From road and rail networks to national parks, lakes and rivers – Transport & Topography provides a comprehensive picture of Australia’s transport infrastructure and unique topography. The dataset presents location based information relating to people, activities and resources.
Transport & Topography
PSMA’s Transport & Topography dataset provides a comprehensive picture of Australia’s transport infrastructure and unique topography. It includes roads, rail networks, national parks, lakes and rivers.
The dataset is underpinned by a road centreline layer of over 2.7 million kilometres of roads, together with more than 30 feature types within transport, hydrology and green space themes. It covers:
- roads – a national coverage of network roads at all levels within Australia from major highways to outback tracks, new roads and changes to current roads
- airports – all aspects of airport infrastructure within Australia, including all airports from international to local landing strips
- rail – the national rail network as well as tram lines are provided in one layer with a separate layer showing railway stations
- hydrology – major and minor water bodies such as oceans, lakes, dams, rivers and major water supply infrastructure such as pipes
- green space – recreational parks as well as national parks, golf courses, botanical gardens and other reserves.
What is this dataset used for?
Transport & Topography is used for:
- Better service delivery – to undertake service delivery analysis including remoteness indexing and service centre location placement.
- Emergency management – authoritative national information about highways, main roads, coastlines, major drainage, railway line and key locality points is critical to emergency response planning, management and delivery.
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