Australian Major Roads from OpenStreetMap, December 2011

Major roads for Australia were extracted from the OpenStreetMap project in December 2011. The dataset includes road types such as motorway, trunk, primary, secondary, and tertiary. It was processed by CloudMade and published via the Australian Ocean Data Network.

Use Cases

• Map major Australian road networks based on the extracted OpenStreetMap highway types.
• Analyze the distribution of road classifications like motorway and primary across Australia.
• Create a simplified, high-performance basemap for regional transportation studies.

Strengths

• Dataset is focused on major roads, creating a smaller, high-performance shapefile as noted in the description.
• Specific extraction criteria are documented, listing 14 road type values used for selection.

Limitations

• Data is from a single snapshot in December 2011; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

OpenStreetMap project, processed by CloudMade.

Collection Method

Extracted from the complete OpenStreetMap shapefile using ArcMap Analysis Tools.

Time Range

December 2011

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-10 17:13:36.324664

Geography

Australia