May 2023

• The Queensland Globe has been live for a decade now and is being evaluated for future improvements.

• The new 3D Products layer category includes Reality Meshes, which can be useful for urban planning and environmental monitoring.

• The addition of Stock Routes layers can help cattle owners identify safe and efficient routes for transporting their livestock.

February 2023

• The survey control layers have been simplified to reflect the accuracy of available survey control and the move to the GDA2020 datum.

• The Australian census data layers have been updated based on the 2021 census.

• The Queensland Globe now has layers for school locations and catchment boundaries, which can aid in the school selection process for parents and guardians.

November 2022

• The Queensland Globe now has the option to show legends in extent only, reducing the size of the legend when many layers are being displayed.

• There are multiple enhancements to 3D places, including the ability to rotate 3D polygons and adjust the height of vertices.

• The positional accuracy of land parcels in the Queensland Globe has been improved, with each parcel containing an accuracy statement in the land parcel attributes.

September 2022

• Users of the Queensland Globe should re-save their long-term maps to avoid losing connection to layers during the transition to cloud-based spatial web services.

• Shared maps can be saved for long-term use by saving them to the user's account.

• This article also provides information on updated satellite imagery basemaps and how to access them.

June 2022

• The latest release of Qld Globe/GeoResGlobe allows users to draw 3D places and add features at a height above or below the ground or sea level.

• Over 10,000 historical maps from 1841 to 2012 can now be accessed for free.

• Cadastral layer issues have been resolved, and a new online form has been introduced to replace the email address for enquiries.

March 2022

• Address search functionality updated.

• Lot on plan search functionality updated.

• Improvements to user-added imagery. Users can import geolocated images with rotation values from QImagery, including JPG and PNG files with their associated world files.

• KML and JSON files - Multiple geometry types can be exported and imported. Once imported these will display each geometry type as a separate layer.

• ArcGIS Enterprise Portal items in user's saved maps can now be taken offline.

• Elevation profile tool incorporates bathymetry information and allows for the generation of surface terrain profiles greater than 50km.

January 2022

• Added two new layers of current imagery to the Queensland Globe.

• Other layer changes have also been made, including the release of new data for the Surat Cumulative Management Areas and the replacement of “Moreton Bay Artificial Reef Sites” with “Artificial Reef Sites”.

• Access to the new layers is temporary and feedback is being sought to gauge interest in continuing this access.