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Major Roads

Geoscience Australia
Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
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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.

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.

The area covers the land mass of Australia, including offshore islands. Norfolk Island is currently not included.

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Maintenance and Update Frequency: monthly
Statement:
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.

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.

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.

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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.

Created: 29 12 2022

Modified: 30 06 2023

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Cartography and digital mapping | Digital Atlas of Australia | Foundation | Infrastructure | Published_External | Roads | Transport | Transport Networks | geoscientificInformation |

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National Roads

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Identifiers
  • DOI : 10.26186/147907
  • Local : pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/147907
  • global : 26fa66dd-c6f4-431d-86ca-0f1e0e5876bf