National Roads

<div>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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Date (Creation): 2022-12-29T14:00:00

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Date (Publication): 2025-02-28

Citation identifier: Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/147684

Citation identifier: Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/147684

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

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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

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Digital Atlas of Australia

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Roads

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Foundation

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Transport Networks

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Infrastructure

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Transport

theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf

Cartography and digital mapping

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Title: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title: CC-BY

Edition: 4.0

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

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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

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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: Had derivation

Title: Major Roads

Citation identifier: 147907

Citation identifier: 26fa66dd-c6f4-431d-86ca-0f1e0e5876bf

Website

http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/147907

Link to eCat metadata record landing page

Language: English

Character encoding: UTF8

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Distributor contact

Role	Organisation / Individual Name	Details
Distributor	Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)	Voice facsimile

OnLine resource: Download dataset (gdb zip) [1.2 GB]

Download dataset (gdb zip) [1.2 GB]

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OnLine resource: Download metadata statement (pdf) [679 KB]

Download metadata statement (pdf) [679 KB]

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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: geoscape.com.au/legal/data-copyright-and-disclaimer.</div><div><br></div>

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

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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

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urn:uuid/36f8e03f-d982-42c1-ad52-a3f2452faffc

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

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Resource scope: Dataset

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Title: Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid

Citation identifier: eCatId/147684

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https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/36f8e03f-d982-42c1-ad52-a3f2452faffc

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https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/js/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/36f8e03f-d982-42c1-ad52-a3f2452faffc

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https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/ofmj3/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/36f8e03f-d982-42c1-ad52-a3f2452faffc

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https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/home/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/36f8e03f-d982-42c1-ad52-a3f2452faffc

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https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/ofmJ3/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/36f8e03f-d982-42c1-ad52-a3f2452faffc

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https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/dashboard/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/36f8e03f-d982-42c1-ad52-a3f2452faffc

Date info (Creation): 2025-03-13T03:30:02.612Z

Date info (Creation): 2023-04-20T05:01:06

Date info (Revision): 2025-03-13T03:32:59.303Z

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: https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

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