Tourism and Sugar Mills in the Great Barrier Reef Coastal Zone, 2013

Two geospatial datasets digitizing tourism sites and sugar mills in the Great Barrier Reef coastal zone. The tourism layer, manually added to the 2009 QLUMP, includes infrastructure and cleared land areas derived from a commercial operator database and government recreational data. The sugar mill dataset provides point locations for 18 mills operational as of March 2013, used to model distances and expansion restrictions for coastal development scenarios.

Use Cases

• Modeling coastal development scenarios based on tourism infrastructure and sugar mill locations.
• Analyzing land use patterns and potential expansion restrictions for sugar cane farming based on proximity to mills.
• Assessing the spatial footprint of tourism activities in the Great Barrier Reef coastal zone.
• Integrating tourism land use data with broader land use maps like QLUMP for more comprehensive regional planning.

Strengths

• Includes 18 specifically named sugar mills (e.g., Mossman, Pleystowe, Pioneer) operational as of March 2013.
• Tourism data incorporates multiple sources: a commercial tourism operator database and governmental recreational area data from GeoScience Australia.
• Datasets were developed to fill specific gaps for scenario modeling in coastal development studies.

Limitations

• The tourism layer is described as 'still not inclusive of all tourism area in 2013'.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network, via data_gov_au.

Collection Method

Tourism sites digitized from the Australian Tourism Data Warehouse and government data; sugar mill locations gathered from internet sources.

Time Range

Tourism data reflects 2013 status; sugar mills are operational as of March 2013.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-10 22:20:47.817201; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Great Barrier Reef coastal zone and nearby proximity.