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The Resources department oversees templates, maps, images, and anything else useful for members of the WikiProject.

Templates

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The following is a list of templates, sorted by type. Details of how to use the templates are available on the templates are specified at each templates documentation page.

Maps and images

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Maps
Photos and diagrams
Requests
  • Requests should be made at the project talk page. Please note, however, that there are a limited number of volunteers with a limited amount of time making maps

External resources

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Roads/Transport Agencies

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Roads/Transport Agencies (External Territories)

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Official maps and lists

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Australian Capital Territory

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New South Wales

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Northern Territory

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  • Department of Transport (April 1998). "Map of all NT Roads" (PDF). Northern Territory Government. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
– Shows national highways, arterial roads, secondary roads, and destinations. More detailed maps for some locations available at Declared Roads

Queensland

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  • The State Road Network of Queensland (PDF) map and enlargements (PDF) – state controlled and state strategic roads shown and listed by classification, and local roads of regional significance. Also shows road regions, LGAs, destinations, and rest areas/scenic stops. Available under CC-BY-3.0-AU licence.

South Australia

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  • State maintained roads - listing and maps of DPTI roads
  • A Functional Hierarchy for South Australia’s Land Transport Network (32 page PDF) – see 'Road Classification' (pages 4-5) for state roads - sealed and unsealed; see 'Functional Hierarchy: Major Traffic routes' (pages 14-17) for major roads; see 'Functional Hierarchy: Key Outback Routes' (pages 26-27) for major outback tracks.
  • Roads dataset from South Australian Government Data Directory. Shapefile (GIS) dataset of every sealed and unsealed road in the state, and has been recently created and updated (2013). Data includes road names, route numbers, and class (Highway, Arterial, etc.). The license is CC-BY-3.0-AU, so it can be used to create maps. Does not include coastline or state borders.

Tasmania

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  • Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources: Tasmanian State Road Hierarchy (PDF) – maps of state roads, showing hierarchy. No road names shown, just major towns/locations
  • LISTmap (beta) from the Land Information System Tasmania – click the layers button at the top right to add layers such as scanned maps from current TASMAP publications (which include road routes), Local Government Areas, land classification, and aerial imagery

Victoria

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Western Australia

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  • MRWA Road Information Mapping System (interactive map - all roads in WA)
    Can show state roads, sections with control of access, road hierarchy, speed limits, locations (towns, suburbs, LGAs, MRWA regions). Use the map identify function (click the (i) button to activate) to identify road length, name, and MRWA road number for state roads (Main roads network layer), and the start/end SLK (straight line kilometre) of road segments (Road Names layer).
  • MRWA Survey Portal (interactive map - all roads in WA) – can also identify segment SLKs and MRWA region.
  • MRWA region maps (PDFs) – includes state roads, major LGA roads, minor LGA roads, destinations, and LGA boundaries. Shows if roads are sealed or unsealed. Does not include metropolitan region (Perth).
Extended content
  • Upper Regions map – Kimberley, Pilbara and Gascoyne (PDF) (PDF). Version 1.0. Cartography by Main Roads Western Australia. Main Roads Western Australia. 13 August 2013. Archived from the original on 29 August 2013.
  • Mid West Region map (PDF) (PDF). Version 1.0. Cartography by Main Roads Western Australia. Main Roads Western Australia. 16 August 2013. Archived from the original on 29 August 2013.
  • Goldfields-Esperance Region map (PDF) (PDF). Version 1.0. Cartography by Main Roads Western Australia. Main Roads Western Australia. 13 August 2013. Archived from the original on 29 August 2013.
  • Wheatbelt North Region map (PDF) (PDF). Version 1.0. Cartography by Main Roads Western Australia. Main Roads Western Australia. 13 August 2013. Archived from the original on 29 August 2013.
  • Wheatbelt South Region map (PDF) (PDF). Version 1.0. Cartography by Main Roads Western Australia. Main Roads Western Australia. 13 August 2013. Archived from the original on 29 August 2013.
  • Great Southern Region map (PDF) (PDF). Version 1.0. Cartography by Main Roads Western Australia. Main Roads Western Australia. 16 August 2013. Archived from the original on 29 August 2013.
  • South West Region map (PDF) (PDF). Version 1.0. Cartography by Main Roads Western Australia. Main Roads Western Australia. 13 August 2013. Archived from the original on 29 August 2013.
  • MRWA Integrated Service Arrangement maps (PDFs) – shows and lists state roads and MRWA road numbers
Extended content

State / Territory Gazettes

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Other maps

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  • Open Street Map – as open data, this can be used to add maps to articles (Copyright and License, Legal FAQ). Limited amounts of data can be exported as data (.osm file) and converted to other formats. GIS data is also available for download from Open Street Map and third party sites
  • Google Maps – Can be used a reference for route description and lengths. Use the get directions feature from the start of the road to the end of the road, resulting in a line from one end of the road to the other. Add extra points if needed to keep the directions to the road you want. Get the url of the current map view, including search results or directions, by clicking the link icon at the top-right of the search results pane. In the Wikipedia article, use the {{Google maps}} template to properly format the reference (place between <ref> </ref> tags).
  • Bing Maps
  • Street-directory.com.au – Some areas, at certain zoom levels, show pages from commercial street directories including Melway, Sydway, Brisway, and Street Smart

Historical maps

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  • MELWAY Edition 1 – 1966 maps of Melbourne, available for free online. There are also additional maps of further out areas of Melbourne from editions 2 to 5.

Roadgeek sites

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There are multiple roadgeek sites with loads of useful information on Australian roads. However, these sites can not be reliable sources, as they are self-published, and therefore they should not be used as references for Wikipedia articles. However, once information is found on these sites, it can often be corroborated with a reliable sources, such as official or government published documents. Also note that resources on these sites, such as images, must be released by the copyright holder under an appropriate license before they can be reused here (for more information, see Wikipedia:Image use policy).

If you see these sites used as references, please tag them with {{Self-published source}}. Eventually, or as soon as possible, such references should be replaced with citations to reliable sources.

Guidelines and essays

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Guidelines
Essays

Useful tools

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  • Reflinks – Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
  • Checklinks – Edit and repair external links
  • Dab solver – Quickly resolve ambiguous links
  • Peer reviewer – Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles

Userspace resources

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  • Userboxes for your user page are available, see the userbox page for details.
  • The project barnstar can be awarded by any project member to any other editor who has made significant or useful contributions to Wikipedia's articles associated with Australian roads.
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