Australia's Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action provides this geospatial dataset for drawing map graticules. It contains lines spaced at 1-kilometer intervals, attributed with Easting and Northing, and was last updated on April 8, 2026. The dataset is part of a series of layers for common map projections.
Use Cases
- Overlaying a standardized grid for spatial reference on maps based on the described 1 km line intervals.
- Creating Map Grid of Australia (MGA) graticules for projects requiring this specific coordinate system.
- Projecting the grid to provide Australian Map Grid (AMG) reference lines over non-MGA data, as mentioned in the description.
Strengths
- Lines are spaced at a precise 1-kilometer interval.
- Available in multiple common GIS formats including SHP, DXF, and GDB.
- Released under the permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (data.gov.au)
- Collection Method
- Created as a cartographic reference layer.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-08 23:01:11.164609; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Australia