Wet Tropics World Heritage Area Road Classifications for Motor Vehicle Access

Wet Tropics Management Authority data from 2013 contains line features depicting road classification within the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area of Queensland. The dataset includes five categories of roads where public motor vehicle use is allowed, with positional and attribute accuracy derived from 1:50,000 topographic maps, local knowledge, aerial photography, and GPS data. It is complete within the World Heritage Area but shows an incomplete set of roads outside its boundaries.

Use Cases

• Mapping permissible motor vehicle routes based on the five defined road categories.
• Analyzing road network structure for community access and presentation purposes within the World Heritage Area.
• Supporting management and research planning by identifying roads designated for those purposes.

Strengths

• Attributes directly relevant to the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, such as PlanClass98, Legend, and InWha, are stated to have 100% accuracy.
• Dataset completeness is confirmed for the World Heritage Area itself.
• Source data includes multiple inputs: 1:50,000 topographic maps, local knowledge, aerial photography, and GPS-fixed centrelines for main roads.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset shows an incomplete set of roads outside the World Heritage Area.
• Some attribute fields are described as indicative only, not authoritative.

Provenance

Source

Wet Tropics Management Authority

Collection Method

Derived from 1:50,000 topographic maps, augmented with local knowledge, aerial photography, and GPS data from the Queensland Government.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-13 12:20:24.476301; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, Queensland, Australia