Vicmap Lite: Airport Point Locations for Victoria, Australia

Victoria, Australia's airport point features, simplified for mapping at scales between 1:250,000 and 1:5,000,000. The dataset includes the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) 3-tier classification and was last updated in September 2021. It is provided by the Department of Transport and Planning under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Creating regional transportation maps based on simplified airport point features.
• Analyzing airport distribution and classification based on the included CASA 3-tier system.
• Controlling map detail for different zoom levels based on the described Scale Use Code concept.

Strengths

• Designed for a specific, stated scale range of 1:250,000 to 1:5,000,000.
• Includes a standardized classification system (CASA 3-tier).
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats, including SHP, GDB, and DWG.

Limitations

• Data content was last updated in September 2021; freshness should be verified.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Row count and column-level documentation are absent.

Provenance

Source

Department of Transport and Planning, Victoria, Australia.

Collection Method

Simplified from Vicmap Transport source data.

Time Range

Snapshot as of September 2021.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-08 22:43:52.756458; data content from September 2021.

Geography

Victoria, Australia.