Major Roads  


Authors / CoAuthors

Abstract

<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>

Product Type

dataset

eCat Id

147907

Contact for the resource

  Resource provider

 

  Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)  
Cnr Jerrabomberra Ave and Hindmarsh Dr GPO Box 378
Canberra
ACT
2601
Australia

  Point of contact

 

Digital Object Identifier

https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/147907

Keywords

( Project )
  • Digital Atlas of Australia
( Project )
  • Roads
( Project )
  • Transport Networks
  • Digital Atlas of Australia
  • Roads
  • Foundation
  • Transport Networks
  • Infrastructure
  • Transport
theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
  • Cartography and digital mapping
  • Published_External

Publication Date

Creation Date

2022-12-29T16:00:00

Security Constraints

Australian Government Security Classification System    

Classification - unclassified

Legal Constraints

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence    

Use - license otherRestrictions

Status

completed

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.

Maintenance Information

monthly

Topic Category

geoscientificInformation

Series Information

Lineage

<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>

Parent Information

Extents

[-44.00, -9.00, 96.00, 160.00]

Reference System

GDA2020 / geographic 2D (EPSG: 7844)

Spatial Resolution

Service Information

Associations

Association Type - wasDerivedFrom

National Roads    

eCat Identifier - 147684,

UUID - 36f8e03f-d982-42c1-ad52-a3f2452faffc

Downloads and Links

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