Cadastre and Address Modernisation (CAM) Project

CAM is transforming the systems and processes used to manage and maintain spatial cadastre (land boundary) and location addressing information in Queensland.

Foundational spatial data

Foundational spatial data—digital maps and other geographic information—helps us understand and manage our land, ensuring shared knowledge of Queensland's geography and its built and natural environments. It creates the common knowledge of place that helps us connect and stay connected.

Queensland's historical spatial information was stored on paper records, maps, charts, photographs, and other physical media. In the 1960s and 70s, we began the transition away from paper and towards digital records, making data easier to manage, maintain, improve, view, share, and connect.

Queensland's spatial cadastre and location addressing information was digitised in the 1980s and 90s. The technology and processes were cutting-edge, but only capable of replicating the 2D nature of paper maps, and reflected the relative low complexity of our built environments of the time.

Unlocking the power of foundational spatial data

Our diverse and complex built and natural environments require data to match, so we can maintain the shared foundational understanding necessary for modern life.

New tools, technologies and techniques enable us to leverage other value-adding information within data we already hold. For example, distance (length) and bearing (angle) information (known as survey observations) stored on cadastral survey plans.

In the original digitisation of spatial cadastre, only the lines and points forming the plane (2D) boundaries of land parcels were captured. This removed the need to maintain large, complex paper versions. The system was not capable of storing and maintaining survey observation data or other survey-relevant information (such as permanent survey marks or geographical features).

CAM positions us to deliver 3D cadastre in the future. 3D cadastre is valuable for planning and development, as a foundational component of spatial digital twins, and enables us to more effectively assign location addresses to physical reality.

Queensland Spatial Cadastral Fabric

After years of planning, design, development and implementation, the Queensland Spatial Cadastral Fabric (QSCF) has been delivered under the CAM project. This milestone marks a major step forward in modernising one of Queensland's most critical foundational datasets. This initiative aligns with the ICSM Cadastre 2034 strategy.

Built on Esri ArcGIS Parcel Fabric technology, QSCF allows more complex and complete information to be captured and stored. QSCF has the capability to capture all survey information, including distances and bearings, improving spatial accuracy and enabling more reliable, data-driven decision making.

QSCF is the first implementation of its kind in Australia and now represents the largest contiguous parcel fabric in the world, encompassing around 3 million land parcels.

QSCF data is openly available as downloads and web services through the Queensland Globe, the QSpatial Catalogue, and Spatial Portal.

Queensland Address and Location Information

Delivered in June 2026 as part of the same project, the Queensland Address and Location Information (QALI) system replaces legacy addressing systems with a modern, flexible platform designed for the future. Queensland is the first state to implement an addressing model that adopts the ANZLIC National Address Management Framework—a major step towards national standardisation of location address management.

Assignation of location addresses in Queensland is the responsibility of local governments, with the Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development (NRMMRRD) recognised as the authority for the collation and provision of statewide addressing.

This data forms Queensland's contribution to the Australia-wide address information known as the Geocoded National Address File (G-NAF), used by all jurisdictions, industries and services.

Queensland's new addressing system provides quicker updates; flexible data transfers; and the ability to manage complex addresses, such as 3D addresses, gated estates and multiple secondary addresses for a single parcel or property.

For questions about your address, contact your local council. You can check your address online with the Queensland Geocoder.

View images of spatial data technologies over the years, including CAM's potential to move toward 3D cadastre.

Last updated

21 July 2026

Last reviewed

21 July 2026