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2018 Building Footprints

Created 27/06/2025

Updated 17/11/2025

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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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Title 2018 Building Footprints
Language English
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/f2b85759-81b7-41f4-a167-ccd587f3d35d
Remote Last Updated 03/11/2025
Contact Point
City of Melbourne
contact@dpc.vic.gov.au
Reference Period 03/10/2019
Geospatial Coverage Victoria
Data Portal Victoria Government

Data Source

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