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Major Roads

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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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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Title Major Roads
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/fb7acef6-d7f5-46c7-ae68-6b248a82ebe3
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
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Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        96.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        160.0,
        -44.0
      ],
      [
        160.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        96.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        96.0,
        -44.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Geoscience Australia

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Major Roads". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/major-roads