EPI	✅ council¹ (with distance)	✅ DFES BPA	✅	✅	✅ 2026	❌
Flood — modelled 1 % AEP	✅ FloodZoom	⚠️ 10 LGAs²	⚠️ council flood overlay¹	✅ DWER	✅	✅ SES hazard + depth	✅	❌
Flood — observed history	✅	—	✅ Brisbane 1974/2011/2022	—	—	—	—	❌
Contaminated land / EPA	✅	✅ EPA registers⁵	—	—	—	—	—	—
NBN technology + upgrade eligibility	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Mobile-tower proximity (ACMA)	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Nearest public transport stop	✅	✅ statewide³	✅ SEQ	✅ Transperth	✅ Adelaide Metro	✅ statewide incl. ferry	✅ bus + light rail	❌
School zones — primary / year 7 / year 12	✅ / ✅ / ✅	✅ / ✅ / ✅	✅ / ✅ / ✅	—	—	✅ / ⚠️⁴ / —	✅ / ✅ / ✅	❌
ABS SA1 + SEIFA 2021	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Electorates — federal / state / upper / ward	✅ ✅ ✅ ✅	✅ ✅ ◦ —⁶	✅ ✅ ◦ ✅	⚠️ ⚠️ ◦ —⁶	⚠️ ✅ ◦ ✅	✅ ✅ ✅ ◦	⚠️ ✅ ◦ ◦	⚠️ ✅ ◦ ✅⁷

¹ QLD planning and flood are council-published only — Queensland has no statewide point-queryable zoning, flood or bushfire layer (FloodCheck is a study index, QLUMP land use is 2012–13 and too coarse). Covered councils: Brisbane, Gold Coast, Logan, Moreton Bay, Sunshine Coast — the five largest in South East Queensland. Every other QLD address returns planning and flood as unsupported, never a not_found that would read as "no constraints here". Ipswich is not covered: the council publishes no queryable planning or flood service. Brisbane overlay and flood queries intersect the whole snapped lot (as the council's own property report does), so a lot straddling two flood planning areas reports both, most severe first. ² NSW has no keyless statewide flood layer; the EPI Flood Planning Area covers 10 LGAs and everywhere else returns unsupported — never not_found. ³ NSW stops come from the TfNSW Timetables Complete GTFS bundle (statewide: train, metro, light rail, bus, coach, ferry), baked into the image at data-refresh time (vintage 2026-08-31); school-bus-only stops are excluded by design. ⁴ TAS year 7 is only defined for District High Schools; senior colleges publish no intake areas. ⁶ Electorates: ✅ = gazetted legal boundaries (the AEC's own March 2025 divisions via the Digital Atlas of Australia for federal; the state's own layer for districts and wards); ⚠️ = ABS ASGS 2025 mesh-block approximation (WA state districts only, because Landgate's electoral layers are under a personal-use licence); ◦ = a fact rather than a lookup (statewide Legislative Council in NSW/SA/WA, no upper house in QLD/ACT/NT, no wards in TAS, no councils in the ACT); — = unsupported (NSW publishes no ward polygon layer; WA's is licence-restricted and incomplete). See "Reading electorates". ⁷ NT electorates answer for lat/lng input only — NT still has no address geocoder. ⁵ NSW EPA notified-sites register (2,007 sites under CLM Act s.60, with EPA's regulated-status classification), environment protection licences, and WARRP landfills. NSW has no Environmental Audit Overlay and no spatial site-audit register, so environmentalAuditOverlay is always null and type: 'audit' never appears. Sites EPA has notified but decided not to regulate are typed notified_site, distinct from priority_site (under an actual CLM/POEO Act instrument). WARRP lists only facilities currently reporting waste movements — a clear landfill result does not rule out a closed tip nearby.

Where a block isn't available for an address's state or council it is reported as status: "unsupported" — never as a blank that could be mistaken for "no risk".

Unit / strata addresses. Unit addresses resolve in six of seven states. WA is the exception: Landgate's public address layer has no unit column, so a unit address resolves to its building and matchedInput is false. Where a strata block has no base address record (common in QLD, TAS and the ACT; in SA, e.g. 260 Prospect Rd Prospect is unit 1 + common property), a unit-less input resolves to the block or to a unit on it — the correct parcel for every zone, flood and overlay lookup — again with matchedInput: false and an address.note saying so. Lot 5 12 Foo St parses the lot separately (lot is never sent as a unit).

Local government area. address.lga is populated in all seven states. The name is reproduced as each state publishes it, so casing and style vary by jurisdiction (MARIBYRNONG, BLUE MOUNTAINS, Brisbane City, TOWN OF CLAREMONT, CITY OF PROSPECT, Hobart; in the ACT, which has no local government, the ACTmapi district CANBERRA CENTRAL).

Input

{
    "addresses": [
        "156 Bulleen Rd, Bulleen VIC 3105",
        "31 Marrickville Rd, Marrickville NSW 2204",
        "36 Baroona Rd, Milton QLD 4064",
        "10 Bay View Tce, Claremont WA 6010"
    ]
}

• addresses — up to 5 000 strings. Include suburb and state or postcode. Unit addresses (1/79 Ormond Rd) are resolved to the individual unit's property record.
• records — alternative structured form [{ "id": "…", "address": "…" }] or [{ "id": "…", "lat": -37.81, "lng": 144.87, "address": "VIC" }] (coordinates skip geocoding; the state must still be named).
• blocks — subset of planning, flood, contaminatedLand, connectivity, transport, schools, demographics, electorates. Default: all.
• nbn — set false to skip the NBN lookup (it relies on nbn co's public address-check endpoint, which is not a documented API).
• concurrency — 1–20, default 8.

Output

One dataset item per input address. Top level:

field	meaning
status	ok · partial (at least one block unknown) · geocode_failed
address	formatted (one national shape — see below), sourceFormatted (the state layer's own string), state, LGA (ACT: district), parcel id (VIC PFI, NSW lot/DP, QLD lot-plan, WA PIN, SA parcel id, TAS PID, ACT block key), ABS mesh block (VIC), coordinates (parcel centroid when snapped; raw geocode point kept in rawGeocode), matchedInput, note (only when the row is not exactly the address asked for)
planning	zone {code, description, scheme}, overlays[] (LSIO, HO9, DDO5 …, each with a coarse class — see below), bushfireProne
flood	modelled1pctAep (statewide 1 % AEP extent), observedHistory (recorded inundation), parcelDetail (level / depth / velocity where a model exists), planningOverlayAgrees, confidence, disclaimer
contaminatedLand	EPA priority sites, audits, restricted groundwater, landfills, licensed premises — split into onParcel and nearby (regulatory) and historical (directory scrapes), plus nearestActive (most significant, severity-ranked) and nearestActiveByType summaries
connectivity	nbn (technology at the premises, upgrade eligibility) and mobile (nearest site per carrier, bands, 5G presence)
transport	nearest station, tram, bus, coach with distance in metres
schools	designated government primary, year7, year12 zone school with website
demographics	SA1, SA2–SA4 names, SEIFA 2021 scores and deciles (IRSD, IRSAD, IER, IEO)
electorates	federal (House of Representatives division), stateLower (state/territory district), stateUpper (Legislative Council region, or the statewide chamber, or null where unicameral), ward (council ward or division) — each a tri-state sub-block with name, chamber, members, boundaries (which redistribution answered) and, where a state layer answered, absAgrees
meta	retrievedAt, timing, every source used with its licence and status, data vintages

Address fields — what to key on

• address.formatted is the same shape in every state: [UNIT/]NUMBER STREET TYPE LOCALITY STATE [POSTCODE], upper case, no punctuation — 38 KINGSTON STREET YARRAVILLE VIC 3013, 4/23 BAROONA ROAD MILTON QLD 4064, 1/260 PROSPECT ROAD PROSPECT SA 5082. Key joins on this. (v0.3 emitted each layer's own string here — Vicmap without the state, QLD without the postcode, SA with commas and SOUTH AUSTRALIA; consumers keyed on the v0.3 value must re-key.) The layer's own string is still there as address.sourceFormatted. The postcode is omitted when neither the layer nor your input supplied one — it is never guessed.
• matchedInput: false + address.note means the row is enriched for the block, not the exact address you gave. The usual cause is a unit that is not in the state's address layer (a listing's 10/14 that the state layer numbers 201/14, say): the actor retries the base address, and every zone, overlay, flood and contamination answer is a property of the block anyway. connectivity.nbn is queried for the unit as you typed it first; when nbn's address search has no such unit either, it falls back to the building's record with its own connectivity.nbn.data.matchedInput: false and note — the technology type is a property of the building for every unit in it. Filter on matchedInput (either one) if you need exact matches only.

Planning overlays — class

Every overlay carries a coarse class so you can keep the constraints and drop the administrative ones without a per-state code list: hazard (flood, bushfire, erosion, salinity, coastal, acid sulfate soils, contamination/EAO, noise), heritage, environment (vegetation, landscape, biodiversity, waterways), design (DDO/DPO, character, height/FSR/lot size), contributions (DCPO/ICPO — a levy on development, on every lot in many inner-Melbourne municipalities, not a constraint on use), infrastructure (public acquisition, airport environs, parking). An overlay the classifier does not recognise has no class — keep it; absent does not mean administrative.

Tri-state semantics — read this before filtering

Each block and sub-block has a status:

status	means
ok	the source answered and returned data for this point
not_found	the source answered and this point is outside every feature — a genuine negative
unknown	the source failed (timeout, outage, decode error) — not a negative
unsupported	no adapter exists yet for this state × layer — not a negative

Composite blocks (planning, flood, contaminatedLand) report ok whenever their source answered; the hit or miss lives in the sub-fields (flood.data.modelled1pctAep.status, contaminatedLand.data.onParcel). So "not in any mapped flood extent" is flood.status: ok + modelled1pctAep.status: not_found in every state — filter on the sub-field, not the block. Single-feature blocks (schools.*, demographics, connectivity.nbn, each transport category) use not_found directly.

Some sources can only confirm, never clear: flood.observedHistory records inundation that was surveyed after past events; not_found there means "no record", not "never flooded". The flood.confidence field weighs the sub-signals on one scale across all states — it is not a probability of flooding:

confidence	means
high	positive corroborated by a second layer, a parcel-level depth/level, or a regulatory class above the outer band (VIC extent + overlay; TAS hazard raster + depth; BCC FHA_R1–R4)
medium	positive from one authoritative layer; or a negative from complete-coverage modelling with a second layer or parcel resolution agreeing (VIC, TAS, BCC double-negative)
low	negative from a single layer, from partial-coverage mapping (WA studied catchments, Moreton Bay, ACT), or from a policy overlay rather than a model (SA; an SA hit is never above medium)
unknown	the primary source failed, or does not cover this location (NSW outside the 10 LGAs on the EPI Flood Planning Map)

A parcel-level flood level from a Melbourne Water draft consultation layer (parcelDetail.dataStatus: draft_consultation) is a positive but never lifts confidence above medium on its own — those layers are draft, in Melbourne Water's words. flood.planningOverlayAgrees (VIC) is true when the modelled extent and the planning scheme's flood overlay (LSIO/SBO/FO) are both positive, false when exactly one is, and null when neither is or the overlay query failed — an all-clear address shows null, not a false that looks like disagreement.

Reading contaminatedLand

• onParcel (≤ 5 m / inside the polygon) and nearby (within each register's radius: 500 m for sites, audits, PRSAs and restricted groundwater; 1 km for landfills and licensed premises) hold regulatory records only.
• historical holds VIC's Sands & McDougall 1896–1974 trade-directory entries within 100 m. One to four of these sit near every inner-Melbourne lot (a 1950s "Creswell, Mrs E." at 56 m is typical); they are context for a site history, not a contamination signal. Empty in states with no such register.
• A nearby completed audit is the inner-suburban norm — half of the inner-west Melbourne addresses in the first dogfood run had one within 250 m, because former industrial land is audited before it becomes housing. It is evidence that land was assessed, not that contamination remains. What matters is an on-parcel item, or a nearby site under current regulation.
• nearestActive is that reduction done for you: the most significant hit under current regulation across both lists, with distance and whether it is on the parcel, or null when none is within the queried radii. Ranking is by severity tier first — priority_site = notified_site = landfill, then prsa, then licensed_premises, then groundwater_restricted — and nearest within the tier. Nearest-by-distance (what v0.4 did) let a restricted-groundwater zone, which nine of 25 inner-west addresses had within 250 m, hide a priority site a few dozen metres further out.
• nearestActiveByType is the un-reduced version: the nearest hit of each active type, keyed by type. A type missing from the map has nothing within its register's radius. Read this when you want the groundwater zone and the priority site.

Reading electorates

• Every sub-block names the electorate as its source spells it (Fraser, Footscray, Wattle Ward, Division 5), the chamber it elects to, the members it returns (1 for a single-member seat; 5 for a Victorian Council region or an ACT electorate; 7 for a Tasmanian Assembly division) and boundaries — which redistribution or gazettal the layer holds and, where the source says so, the elections it applies to. Compare boundaries across rows and over time: a redistribution changes it before it changes any name. Known dates: Queensland's June 2026 state redistribution applies from October 2028 (the layer correctly still holds 2017); Tasmania's federal redistribution determines 8 October 2026 with no name changes; SA council wards refresh for the November 2026 elections.
• Legal boundaries everywhere they are openly published, ABS otherwise. Federal divisions are the AEC's own March 2025 boundaries (CC BY 4.0 via the Digital Atlas of Australia; NSW, QLD and TAS republish the same set and answer from theirs). VIC (Vicmap), NSW (Spatial Services), QLD (QSpatial), SA (Location SA), TAS (LIST), ACT (ACTmapi) and NT (Geoscape via the Digital Atlas) answer the state district from their gazetted layers. The exceptions are WA's state district, and any field whose primary layer is down: there the answer is the ABS ASGS 2025 Commonwealth / State Electoral Division, which the ABS itself calls a mesh-block approximation: a lot on the edge of a division can be attributed to its neighbour, by a few metres to a street. source.id starts with abs. when that is the case.
• absAgrees is present whenever a legal-boundary layer answered: true when the ABS approximation of the same thing names the same electorate, false when it does not (a boundary lot, or the ABS still on an older vintage — expected in SA, where the 2026 House of Assembly boundaries post-date ABS SED 2025), null when the ABS layer failed. If a state layer fails, the ABS answers instead and both boundaries and the sub-block error say so.
• stateUpper is a region lookup only in Victoria (8 regions × 5) and Tasmania (15 single-member Legislative Council divisions). NSW, SA and WA elect their Legislative Councils statewide, so the sub-block is ok with statewide: true and the chamber size (WA's six regions were abolished from the 2025 election). Queensland, the ACT and the NT are unicameral: stateUpper is null — there is no chamber to be not_found in.
• ward is ok with undivided: true and the council's name when the council elects every councillor at large (22 Victorian councils incl. Melbourne; 56 of 78 Queensland councils; every Tasmanian council; 12 NT councils; the SA councils outside the Wards layer). not_found with a reason means no council exists at the point (unincorporated land such as French Island; the ACT, which has no local government). unsupported is NSW (no government publishes a ward polygon layer; the NSWEC's address finder is street-level text matching and is not used) and WA (Landgate's ward layer is licence-restricted and self-described as incomplete).
• Electorates are evaluated at the parcel point like everything else — Yarraville is split between the Footscray and Williamstown districts, and 36 Baroona Rd Milton is in Brisbane / Cooper while a point 400 m away is in Ryan / Maiwar. Suburb-level lookups get these wrong.

Example (abridged — a real row from the v0.4 run; every block also carries source, retrievedAt, durationMs)

{
    "input": {
        "address": "36 Baroona Rd, Milton QLD 4064"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "address": {
        "formatted": "36 BAROONA ROAD MILTON QLD 4064",
        "sourceFormatted": "36 Baroona Road Milton QLD",
        "state": "QLD",
        "lga": "Brisbane City",
        "lat": -27.468398358783475,
        "lng": 153.00235966242855,
        "parcelId": "1RP124388",
        "matchedInput": true,
        "parcelSnapped": true
    },
    "planning": {
        "status": "ok",
        "data": {
            "zone": {
                "code": "NC",
                "description": "Centre / Neighbourhood centre",
                "scheme": "Brisbane City Plan 2014"
            },
            "overlays": [
                {
                    "code": "FHA_R5",
                    "description": "Brisbane River flood planning area 5",
                    "class": "hazard"
                },
                {
                    "code": "FHA_R4",
                    "description": "Brisbane River flood planning area 4",
                    "class": "hazard"
                },
                {
                    "code": "NBH_CHA",
                    "description": "Neighbourhood character",
                    "class": "design"
                },

                "…"
            ],
            "bushfireProne": {
                "status": "not_found"
            }
        }
    },
    "flood": {
        "status": "ok",
        "data": {
            "modelled1pctAep": {
                "status": "unsupported"
            },
            "councilRegulatory": {
                "status": "ok",
                "code": "FHA_R4",
                "description": "Brisbane River flood planning area 4; lot also intersects FHA_R5"
            },
            "councilRisk": {
                "status": "ok",
                "level": "Low"
            },
            "observedHistory": {
                "status": "not_found"
            },
            "confidence": "high"
        }
    },
    "contaminatedLand": {
        "status": "unsupported"
    },
    "connectivity": {
        "status": "ok",
        "data": {
            "nbn": {
                "status": "ok",
                "data": {
                    "techType": "FTTP"
                }
            },
            "mobile": {
                "status": "ok",
                "data": {
                    "telstra": {
                        "nearestSiteM": 150,
                        "has5g": true
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "transport": {
        "status": "ok",
        "data": {
            "station": {
                "name": "Milton station, platform 4",
                "distanceM": 277,
                "mode": "TRAIN"
            },
            "bus": {
                "name": "Baroona Rd at Baroona Shops, stop 7",
                "distanceM": 26,
                "mode": "BUS"
            },
            "ferry": {
                "name": "Milton ferry terminal",
                "distanceM": 661,
                "mode": "FERRY"
            }
        }
    },
    "schools": {
        "status": "ok",
        "data": {
            "primary": {
                "status": "ok",
                "data": {
                    "name": "Milton SS"
                }
            },
            "year7": {
                "status": "ok",
                "data": {
                    "name": "Kelvin Grove State College"
                }
            },
            "year12": {
                "status": "ok",
                "data": {
                    "name": "Kelvin Grove State College"
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "demographics": {
        "status": "ok",
        "data": {
            "sa1": "30504113516",
            "sa2Name": "Paddington - Milton",
            "seifa": {
                "irsad": {
                    "score": 1091,
                    "decileAus": 9
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "meta": {
        "durationMs": 2373,
        "sources": "[31 entries, each with id / url / licence / attribution / status]"
    }
}

Pricing

Pay-per-event: one enriched_address event per address that geocodes successfully, regardless of how many blocks you request. Addresses that cannot be matched to the authoritative address layer are returned as geocode_failed rows and not charged. No platform-usage pass-through.

Sources and licences

source	licence	attribution
Vicmap Address, Vicmap Planning, Bushfire Prone Area, Victorian Flood History, EPA Victoria Unearthed layers (via DEECA open-data WFS)	CC BY 4.0	© State of Victoria (DTP / DEECA / EPA Victoria / EMV)
DEECA FloodZoom 1 % AEP flood extent	public web service	© State of Victoria (DEECA) — "If regions are shown as flood free in this layer, it does not necessarily mean they are entirely flood free."
Melbourne Water flood modelling (Lower Maribyrnong and consultation layers)	no open licence; no-warranty disclaimer; consultation layers are draft	© Melbourne Water
Victorian Government school zones, findmyschool school directory	CC BY 4.0	© State of Victoria (Department of Education)
DTP public transport stops	CC BY 4.0	© State of Victoria (Department of Transport and Planning)
ABS ASGS 2021, SEIFA 2021; ASGS Edition 3 Non ABS Structures 2025 — Commonwealth Electoral Divisions, State Electoral Divisions (mesh-block approximations)	CC BY 4.0	Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics
Electorates — VIC Vicmap Admin (State Assembly Polygon 2022, Ward Polygon 2024); NSW Administrative Boundaries (State Electoral District, Federal Electoral Division — CC BY 3.0 AU); QLD QSpatial Administrative Boundaries (federal, state, LG divisions, BCC wards); SA Location SA State Electorates 2026 / Wards via SAPPA; TAS LIST Electoral Boundaries + Legislative Council Areas (CC BY 3.0 AU); ACTmapi ACT Electoral Division; NT via Geoscape Administrative Boundaries on the Digital Atlas of Australia	CC BY 4.0 unless noted	© State of Victoria (DEECA) / © State of NSW (Spatial Services) / © State of Queensland (NRMMRRD; ECQ) © Change Commission © AEC / © Government of South Australia (DHUD) / "Electoral Boundaries" from theLIST © State of Tasmania / © Australian Capital Territory / © Geoscape Australia
ACMA Register of Radiocommunications Licences	ACMA RRL licence (derivatives permitted, attribution required)	Based on Australian Communications and Media Authority information
nbn co address lookup	public endpoint, no published API terms; requests are rate-limited to 2 in flight and sent via Crawlee's got-scraping client	nbn co
NSW: SIX Property + Cadastre + Administrative Boundaries, ePlanning Principal Planning / Hazard / Protection layers, RFS Bush Fire Prone Lands, School Finder catchments (CARTO), TfNSW Timetables Complete GTFS (Open Data Hub), EPA notified sites / EPLs / WARRP landfills	CC BY 4.0	© State of New South Wales (Spatial Services; DPHI; RFS; Department of Education)
QLD: Land Parcel Property Framework, Brisbane City Plan 2014 overlays (BCC open data), Moreton Bay planning-scheme overlays, Gold Coast City Plan v13 + 2026 flood services, DoE school catchments, TransLink SEQ GTFS	CC BY 4.0	© State of Queensland (Department of Resources; DoE; TMR) / © Brisbane City Council / © City of Moreton Bay / © City of Gold Coast
QLD: Logan Planning Scheme 2015 v9.2 property report; Sunshine Coast Planning Scheme 2024 layers	CC BY 3.0 AU (Logan stated on the AGOL item; Sunshine Coast stated on the council's other spatial items, not on the 2024-scheme items themselves — confirm before relying on it)	© Logan City Council / © Sunshine Coast Council
WA: Landgate SLIP — Cadastre Address (LGATE-002), Local Government Authority boundaries (LGATE-233), LPS/Region Scheme zones and R-codes (DPLH), Bush Fire Prone Areas (DFES), DWER floodplain layers, PTA stops	CC BY 4.0	© Western Australian Land Information Authority (Landgate) and contributing agencies
SA: SAGAF valuation locator, SAPPA Property and Planning Atlas (parcels incl. strata units, councils, Planning & Design Code zones/overlays, flood awareness, Adelaide Metro stops)	undocumented public endpoints (Referer-gated); no open licence stated	© Government of South Australia (DHUD / Land Services SA / DIT)
TAS: LIST address geocodes + cadastre, PlanningOnline zones and code overlays, SES flood hazard/depth, DECYP school intake areas	CC BY 3.0 AU	© State of Tasmania (Land Tasmania; Tasmanian Planning Commission; SES; DECYP)
TAS: Public Transport Tasmania GTFS	CC BY 4.0	© State of Tasmania (Department of State Growth)
ACT: ACTmapi addresses, blocks, Territory Plan zones/overlays, bushfire prone areas, flood extents, priority enrolment areas; Transport Canberra GTFS + light-rail stations	CC BY 4.0	© Australian Capital Territory

Mobile figures are infrastructure proximity (distance to the nearest licensed base-station site per carrier), not a coverage or signal-strength prediction.

Limitations

• Coverage differs by state and, in QLD, by council (see table). Use status to distinguish "not in overlay" from "not yet supported".
• Test addresses copied from consumer geocoders may not exist: street-interpolated points (20 Prospect Rd, Prospect SA, 5 Wattle St, Lyneham ACT) are refused by the authoritative layers rather than snapped to a neighbour.
• SA planning is ~24 point queries per address (SAPPA group layers can't be queried as one). Requests are capped at 4 in flight per host regardless of concurrency, so a large SA/NSW batch is throttled by the server, not by you; raising concurrency past ~8 mostly helps mixed-state batches.
• Planning data is the gazetted scheme layer; it does not replace a Planning Property Report or a section 32. Outside Brisbane, overlays are evaluated at the parcel centroid; a large or irregular lot may touch overlay classes the centroid misses. In Brisbane, overlays are evaluated against the whole lot polygon (inset 0.5 m so shared fence lines don't count), which also reports thin genuine overlaps — at 36 Baroona Rd Milton a character overlay covering 2.8 % of the lot and Brisbane River FPA 4 covering 0.4 % both appear; the council's own report lists the latter but not the former.
• Independent check: zones and key overlays for one address per state were compared against each state's own property-report UI on 2026-09-01 (research/ground-truth.md); ACT could not be UI-verified (the new ACTmapi viewer exposes no form controls to automation).
• Flood modelling is a 1 % AEP screening layer. Larger floods occur; areas without studies show as not_found, not clear.
• Parcel snapping uses the cadastral parcel that contains the geocoded point. Large or irregular lots may straddle several zones; overlays are reported for the centroid.
• Electorate boundaries from the ABS layers (source.id starting abs.) are mesh-block approximations of the legal boundaries; the electoral commissions' own lookups are authoritative for a lot on a division edge. The ABS re-issues these structures each year (SED/LGA around October, CED around December 2026 under ASGS Edition 4); the actor is pinned to the 2025 release and boundaries says so.
• Government endpoints are shared infrastructure; the per-host cap (4, places.nbnco.net.au 2) is deliberate. Transient outages degrade the affected block to unknown rather than failing the run.

Notes for agent / MCP consumers

• Read the row count from the dataset (totalItemCount on get-dataset-items), not from the run summary: Apify's call-actor summary has reported itemCount: 20 for a 25-row dataset a second after SUCCEEDED.
• The MCP get-dataset-items fields= projection silently drops arrays of objects — planning.overlays, contaminatedLand.nearby and the EPA hits vanish without error. Fetch full items and trim with omit= instead.