FEATURE TYPE (FEATURETYPE) [String; No; 32; Pop_Req] The code which identifies the type of topographic feature represented

Building Area

NAME (NAME) [String; Yes; 60; Pop_Dep] The name of the building. (see Geodatabase Rules for population requirements.)

BUILDING FUNCTION (BUILDINGFUNCTION) [String; No; 50; Pop_Req]
Abbatoir
Ambulance Station
Aged Care Facility
Community Centre
Conference Centre
Control Tower
Day Care Centres/Kindergartens
Doctors Surgery
Dwelling
Embassy
Emergency Services Centre
Fire Station
Historical Building
Hospital
Place of Worship
Police Station
Post Office
Power Station
Public Hall
Refinery
Saw Mill
School
SES Facility
Shopping Centre
Special Care Facility
Sports Centre
Substation
Telephone Exchange
Tourist Information Centre
Other or Function Unknown

CLASSIFICATION (CLASS) [String; No;40; Pop_Req] The entities classification or status;
Applicable field entries

Abandoned
Abandoned Homestead
Operational
Ruin

FEATURE RELIABILITY DATE (FEATURERELIABILITY) [Date; Yes; 0; 0; 36; Pop_Req]
The reliability date of the spatial object; Date to be adjusted only during spatial change or verification of an existing feature location or the capture of a new feature (see Section 1 Chapter 3.6);

Most Recent Reliability Date of Revision Source Material (or Base Material/digitial data for inital capture) used for Spatial Verification

FEATURE SOURCE (FEATURESOURCE) [String; Yes; 50; Pop_Req]
This primary source used to determine the spatial location of a feature (For use in TOPO100K only;).

ATTRIBUTE RELIABILITY (ATTRIBUTERELIABILITY) [Date; Yes; 0; 0; 36; Pop_Req]
The reliability date of the attribute object; Date to be adjusted only during attribute change or verification of an existing feature's item values or the capture of a new feature (see Section 1 Chapter 3.6);

Most Recent Reliability Date of Revision Source Material (or Base Material/digitial data for inital capture) used for Attribute Verification.

ATTRIBUTE SOURCE (ATTRIBUTESOURCE) [String; Yes; 50; Pop_Req]
The primary source used to populate the attribute fields of a feature (For use in TOPO100K only;).

PLANIMETRIC ACCURACY (PLANIMETRICACCURACY) [Short Integer; No; 4; Pop_Req] The standard deviation of the horizontal positional accuracy.The default value, when not specified in project instructions, will be as follows;
10 / 40 / 100

DATA SOURCE (SOURCE) [String; No; 50; Pop_Req] This is the official name of the agency that originally captured the spatial object for the TOPO250K NTDB (For use in TOPO250K only) ; The default value when unknown or not specified in project instructions will be GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA.

FEATURE CREATION DATE (CREATIONDATE) [Date; Yes; 0; 0; 36; Pop_Aut] Date of creation of feature in the database. This field will be entered/edited automatically by GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA.

FEATURE RETIREMENT DATE (RETIREMENTDATE) [Date;Yes; 0; 0; 36; Pop_Aut] Date of retirement of feature in the database.This field will be entered/edited automatically by GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA.

PERSISTENT IDENTIFIER (PID) [Long Integer; Yes; 8; Pop_Aut] This field will be entered/edited automatically by GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA.

SYMBOL (SYMBOL) [Short Integer; No; 4; Pop_Req] (Link to Symbol Dictionary)Symbol number/s applicable;

26 - Operational/Abandoned building & Abandoned homestead
0 - Ruin

TEXT NOTE (TEXTNOTE) [String; Yes; 50; Pop_Dep] Descriptive note to appear on map. Text Note field should be added when directed in the Geodatabase Rules or if descriptive information is known about a feature that is not covered by any other item in the feature class and expands on the definition of the feature.

At 1:100 000 buildings captured from the base material/digital data will be shown unless there is strong evidence they no longer exist. This capture is subject to data generalisation principles, appropriate for this scale.

At 1:250 000 all feature occurrences existing in the TOPO250K NTDB will be retained unless there is clear evidence they no longer exist.

New buildings will be captured from supplied imagery where there is strong evidence on the image to support the interpretation or where other revision source material assists the interpretation.

A group of buildings that cannot be shown individually may also be shown by a representative pattern of building features. A group of buildings will not be aggregated to form a building area.

A significant building such as a papermill that cannot be drawn to scale will be shown using symbol 40. Significant buildings should have landmark value. It is not intended that farm or poultry sheds would be considered significant, particularly in areas where there are many such features. Some examples of significant buildings may be: power stations, hospitals, oil refineries. In remote areas features may take on more significance than in populated centres for example: large roadhouses, paper mills, etc.

At 1:100 000 operational buildings of known function should have the item 'BUILDINGFUNCTION" populated. Buildings whose function is not known or not in the represented list should be coded as “other or function unknown”. Text_notes should reflect the function of the building.

The Building Function item is to be used only at 1:100 000 scale. At 1:250 000 the item will not be applicable. The Building Function 'Dwelling' is defined as a place of residence.

Operational homesteads will be shown as a Homestead feature type and cloned as a building point subject to the rules for inclusion of homesteads. Operational homesteads that fail the rules for inclusion as Homestead feature type may still be shown as unnamed buildings. Abandoned homesteads will be named in a similar manner to the method of capture for Homestead feature type in reference to Appendix C. (i.e In densely settled areas Homesteads are not captured unless considered significant (e.g. historical), therefore buildings of classification 'Abandoned Homestead' should not be named in densely settled regions unless they are also considered significant).

Outstations will be considered as Homesteads.

Outcamps will be considered as Place Names. If buildings are present they should be shown as building areas with no text_note. The Place Name should be coincident with a designated building.

Substations will only be included as buildings when there is clear evidence of it meeting the definition of a building. Substations shall not be named unless instructions are provided to do so by GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA.

Buildings other than homesteads may be textnoted where the description expands on the distinctive function category eg. Building Function is 'Fire Station' and Textnote is 'rural' or Building Function is 'Other or Function Unknown' and Textnote is 'museum' or Building Function is 'School' and Textnote is 'Technical College'.

Buildings other than homesteads will be named where named in the base material/digital data or where they are of historical, cultural or national significance. E.g. Australian War Memorial, National Art Gallery, Sydney Opera House.

Operational homesteads will be shown by the feature type ‘Homestead’ subject to the rules for inclusion of homesteads. Abandoned homesteads and operational homesteads that fail the rules for inclusion as Homesteads feature type may still be shown as buildings.

Only permanent structures will be captured as buildings within Caravan Parks.  

Buildings will not be shown within Built-up areas. Building Areas will be shown in 'defined holes' in Built Up Area.

Each Building Area polygon will contain a single building point feature centred within its extents.

Building Areas will be shown in Recreation Area and Cemetery Area.

If black type falls unavoidably over the building symbol, the feature’s symbol attribute will be ‘0’ (non-printing).

Buildings other than homesteads will be named or labelled where they have a distinctive function, eg. ‘factory’, ‘sawmill’, ‘Wikipin Agricultural College’, or where they were labelled on the latest previous edition map.

Operational homesteads will be shown by the feature class Locality code ‘Homestead’ subject to the rules for inclusion of homesteads. Abandoned homesteads and operational homesteads that fail the rules for inclusion as Locality homesteads may still be shown as buildings.

Abandoned homesteads will be labelled ‘abandoned’.  

When a Landmark Area and Ruin to Scale are adjacent then the ruin boundary symbology should take precedence. When a Landmark Area or Ruin to Scale is adjacent to an operational building then the symbology for Landmark Area or Ruin to Scale should take precedence.

Building Point, Vertical Obstruction, Homestead, Place Name, Landmark Area

Section 2 chapter 2.2.3
Section 3 chapters 5.11.2, 5.19, 6.5.2 and 5.18
Appendix U chapter 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.4, 2.3.3, 2.4.4

FEATURE TYPE (FEATURETYPE) [String; No; 32; Pop_Req] The code which identifies the type of topographic feature represented

Building Point

NAME (NAME) [String; Yes; 60; Pop_Dep] The name of the building. (see Geodatabase Rules for population requirements.)

BUILDING FUNCTION (BUILDINGFUNCTION) [String; No; 50; Pop_Req]
Abbatoir
Ambulance Station
Aged Care Facility
Community Centre
Conference Centre
Control Tower
Day Care Centres/Kindergartens
Doctors Surgery
Dwelling
Embassy
Emergency Services Centre
Fire Station
Historical Building
Hospital
Place of Worship
Police Station
Post Office
Power Station
Public Hall
Refinery
Saw Mill
School
SES Facility
Shopping Centre
Special Care Facility
Sports Centre
Substation
Telephone Exchange
Tourist Information Centre
Other or Function Unknown

CLASSIFICATION (CLASS) [String; No;40; Pop_Req] The entities classification or status;
Applicable field entries

Abandoned
Abandoned Homestead
Operational
Ruin

FEATURE RELIABILITY DATE (FEATURERELIABILITY) [Date; Yes; 0; 0; 36; Pop_Req]
The reliability date of the spatial object; Date to be adjusted only during spatial change or verification of an existing feature location or the capture of a new feature (see Section 1 Chapter 3.6);

Most Recent Reliability Date of Revision Source Material (or Base Material/digitial data for inital capture) used for Spatial Verification

FEATURE SOURCE (FEATURESOURCE) [String; Yes; 50; Pop_Req]
This primary source used to determine the spatial location of a feature (For use in TOPO100K only;).

ATTRIBUTE RELIABILITY (ATTRIBUTERELIABILITY) [Date; Yes; 0; 0; 36; Pop_Req]
The reliability date of the attribute object; Date to be adjusted only during attribute change or verification of an existing feature's item values or the capture of a new feature (see Section 1 Chapter 3.6);

Most Recent Reliability Date of Revision Source Material (or Base Material/digitial data for inital capture) used for Attribute Verification.

ATTRIBUTE SOURCE (ATTRIBUTESOURCE) [String; Yes; 50; Pop_Req]
The primary source used to populate the attribute fields of a feature (For use in TOPO100K only;).

PLANIMETRIC ACCURACY (PLANIMETRICACCURACY) [Short Integer; No; 4; Pop_Req] The standard deviation of the horizontal positional accuracy.The default value, when not specified in project instructions, will be as follows;
10 / 40 / 100

DATA SOURCE (SOURCE) [String; No; 50; Pop_Req] This is the official name of the agency that originally captured the spatial object for the TOPO250K NTDB (For use in TOPO250K only) ; The default value when unknown or not specified in project instructions will be GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA.

UNIQUE FEATURE IDENTIFIER (UFI) [String; Yes; 10; Pop_Aut] Alphanumeric feature identifier defined for GEODATA SERIES 2 (For use in TOPO250K only;) (see Section 3 chapter 5.14)

FEATURE CREATION DATE (CREATIONDATE) [Date; Yes; 0; 0; 36; Pop_Aut] Date of creation of feature in the database. This field will be entered/edited automatically by GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA.

FEATURE RETIREMENT DATE (RETIREMENTDATE) [Date;Yes; 0; 0; 36; Pop_Aut] Date of retirement of feature in the database.This field will be entered/edited automatically by GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA.

PERSISTENT IDENTIFIER (PID) [Long Integer; Yes; 8; Pop_Aut] This field will be entered/edited automatically by GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA.

SYMBOL (SYMBOL) [Short Integer; No; 4; Pop_Req] (Link to Symbol Dictionary)Symbol number/s applicable;

430 - Operational/Abandoned building & Abandoned homestead
41 – Ruin
40 – Significant Building
0 - non-printing

FEATURE WIDTH (FEATUREWIDTH) [Double; Yes; 8; 4; Pop_Dep]

Currently not used by symbology; 0

ORIENTATION (ORIENTATION) [Short Integer; Yes; 3; Pop_Dep] Orientation in whole degrees from East going anti-clockwise;
Currently not used by symbology; 0

TEXT NOTE (TEXTNOTE) [String; Yes; 50; Pop_Dep] Descriptive note to appear on map. Text Note field should be added when directed in the Geodatabase Rules or if descriptive information is known about a feature that is not covered by any other item in the feature class and expands on the definition of the feature.

At 1:100 000 buildings captured from the base material/digital data will be shown unless there is strong evidence they no longer exist. This capture is subject to data generalisation principles, appropriate for this scale.

At 1:250 000 all feature occurrences existing in the TOPO250K NTDB will be retained unless there is clear evidence they no longer exist.

A new homestead may be shown by a single feature representing a group of buildings, in which case it will be situated as to identify the main residence.

New buildings will be captured from supplied imagery where there is strong evidence on the image to support the interpretation or where other revision source material assists the interpretation.

The point entity will be used to represent the location of a group of buildings as well as an individual building. However, individual buildings will be shown as far as the scale permits.

A group of buildings that cannot be shown individually may also be shown by a representative pattern of building features. A group of buildings will not be aggregated to form a Building Area.

A significant building such as a papermill that cannot be drawn to scale will be shown using symbol 40. Significant buildings should have landmark value. It is not intended that farm or poultry sheds would be considered significant, particularly in areas where there are many such features. Some examples of significant buildings may be: power stations, hospitals, oil refineries. In remote areas features may take on more significance than in populated centres for example: large roadhouses, paper mills, etc.

At 1:100 000 operational buildings of known function should have the item 'BUILDINGFUNCTION" populated. Buildings whose function is not known or not in the represented list should be coded as “other or function unknown”. Text_notes should reflect the function of the building.

The Building Function item is to be used only at 1:100 000 scale. At 1:250 000 the item will not be applicable.The Building Function 'Dwelling' is defined as a place of residence.

Operational homesteads will be shown as a Homestead feature type and cloned as a building subject to the rules for inclusion of homesteads. Operational homesteads that fail the rules for inclusion as a Homestead feature type may still be shown as unnamed buildings.

Abandoned homesteads will named in a similar manner to the method of capture of the Homestead feature type in the Habitation feature class in reference to Appendix C. (i.e In densely settled areas homesteads are not captured unless considered significant (e.g. historical) therefore abandoned homesteads should not be named in densely settled regions unless they are also considered significant).

Outstations will be considered as Homesteads.

Outcamps will be considered as Place Names. If buildings are present they should be shown as building points with no text_note. The Place Name should be coincident with a designated building.

Substations will only be included as buildings when there is clear evidence of it meeting the definition of a building. Substations shall not be named unless instructions are provided to do so by GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA.

Buildings other than homesteads may be textnoted where the description expands on the distinctive function category eg. Building Function is 'Fire Station' and Textnote is 'rural' or Building Function is 'Other or Function Unknown' and Textnote is 'museum' or Building Function is 'School' and Textnote is 'Technical College'.

Buildings other than homesteads will be named where named in the base material/digital data or where they are of historical, cultural or national significance. E.g. Australian War Memorial, National Art Gallery, Sydney Opera House.

Only permanent structures will be captured as buildings within Caravan Parks.

Buildings will not be shown within Built-up areas. Building Points will be shown in 'defined holes' in Built Up Area.

Each Building Area polygon will contain a single building point feature centred within its extents.

Building Points will be shown in Recreation Area and Cemetery Area.

The building symbol will be aligned parallel to the map grid.

If black type falls unavoidably over the building symbol, the feature’s symbol attribute will be ‘0’ (non-printing).

Buildings other than homesteads will be named or labelled where they have a distinctive function, eg. ‘factory’, ‘sawmill’, ‘Wikipin Agricultural College’, or where they were labelled on the latest previous edition map.

Abandoned homesteads will be labelled ‘abandoned’.  

Building Area, Vertical Obstruction, Homestead, Place Name, Landmark Area

Section 2 chapter 2.2.3
Section 3 chapters 5.11.1
Appendix U chapter 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.4, 2.1.10, 2.3.3, 2.4.4

FEATURE TYPE (FEATURETYPE) [String; No; 32; Pop_Req] The code which identifies the type of topographic feature represented

Built Up Area

NAME (NAME) [String; No; 60; Pop_Dep] The name of the Built-Up Area. This item must be populated.

FEATURE RELIABILITY DATE (FEATURERELIABILITY) [Date; Yes; 0; 0; 36; Pop_Req]
The reliability date of the spatial object; Date to be adjusted only during spatial change or verification of an existing feature location or the capture of a new feature (see Section 1 Chapter 3.6);

Most Recent Reliability Date of Revision Source Material (or Base Material/digitial data for inital capture) used for Spatial Verification

FEATURE SOURCE (FEATURESOURCE) [String; Yes; 50; Pop_Req]
This primary source used to determine the spatial location of a feature (For use in TOPO100K only;).

ATTRIBUTE RELIABILITY (ATTRIBUTERELIABILITY) [Date; Yes; 0; 0; 36; Pop_Req]
The reliability date of the attribute object; Date to be adjusted only during attribute change or verification of an existing feature's item values or the capture of a new feature (see Section 1 Chapter 3.6);

Most Recent Reliability Date of Revision Source Material (or Base Material/digitial data for inital capture) used for Attribute Verification.

ATTRIBUTE SOURCE (ATTRIBUTESOURCE) [String; Yes; 50; Pop_Req]
The primary source used to populate the attribute fields of a feature (For use in TOPO100K only;).

PLANIMETRIC ACCURACY (PLANIMETRICACCURACY) [Short Integer; No; 4; Pop_Req] The standard deviation of the horizontal positional accuracy.The default value, when not specified in project instructions, will be as follows;
10 / 40 / 100

DATA SOURCE (SOURCE) [String; No; 50; Pop_Req] This is the official name of the agency that originally captured the spatial object for the TOPO250K NTDB (For use in TOPO250K only) ; The default value when unknown or not specified in project instructions will be GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA.

UNIQUE FEATURE IDENTIFIER (UFI) [String; Yes; 10; Pop_Aut] Alphanumeric feature identifier defined for GEODATA SERIES 2 (For use in TOPO250K only;) (see Section 3 chapter 5.14)

FEATURE CREATION DATE (CREATIONDATE) [Date; Yes; 0; 0; 36; Pop_Aut] Date of creation of feature in the database. This field will be entered/edited automatically by GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA.

FEATURE RETIREMENT DATE (RETIREMENTDATE) [Date;Yes; 0; 0; 36; Pop_Aut] Date of retirement of feature in the database.This field will be entered/edited automatically by GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA.

PERSISTENT IDENTIFIER (PID) [Long Integer; Yes; 8; Pop_Aut] This field will be entered/edited automatically by GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA.

SYMBOL (SYMBOL) [Short Integer; No; 4; Pop_Req] (Link to Symbol Dictionary)Symbol number/s applicable;

420

A Built Up Area will be representative of all buildings which are set out on street patterns and which are too close to be shown using individual symbols at map scale.

Areas of open space which are not Recreation Areas and have an area greater than 390625 square metres at 1:250 000 and 62500 square metres at 1:100 000 or at 1:25 000 will be excluded from the built-up area.

In some instances, parts or suburbs of a town or city may be split from the main body of the built-up-area by open land or a double sided stream, in which case the separate Built Up Area polygons will carry the same name, eg ‘Melbourne’ which may be attached to a number of Built Up Area polygon features.

Built Up Area names will be as listed for the census. Where names have been combined for the census (eg hyphenated) they will be combined unless separate populations are given for the components in which case the components will be named seperately.

Unless they are disconnected sections of a larger area, Built Up Areas less than 390625 sq m. at 1:250 000 or 62500 sq m. at 1:100 000 and 1:25 000 will be represented by a featuretype Place Name or Populated Place. Where Built Up Areas are broken into disconnected sections each with indentical attributes they will be merged to form a multi-part polygon.

Names of suburbs of a city or town will be included as features with the code Place Name.  

The boundaries of a Built Up Area should be defined with consideration to the surrounding landscape and location in Australia (e.g. middle of the Northern Territory versus older suburbs in a capital city versus newer suburbs in a fast growing satellite town)
 
The following sentence is a guideline and should be used with consideration to the rules noted above, the definition of Built Up Area and examples shown in Appendix U Imagery Interpretation Guide (Built Up Area Delineation) :

In General, Built Up Area should consist of the majority of land parcels being less than 3600 sq m and man-made structures (e.g pools, homes, garages, etc) should occupy greater than approximately 15 percent of the land parcel.

Built-up area features cannot overlap each other.

Where a Built Up Area edge (feature type polygon) is within 50 metres at 1:250 000 and 20 metres at 1:100 000 of and runs alongside the following features it will be coincident with the other feature:
Another Built Up Area edge (feature type polygon)
Building Area edge (feature type polygon)

Built-up area features cannot overlap;
Recreation Area (feature Class), Cemetery Area, Rubbish Tip, Lake, Watercourse Area, Canal Area, Mangrove, Reservoir, Land Subject to Inundation and Sea features.

Dual carriageways, highways/principal roads and secondary roads will be shown through Built-up areas. The selection of minor roads within Built-up Area varies according to scale. (See Road)

Where a Built Up Area edge (feature type polygon) is within 50 metres at 1:250 000 and 20 metres at 1:100 000 of and runs alongside the following features it will be coincident with the other feature:
Road
Railway
Sea wall
Shoreline
WaterbodyBoundaries (except junction and Limit Of Data)
Cemetery Area edge (feature type polygon)
Foreshore Flat edge (feature type polygon)
Landmark Area edge (feature type polygon)
Prohibited Area edge (feature type polygon)
Rubbish Tip edge (feature type polygon)
MarineHazardAreas edge (feature class polygon)
RecreationAreas edge (feature class polygon)
Reserves edge (feature class polygon)
Vegetation edge (feature dataset polygon)

Built-up areas will be named.

Built-up areas will mask contours, powerlines and pipelines.  

Distance Indicator, Populated Place, Place Name

Section 2 chapter 5.3
Section 3 chapter 6.5.1, 6.7.3, 5.11.2, 5.16, 5.19 and 5.18
Appendix U chapter 2.1.11, 2.4.4

FEATURE TYPE (FEATURETYPE) [String; No; 32; Pop_Req] The code which identifies the type of topographic feature represented

Homestead

NAME (NAME) [String; No; 60; Pop_Dep] The name of the homestead. This item must be populated.

FEATURE RELIABILITY DATE (FEATURERELIABILITY) [Date; Yes; 0; 0; 36; Pop_Req]
The reliability date of the spatial object; Date to be adjusted only during spatial change or verification of an existing feature location or the capture of a new feature (see Section 1 Chapter 3.6);

Most Recent Reliability Date of Revision Source Material (or Base Material/digitial data for inital capture) used for Spatial Verification

FEATURE SOURCE (FEATURESOURCE) [String; Yes; 50; Pop_Req]
This primary source used to determine the spatial location of a feature (For use in TOPO100K only;).

ATTRIBUTE RELIABILITY (ATTRIBUTERELIABILITY) [Date; Yes; 0; 0; 36; Pop_Req]
The reliability date of the attribute object; Date to be adjusted only during attribute change or verification of an existing feature's item values or the capture of a new feature (see Section 1 Chapter 3.6);

Most Recent Reliability Date of Revision Source Material (or Base Material/digitial data for inital capture) used for Attribute Verification.

ATTRIBUTE SOURCE (ATTRIBUTESOURCE) [String; Yes; 50; Pop_Req]
The primary source used to populate the attribute fields of a feature (For use in TOPO100K only;).

PLANIMETRIC ACCURACY (PLANIMETRICACCURACY) [Short Integer; No; 4; Pop_Req] The standard deviation of the horizontal positional accuracy.The default value, when not specified in project instructions, will be as follows;
10 / 40 / 100

DATA SOURCE (SOURCE) [String; No; 50; Pop_Req] This is the official name of the agency that originally captured the spatial object for the TOPO250K NTDB (For use in TOPO250K only) ; The default value when unknown or not specified in project instructions will be GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA.

UNIQUE FEATURE IDENTIFIER (UFI) [String; Yes; 10; Pop_Aut] Alphanumeric feature identifier defined for GEODATA SERIES 2 (For use in TOPO250K only;) (see Section 3 chapter 5.14)

FEATURE CREATION DATE (CREATIONDATE) [Date; Yes; 0; 0; 36; Pop_Aut] Date of creation of feature in the database. This field will be entered/edited automatically by GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA.

FEATURE RETIREMENT DATE (RETIREMENTDATE) [Date;Yes; 0; 0; 36; Pop_Aut] Date of retirement of feature in the database.This field will be entered/edited automatically by GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA.

PERSISTENT IDENTIFIER (PID) [Long Integer; Yes; 8; Pop_Aut] This field will be entered/edited automatically by GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA.

SYMBOL (SYMBOL) [Short Integer; No; 4; Pop_Req] (Link to Symbol Dictionary)Symbol number/s applicable;

40

FEATURE WIDTH (FEATUREWIDTH) [Double; Yes; 8; 4; Pop_Dep]

Currently not used by symbology; 0

ORIENTATION (ORIENTATION) [Short Integer; Yes; 3; Pop_Dep] Orientation in whole degrees from East going anti-clockwise;
Currently not used by symbology; 0

TEXT NOTE (TEXTNOTE) [String; Yes; 50; Pop_Dep] Descriptive note to appear on map. Text Note field should be added when directed in the Geodatabase Rules or if descriptive information is known about a feature that is not covered by any other item in the feature class and expands on the definition of the feature.

The homestead feature will only be shown in densely settled regions as defined by Appendix C ‘Fence and Water Facilities Guide’ when considered significant. This will be regardless of whether it was shown on the base material/digital data (at 1:100 000) or TOPO250K NTDB (at 1:250 000). For information on capture and display of the homesteads feature (Code 4) in moderately and sparsely settled areas refer to Appendix C.

Only operational homesteads will have this classification. Outstations are to be considered as homesteads. Outcamps will be shown as a Place Name not as a Homestead.

Homesteads will be cloned as Building Points.  

Homestead names will be captured as shown on the reference material supplied.

The homestead feature should be located, using imagery, so as to identify the main residence.

Homesteads of historical significance will be shown as homesteads (regardless of Appendix C) if operational otherwise if it is abandoned but the building still exists, they will be represented as a building with the classification of an 'Abandoned Homestead'. In both cases a text_note ,'historic', should be included with the feature.

1:100 000
Individual buildings around the main homestead will be shown, if scale permits, by Building features.

Where a number of buildings in a homestead complex are grouped together and cannot be shown individually, they will be shown using one Homestead.

1:250 000
A homestead may be shown by a single feature representing a group of buildings.

Abandoned homesteads will not be shown as a Homestead feature but rather as a building point.

Homestead names will be named where named in the NTDB.

Building Area, Building Point, Built Up Area, Kilometric distance marker, Railway Station, Road, Place Name.

Section 3 chapters 5.11.1, 5.11.2
Appendix U chapter 2.1.1

FEATURE TYPE (FEATURETYPE) [String; No; 32; Pop_Req] The code which identifies the type of topographic feature represented

Populated Place

NAME (NAME) [String; No; 60; Pop_Dep] The name of the populated place. This item must be populated.

FEATURE RELIABILITY DATE (FEATURERELIABILITY) [Date; Yes; 0; 0; 36; Pop_Req]
The reliability date of the spatial object; Date to be adjusted only during spatial change or verification of an existing feature location or the capture of a new feature (see Section 1 Chapter 3.6);

Most Recent Reliability Date of Revision Source Material (or Base Material/digitial data for inital capture) used for Spatial Verification

FEATURE SOURCE (FEATURESOURCE) [String; Yes; 50; Pop_Req]
This primary source used to determine the spatial location of a feature (For use in TOPO100K only;).

ATTRIBUTE RELIABILITY (ATTRIBUTERELIABILITY) [Date; Yes; 0; 0; 36; Pop_Req]
The reliability date of the attribute object; Date to be adjusted only during attribute change or verification of an existing feature's item values or the capture of a new feature (see Section 1 Chapter 3.6);

Most Recent Reliability Date of Revision Source Material (or Base Material/digitial data for inital capture) used for Attribute Verification.

ATTRIBUTE SOURCE (ATTRIBUTESOURCE) [String; Yes; 50; Pop_Req]
The primary source used to populate the attribute fields of a feature (For use in TOPO100K only;).

PLANIMETRIC ACCURACY (PLANIMETRICACCURACY) [Short Integer; No; 4; Pop_Req] The standard deviation of the horizontal positional accuracy.The default value, when not specified in project instructions, will be as follows;
9999 / 9999 / 9999

DATA SOURCE (SOURCE) [String; No; 50; Pop_Req] This is the official name of the agency that originally captured the spatial object for the TOPO250K NTDB (For use in TOPO250K only) ; The default value when unknown or not specified in project instructions will be GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA.

UNIQUE FEATURE IDENTIFIER (UFI) [String; Yes; 10; Pop_Aut] Alphanumeric feature identifier defined for GEODATA SERIES 2 (For use in TOPO250K only;) (see Section 3 chapter 5.14)

FEATURE CREATION DATE (CREATIONDATE) [Date; Yes; 0; 0; 36; Pop_Aut] Date of creation of feature in the database. This field will be entered/edited automatically by GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA.

FEATURE RETIREMENT DATE (RETIREMENTDATE) [Date;Yes; 0; 0; 36; Pop_Aut] Date of retirement of feature in the database.This field will be entered/edited automatically by GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA.

PERSISTENT IDENTIFIER (PID) [Long Integer; Yes; 8; Pop_Aut] This field will be entered/edited automatically by GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA.

SYMBOL (SYMBOL) [Short Integer; No; 4; Pop_Req] (Link to Symbol Dictionary)Symbol number/s applicable;

0 (non-printing - see data rules for exceptions where symbol to be 420)

FEATURE WIDTH (FEATUREWIDTH) [Double; Yes; 8; 4; Pop_Dep]

Currently not used by symbology; 0

ORIENTATION (ORIENTATION) [Short Integer; Yes; 3; Pop_Dep] Orientation in whole degrees from East going anti-clockwise;
Currently not used by symbology; 0

TEXT NOTE (TEXTNOTE) [String; Yes; 50; Pop_Dep] Descriptive note to appear on map. Text Note field should be added when directed in the Geodatabase Rules or if descriptive information is known about a feature that is not covered by any other item in the feature class and expands on the definition of the feature.

Populated places have a population of 200 or more. All populated places in the supplied Census database clip will be included as populated place localities. The names of populated places will be as named for the census. Where names have been combined for the census (eg hyphenated) they will be combined unless separate populations are given for the components in which case the components will be named separately.

The feature point for a populated place will be positioned coincident with a node or vertice on the road network unless there is no road within 1 mm at map scale of the built-up area associated with the populated place. If necessary, a vertice will be created on the road coincident with the locality populated place feature. For populated places with a population over 20 000 the point should be placed as near as possible on the road network to the location of the central post office.

Populated places will be named.

The name of some populated places may appear two or three times in the NTDB eg. if there is also a Railway Station or a Built-up area polygon of the same name.
 

Where a locality name refers to a wide area the name may appear on a number of adjacent tiles eg ‘North Melbourne’. A locality of the same code and name should not be repeated on the same tile unless it relates to a number of entities sharing the same name.

Populated places will not be symbolised on the map if they fall within a Built Up Area but will have symbol 420 when no Built Up Area polygon exists.

Populated places will be named.

Where symbol 420 is used, the symbol will mask all other detail.

Building Area, Building Point, Built Up Area, Kilometric distance marker, Place Name, Railway Station, Road.

Section 1 chapters 3.8.1
Section 3 chapters 5.11.1, 5.11.2 and 6.5