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Open Land Cover Data for Australia

The WRF Preprocessing System (WPS) has open land data and a documentation. You could also try the NCAR data. There is land cover included but the webpage is unclear about the data access. A data ...
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Australian post code/area shapefiles

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, exact geographic boundaries for the post codes are not well defined. Indeed, the data available from the ABS are re-released periodically. However for ...
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Agriculture shapefiles and additional GIS data for Australia

Here are the links that might be what you are looking for but I'd google it if these were not what you are looking for: http://www.diva-gis.org/Data http://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/data
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Can anyone recommend a comprehensive site to find Building Shapefiles for Sydney and its suburbs?

Microsoft recently released building footprints for all of Australia. See their Github page here; https://github.com/microsoft/AustraliaBuildingFootprints The licence is Microsoft's Open Database ...
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Can anyone recommend a comprehensive site to find Building Shapefiles for Sydney and its suburbs?

PSMA's Geoscape service has building footprints covering all of Australia; https://geoscape.com.au/product/ Unfortunately it is not free and charges are usually based on the size of the area you're ...
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Open Land Cover Data for Australia

The official Australian Land Cover can be located here. However, it's a WMS only. You may be able to contact GeoScience Australia for a raster file. The description: The Land Cover map service ...
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Where to find data on Australian business types and locations?

I wasn't able to find any free datasets which answered my question. But the next best thing was a reasonably cheap dataset from http://datajet.com.au which had business name, type and lat/long:
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Open Land Cover Data for Australia

The AusCover data portal is also likely to be of use here. Specifically, Land cover dynamics and phenology
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Seeking Underground Infrastructure Data for Brisbane (Australia)

OpenStreetMap has underground items in its data so you can pull data from there.
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Australia Hotel/Motel Data

DMOZ is a directory and naturally is great for tasks like this. You're going to have to do all of the leg work though: Search DMOZ for Australia + Hotel
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Machine-readable way to determine if plant species is native to Australia

I don't know when this came along, but the Atlas of Living Australia now has an API which can (maybe) answer the question. This query asks for every member of the plant kingdom for which there is a ...
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Are the Local Government Area wards of New South Wales available in a vector format?

Electoral boundaries from 2015 are available on the website of the New South Wales Electoral Commission. GDA94 Geographical MID/MIF Files New South Wales electoral boundaries for the 2015 ...
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Reputable source to get foot traffic in Australia based on different locations

There is no open data source that I am aware of that would be able to provide foot traffic at the hourly level for the method you are looking for. That being said, an option would be to look up recent ...
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Australian Crime Data

For Vic -> https://www.crimestatistics.vic.gov.au/crime-statistics/latest-crime-data/download-data Note that I wouldn't think they would release every incident with a location as some data would ...
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