What’s on the maps?

Among other things:

• Sealed roads, unsealed roads, bush tracks, walking tracks – with names
• Rivers and creeks with names, wetlands, lakes
• Seasonal track closures
• National and State Parks, State Forests, other public land, labelled, forested areas marked, Old Growth areas and Logged areas with year (Vic)
• Hunting information (Vic)
• Railway lines, disused lines, stations
• Towns, localities, buildings
• Huts, helipads, campsites, bridges, gates, fire towers, radio repeaters
• Boat ramps, lighthouses, navigation marks, etc (not sure how complete this data is)
• Mines including historical locations, current mining lease areas with boundaries
• Topography (altitude contours) and relief shading
• Bathymetry (depth contours) in some places
• Some steep bits on 4WD tracks
• Ruins, eg old huts which have burned down, old mining camps

Data Sources & Licensing

The data used comes from a variety of sources, including;

• Field surveys,
• pers.comm
• OpenStreetMap contributors,
• DELWP (Victoria)
• Land Tasmania
• Source data is modified, obviously.  Maps are made available free, subject to the continuation of the conditions of these licences, including attribution.

Usage Licence:

• Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence
• You are free to:-
• Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
• Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose
• Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

Split, Index, Grid, Datum, Projection

Current maps are in WGS84 / pseudo mercator (EPSG:3857).

They’re split and named based on the Vicmap grid. A UTM grid is overlaid. There are index files in with the downloads.