Australia's River Basins 1997

Note: This metadata describes the dataset in accordance with the ANZLIC (Australia New Zealand Land Information Council) Core Metadata Guidelines Version 2.

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Dataset citation

ANZLIC unique identifier: ANZCW0703005427

Title: Australia's River Basins 1997

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Custodian

Custodian: Geoscience Australia

Jurisdiction: Australia

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Australia's River Basins 1997 is the result of a joint State, Territory and Commonwealth Government project to create a national spatial database of major hydrological basins. It shows the boundaries of Australia's basins as defined by the Australian Water Resources Management Committee (WRMC).

Australia is divided into drainage divisions which are sub-divided into water regions which are in-turn sub-divided into river basins. The data includes the name and number of each of the 245 drainage basins, 77 regions, and 12 divisions.

ANZLIC search words:

BOUNDARIES Mapping
WATER Hydrology Mapping

Spatial domain:

locality map

Geographic extent name: AUSTRALIA EXCLUDING EXTERNAL TERRITORIES - AUS - Australia - Australia

Geographic extent polygon: 112 -9, 154 -9, 154 -44, 112 -44, 112 -9,

Note: The format for each Geographic extent name is: Name - Identifier - Category - Jurisdiction (as appropriate) See GEN Register

Geographic bounding box:: North bounding latitude: -9 °; South bounding latitude: -44 °; East bounding longitude: 154 °; West bounding longitude: 112 °

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Data currency

Beginning date: Not Known

Ending date: 1997-06-30

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Dataset status

Progress: Complete

Maintenance and update frequency: Not Known

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Access

Stored data format:: DIGITAL - mif MapInfo Interchange Format (MIF) MapInfo Geographic AGD66; DIGITAL - shp ArcView shape file ArcView Geographic AGD66

Available format type:: DIGITAL - mif MapInfo Interchange Format (MIF) MapInfo Geographic AGD66; DIGITAL - shp ArcView shape file ArcView Geographic AGD66

Access constraints:

The data are subject to Copyright. Data files may be downloaded from Geoscience Australia's website at www.ga.gov.au/download/. A licence agreement is required.

Free Data Download

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Data quality

Lineage:

Data for basin boundaries have been captured by relevant State and Territory authorities from 1:10 000 and 1:250 000 scale source material. The balance of the data are from Geoscience Australia's GEODATA Coast 100K which includes coastlines and State and Territory borders.

Positional accuracy:

Variable - dependant on scale of source material.

Attribute accuracy:

Not Documented

Logical Consistency:

Australia's River Basin data complies with the following rules for topology:

- The data has a node/chain structure;

- Every line feature has a node at each end;

- Every line feature has a node at intersections;

- Every line feature has a node at the point where an attribute of the feature changes;

- There are no unnecessary pseudo nodes;

- Every polygon is closed;