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2018 Building Footprints

Created 10/01/2026

Updated 10/01/2026

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This dataset shows the footprints of all structures within the City of Melbourne. A building footprint is a 2D polygon (or multi-polygon) representation of the base of a building or structure. The footprint is defined as the boundary of the structure where the walls intersect with the ground plane or podium, rather than an outline of the roof area (roofprint).

Where a building has a significant change in built form, multiple footprint polygons are ‘stacked’ vertically to define shape of the built form. This includes, and is not limited to:

  • Tower
  • Podium
  • Setbacks/offsets

To see the footprints in 3D please refer to our Development Activity Model

The Australian Height Datum (AHD) is the national vertical datum for Australia. The National Mapping Council adopted the AHD in May 1971 as the datum to which all vertical control mapping would be referred

The data was captured in May 2018.

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Field Value
Title 2018 Building Footprints
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/eea51986-0205-47d4-90a4-425e384cb6d3
Remote Last Updated 20/02/2023
Contact Point
City of Melbourne Open Data
opendata@melbourne.vic.gov.au
Reference Period 20/02/2023
Geospatial Coverage Melbourne
Data Portal Melbourne Data

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Melbourne Data "2018 Building Footprints". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.melbourne.vic.gov.au/explore/dataset/2018-building-footprints/