Title

Hydrographic Labels - Vicmap Features of Interest 

Alternate title

GEO_AREA_HYDRO_LABEL 

Purpose

Geographic Areas, which depict such features as seas, bays, ranges, plains and islands, are sourced from annotation layers and hence have limitations in the way they can be used. The purpose of this project was to capture polygons representing these areas for the purposes of map labelling. These polygons would contain intelligent information including name, feature type and level, enabling flexible, intelligent and cartographic labelling which is both multi scale and non scale dependent. The Geographic Areas data set can be used for all Vicmap Topographic outputs, at any scale and using index or non-index generation processes and hence meets the "one source many outputs" philosophy of Vicmap Topographic mapping. Current products utilizing geographic areas are: " Vicmap Topographic Hardcopy Mapping Program Vicmap Topographic 1:25 000 Vicmap Topographic 1:25 000 GeoReferenced " Vicmap Topographic 1:30 000 online " Vicmap Topographic 1:50 000 Vicmap Topographic 1:50 000 GeoReferenced " Vicmap Topographic mapping by centroid Vicmap Topographic 1:100 000 Vicmap Topographic 1:100 000 GeoRef Geographic areas can also be used for other mapping products outside of Vicmap Topographic. The scale range of use from 1: 5 000 to 1: 10 000 000, statewide and seamless coverage and dynamic labelling capabilities make it ideal for web mapping systems such as Information Services Branch's land Channel and DSE's Mapshare. Any customized mapping project within Information Services Branch, DSE and whole of Victorian Government should gain benefits from using this dataset. Potential duplication of effort will be removed and it will ensure a consistency of information across all map output products. 

Status

Obsolete  

Topic category

• Elevation
• Environment
• Geoscientific information

Classification

Restricted  

RFQ Number