Vicmap Reference: Railway and Road Relationship Table for Victoria

Part of the VMREFTAB reference tables for the VICMAP product suite, this dataset defines relationships between railway and road features. It is published by the Department of Transport and Planning under a CC-BY-4.0 license and was last updated on 2026-04-09. The dataset is available in multiple geospatial file formats including TAB, SHP, and GDB.

Use Cases

• Integrating road and rail network models based on defined feature relationships.
• Validating topological consistency between transportation layers in a GIS.
• Supporting asset management systems that require linked road and railway data.
• Creating reference datasets for cartographic production or spatial analysis.

Strengths

• Available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.
• Offered in multiple standard geospatial formats (TAB, SHP, GDB, MIF).
• Part of an established reference table suite (VMREFTAB) for a major mapping product.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale processing.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Department of Transport and Planning (Victoria, Australia).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 02:21:16.437105; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Victoria, Australia.