1:100 000 Scale Data

• GEODATA TOPO 100K ACT Region
• Topographic Base 1:100 000 scale

GEODATA TOPO 100K ACT Region

User Guide [PDF 1,236 kb] Metadata Free Download Product Specifications

GEODATA TOPO 100K ACT Region is a vector representation of the major topographic features appearing on the ACT Region NATMAP 1:100 000 scale topographic map. An ECW of the ACT Region NATMAP is also available as part of this product. It has been specifically designed for use in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and provides high quality data for mapping and GIS professionals.

The data is available in three popular GIS formats (ESRI Personal Geodatabase, ESRI Shapefiles and MapInfo mid/mifs) as well as a raster (ECW). They can either be individually downloaded for free, or all formats can purchased as a single packaged CD-ROM product by contacting the Geoscience Australia Sales Centre.

Product Specifications

Themes:

• Administration: Administrative boundaries, prohibited areas and reserves.
• Aviation: Aircraft facilities, aircraft infrastructure and airports.
• Cartography: Cartographic features, graticules and grids
• Culture: Cemeteries, dam walls, landmarks, recreational areas, rubbish tips, vertical obstructions, water tanks and windpumps.
• Drainage: Rapids, watercourses and waterfalls.
• Framework: Locations and mainland.
• Habitation: Buildings, built-up areas, homesteads and populated places.
• Industry: Mines.
• Physiography: Caves, distorted surfaces, and pinnacles.
• Rail transport: Railways and railway infrastructure.
• Relief: Contours, hypsometric areas and spot elevations.
• Road transport: Roads, road infrastructure, foot tracks and footbridges.
• Series index: Geodata index boundary for the ACT Region data.
• Survey marks: Horizontal control points.
• Utility: Pipelines and powerlines.
• Vegetation: Cultivated areas, native vegetation areas, and windbreaks.
• Waterbodies: Bores, flats, reservoirs, springs, watercourse areas, waterholes and water points.

Currency: 2005.

Coordinates: Geographical.

Datum: Geocentric Datum of Australia (GDA94), Australian Height Datum (AHD).

Format: ESRI Personal Geodatabase Version 8.3, ESRI Shapefile, MapInfo mid/mif and ER Mapper Compressed Wavelet (ECW) Raster.

Medium: Online Download (free) or Packaged CD-ROM ($99).

Topographic Base 1:100 000 Scale

Metadata Licence Fees Product Specifications

Comprises data captured from 1:100 000 scale map production material.

Product Specifications

Themes:

• Cultural: Roads, railways, towns, mines, state borders, buildings, (without names);
• Drainage: Coastline, reefs, streams, lakes, tanks, bores, (without names);
• Relief: Contours, spot heights, (with elevation identified); and
• Vegetation: Scattered, medium and dense.

Coverage: Incomplete. The following availability maps are provided in PDF format and JPEG format. They provide an indication of availability over your area of interest. Please confirm actual data availability with the Geoscience Australia Sales Centre.

• Cultural: [PDF 0.5 Mb] ; [JPEG 0.2 Mb]
• Drainage: [PDF 0.5 Mb] ; [JPEG 0.2 Mb]
• Relief: [PDF 0.5 Mb] ; [JPEG 0.2 Mb]
• Vegetation: [PDF 0.5 Mb] ; [JPEG 0.2 Mb]

Currency: Ranges from 1961 to 1990

Coordinates: AMG

Datum: AGD66 (some contour files are WGS84), AHD

Format: ArcInfo export, MapInfo mid/mif, AS2482-1989

Medium: No free download. Available for purchase on CD-ROM only.