Vicmap Lite: Railway Station Points for Victoria, Australia

Vicmap Lite contains point features for open or functioning railway stations in Victoria, Australia. The dataset is simplified for use at scales between 1:250,000 and 1:5,000,000 and was last updated in October 2021. It is published by the Department of Transport and Planning under a Creative Commons license.

Use Cases

• Create regional-scale transportation maps based on the simplified point features.
• Analyze the distribution of railway infrastructure across Victoria based on the point locations.
• Control the level of detail displayed on a map using the Scale Use Code attribute.

Strengths

• Designed for a specific scale range of 1:250,000 to 1:5,000,000.
• Sourced from the authoritative Vicmap Transport dataset.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including SHP, GDB, and WFS.

Limitations

• Last updated in October 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 and derived from the Vicmap Transport dataset.

Freshness

Last updated October 2021.

Geography

Victoria, Australia.