Major Roads

<div>Major Roads is a subset of the National Roads by Geoscape dataset, filtered for highways, arterial and sub-arterial roads. National Roads by Geoscape is a digital representation of the road network of Australia. National Roads contains linear features to describe surfaces that have been improved to enable vehicular, pedestrian and bicycle transportation on land and ferry routes that enable vehicles to cross water bodies. National Roads does not include railways, tramways, driveways or passenger ferry routes.</div><div><br></div><div>This dataset provides an optimised aggregated national view of road geometry and attribution. The dataset is created from multiple sources including jurisdictional data which is revised regularly and supplied in varying formats and at different levels of quality.</div><div><br></div><div>The area covers the land mass of Australia, including offshore islands. Norfolk Island is currently not included.</div>

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2022-12-29T16:00:00
Date (Revision)
2023-06-30T05:54:31
Date (Revision)
2023-09-14
Date (Revision)
2023-08-31
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2023-09-30
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2023-10-31
Date (Revision)
2023-11-30
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2023-12-31
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2024-01-31
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2024-02-29
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2024-03-31
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2024-04-30
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2024-05-31
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2024-06-30
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2024-07-31
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2024-08-31
Date (Revision)
2024-09-30
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2024-10-31
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2024-11-30
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2024-12-31
Date (Revision)
2025-01-31
Date (Revision)
2025-02-28
Date (Publication)
2025-03-31
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/147907

Citation identifier
Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/147907

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Publisher

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Purpose

The purpose of Roads is to provide a single national digital representation of Australian roads with detailed attribution to enable clients to undertake activities including visualisation, analysis and logistics planning at both a national and local scale.

Status
Completed
Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Resource provider

Place and Communities Division

 External Contact
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Coghlan, R.

 Internal Contact
Spatial representation type
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

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Maintenance and update frequency
Monthly

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Protocol

FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY

Name of the resource

Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Description

Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes

Project

  • Digital Atlas of Australia

  • Roads

  • Transport Networks

Keywords

  • Digital Atlas of Australia

Keywords

  • Roads

Keywords

  • Foundation

Keywords

  • Transport Networks

Keywords

  • Infrastructure

Keywords

  • Transport

theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf

  • Cartography and digital mapping

Keywords

  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Addressee
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
User

Any
Use constraints
License
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

Geoscape Roads © Geoscape Australia 2024, Copyright and Disclaimer Notice: https://geoscape.com.au/legal/data-copyright-and-disclaimer

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified
Classification system

Australian Government Security Classification System

Associated resource

Association Type
Was derived from
Title

National Roads

Citation identifier
147684

Citation identifier
36f8e03f-d982-42c1-ad52-a3f2452faffc

Website

http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/147684

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice facsimile
OnLine resource

Download dataset (gdb zip) [650.7 MB]

Download dataset (gdb zip) [650.7 MB]

Distribution format

  • gdb zip

    File decompression technique

    unzip

OnLine resource

Download metadata statement (pdf) [615 KB]

Download metadata statement (pdf) [615 KB]

Distribution format

  • pdf

Resource lineage

Statement

<div>Roads provides a single national digital view of road centrelines across the entirety of Australia. Roads is continuously built through sourcing a broad range of datasets from many organisations. This data is quality assured, standardised, integrated and topology-corrected before publication.</div><div><br></div><div>Road centrelines are primarily sourced from State and Territory governments and form the basis for the Roads network. Roads additional to the State and Territory provisions are digitised or integrated where reliable sources of road centrelines are identified that improves the quality and/or consistency of Roads nationally. For attribution of Roads data sources refer to this webpage:&nbsp;geoscape.com.au/legal/data-copyright-and-disclaimer.</div><div><br></div><div>The National Roads by Geoscape dataset was further filtered to include only roads that were operational; and only roads that were highways, arterial, or sub-arterial.</div><div><br></div>

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/GDA2020 / geographic 2D (EPSG: 7844)

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/26fa66dd-c6f4-431d-86ca-0f1e0e5876bf

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Coghlan, R.

 Internal Contact

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/147907

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/26fa66dd-c6f4-431d-86ca-0f1e0e5876bf

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/dashboard/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/26fa66dd-c6f4-431d-86ca-0f1e0e5876bf

Date info (Creation)
2025-04-22T06:51:50.795Z
Date info (Creation)
2025-04-22T06:44:21.384Z
Date info (Creation)
2025-03-13T05:01:02.693Z
Date info (Creation)
2023-05-31T05:24:03
Date info (Revision)
2025-04-22T06:53:14.421Z

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier
http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

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Keywords

Digital Atlas of Australia Roads Transport Networks
theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
Cartography and digital mapping

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