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Vicmap Digital Data

Vicmap Digital data is the State of Victoria's digital map base that models the primary physical and administrative infrastructure. The Vicmap products includes: Address, Administrative boundaries, Elevation, Hydrography, Imagery, Property and Transport. The Vicmap data underpins key spatial services including Melways and VicRoads directories, emergency services and government. The digital products are suitable as a base for maps, systems and the web for recording and managing assets, customers, land, hazards and any geographic based service. Further details of are provided here:

Vicmap Address

Vicmap Admin

Vicmap Crown Land Tenure

Vicmap Elevation

Vicmap Features

Vicmap Hydro

Vicmap Imagery-Satellite

Vicmap Planning

Vicmap Property

Vicmap Reference

Vicmap Transport

Vicmap Vegetation

Land Victoria recently announced that the original broad Vicmap data series of Property, Roads and Topography has been enhanced and reorganised into the new series of seamless, focussed data products, as described earlier.

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Vicmap Address

Victoria's Authoritative, Accurate and Current Address data base.

Vicmap Address provides a current database of locations and details for addresses for the entire state. It is a point dataset captured at scales up to 1:25,000. Vicmap Address was derived from the former Vicmap Property and Road data sets.

Fields within Vicmap Address include: unit and floor type identifiers, street number, locality, postcode details. Also included are property, building complex and internal (private) street detail, geocode (latitude and longitude), delivery point identifier (DPID) and rural address numbers. In addition, Vicmap Digital Address includes additional useful tools such as council property number (CPN) and census district (CD) identifier. Address points can be directly linked to corresponding locations in the new Vicmap Property.

     ■ Street number, street name
     ■ Locality
     ■ Local Government
     ■ Post code and State
     ■ Cross reference to Vicmap Property

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Vicmap Admin

Victoria's administrative boundary dataset

Vicmap Admin provides boundaries necessary for defining administrative responsibility or for defining location of state, local government area (LGA) and electoral boundaries, localities and place names, townships, postcodes, and parish/county boundaries in Victoria. It includes:

     ■ Local Government Boundaries & Names
     ■ Locality Boundaries & Names
     ■ Regional Melbourne Postcode Boundaries
     ■ State Electoral Boundaries & Names
     ■ State boundary- Proposed.
     ■ Parish and township boundaries

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Vicmap Crown Land Tenure

Victoria's Crown Land database

Vicmap Crown Tenure comprises layers showing the public and private use of Crown Land in Victoria. The layer includes polygons describing the boundaries of private leases and licences (for example grazing licences) on Crown Land. The layer also includes the boundaries of reserves over Crown Land. It includes:

     ■ Private and Public uses of Crown Land
     ■ Grazing licences
     ■ Unused Road Licences
     ■ Leases
     ■ Reserves
     ■ Areas Managed by Committees of Management

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Vicmap Elevation

Victoria's ground surface database

Vicmap Elevation provides a representation of natural relief features across Victoria. Vicmap Elevation contains topographical relief features represented by lines and has been captured at 1:25,000. It is used in a variety of applications, particularly in emergency services, natural resource management, planning and development, and digital map publication. Elevation data was previously part of the former Vicmap Topographic dataset. It includes:

     ■ Contours & spot heights
     ■ Digital Elevation Model (DEM)- 20m grid (ESRI ArcGrid format only)
     ■ Slope, Aspect & Hill-shade (standard)- Proposed.
     ■ Surface features eg. cliffs, cuttings, levee banks, rocky outcrops

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Vicmap Features

Victoria's features of interest datasets

Vicmap Features provides the geographic locations of a range of points of interest and location descriptions that are often used to provide context on hardcopy and web-based maps. It includes:

     ■ Geographic names
     ■ Building Points and Areas
     ■ Built Up Areas
     ■ Common place points (Regional Melbourne)
     ■ Landmarks
     ■ Utility Lines and Areas
     ■ Fence patterns

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Vicmap Hydro

Victoria's water features

Vicmap Hydro Victoria's water related features Vicmap Hydro provides an accurate representation of natural and man made hydrographic features across Victoria at a capture scale of 1:25,000. It is used in a variety of applications, particularly in emergency services, natural resource management, planning and development and digital map publication. Hydro was previously part of the former Vicmap Topographic dataset. It includes:

     ■ Watercourses, water areas and points
     ■ Shorelines
     ■ Navigation points
     ■ Water structures

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Vicmap Imagery - Satellite

Victoria's satellite imagery repository

Vicmap Imagery provides a set of statewide images that can be used for assessment and planning of natural resources and major infrastructure by organisations involved in forestry, agriculture, government administration and water management. It includes:

     ■ Landsat ETM+ 99/00 Colour
         ■ 30 metre pixels
     ■ TM Mosaic 2000 Colour
         ■ 30 metre pixels
     ■ SPOT Mosaic 2001 B & W
         ■ 10 metre pixels

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Vicmap Planning

Victoria's planning

Vicmap Planning shows planning schemes across Victoria as well as Planning overlays associated with the Planning schemes. Planning comprises the following datasets:

Parcel View - polygons & attributes

     ■ Planning Zones
     ■ Planning Overlays
     ■ Urban Growth Boundary (UGB)

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Vicmap Property

Victoria's most complete, authoritative, accurate & current property index

Vicmap Property is key framework datasets of Victoria. It provides the current land parcel and property framework for the State of Victoria. Vicmap Property was captured at scales up to 1:25,000 and is regularly updated. Properties within Vicmap Property can be linked to details within Vicmap Address. It is a fundamental land and asset management tool to organisations, which include State Government Departments, Local Government Authorities, Electricity Distribution Companies, Telecommunication Companies, Water Authorities and Private Industry. It comprises two views:

Parcel View - polygons & attributes

     ■ Crown description, Standard Parcel Identifier (SPI), Lot & Plan number, easements, annotation

Property View- polygons & attributes

     ■ Council Property Number (CPN), easements, annotation, cross reference to Vicmap Address

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Vicmap Reference

Victoria's small scale index map

Vicmap Reference is a statewide data set depicting major cultural, hydrology and administrative data such as roads, township locations and names; railways, rivers; mapsheet grids; Local Government area boundaries and names; at various capture scales. Vicmap Reference is primarily used to provide context to map products at a statewide level. It includes:

     ■ Major road & rail network
     ■ Major cities & towns
     ■ Major rivers & lakes
     ■ State boundary
     ■ Suburb & Rural District boundaries
     ■ Parish boundaries & names
     ■ Mapsheet Indexes
     ■ Water management & distribution authority boundaries & names - historical
     ■ Electricity company boundaries and names - historical

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Vicmap Transport

Victoria's transport network

Vicmap Transport covers the transport network across Victoria. Vicmap Transport contains road, rail, and airport features captured at various scales up to 1:25,000. Vicmap Transport was derived from the former Vicmap Roads and Topographic datasets. It includes a detailed data model of Victoria's entire road network including features such as traffic lights, railway crossings, roundabouts, bridges and tunnels. All features are attributed, including information such as road name, route number, surface/use classification, traffic direction, suburb/locality, height limit, etc. Vicmap Transport is used in a variety of applications such as emergency services, natural resource management, planning and development, and digital map publications. It includes:

     ■ Road centrelines
     ■ Road structures
     ■ Melbourne Regional road text
     ■ Railways, tramways & structures
     ■ Railway stations
     ■ Airports

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Vicmap Vegetation

Victoria's tree cover database

Vicmap Vegetation provides a statewide view of vegetation cover. The data was derived from the Vicmap Topographic map series. It includes

     ■ Vegetation areas
     ■ Windbreaks

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