Sources
What this site is built from
Every figure on this site is computed from the snapshots listed here. Nothing is live: a dataset is only as current as its snapshot date, and a date that has aged is a reason to distrust the page, not the source.
Datasets consulted, and their licences
- New South Wales contours (Digital Topographic Database) — © State of New South Wales (Spatial Services) CC-BY-4.0
- New South Wales local government area boundaries — © State of New South Wales (Spatial Services) CC-BY-4.0
- NPWS managed land (New South Wales) — © State of New South Wales CC-BY-4.0
- Geographical Names Register of New South Wales — © State of New South Wales (Geographical Names Board of NSW) CC-BY-4.0
- New South Wales road and track centrelines (Digital Topographic Database) — © State of New South Wales (Spatial Services) CC-BY-4.0
- OpenStreetMap waterway=waterfall nodes (naming overlay only) — © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL (extract of 2026-08-16) ODbL-1.0
- Registered Aboriginal cultural heritage party boundaries (boundaries only) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0
- Cadastral data Queensland (DCDB), incl. easement layer — © State of Queensland (Department of Resources) CC-BY-4.0
- Queensland LiDAR-derived contours (5 m) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0
- Queensland local government area boundaries — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0
- QPWS park alerts (regional RSS) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0
- Queensland place names gazetteer — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0
- Protected areas of Queensland (estate polygons) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0
- QPWS access (walking tracks, roads, facilities) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0
- Queensland remnant regional ecosystems (biodiversity status) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0
- Queensland roads and tracks (named road centrelines) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0
- Queensland detailed surface geology (1:100 000) — © State of Queensland (Geological Survey of Queensland) CC-BY-4.0
- Queensland watercourse lines and water bodies — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0
- Queensland waterfall points (Foundation Data) — © State of Queensland (Department of Resources) CC-BY-4.0
- World heritage areas of Queensland — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0
Files the site ships Credited separately: shipped, not consulted for a verdict
Snapshot dates The date each dataset was read, not the date it was published
| Dataset | Snapshot |
|---|---|
| nsw-contours | 2026-08-24 |
| nsw-local-government-areas | 2026-08-25 |
| nsw-npws-estate | 2026-08-24 |
| nsw-place-names | 2026-08-25 |
| nsw-roads-and-tracks | 2026-08-24 |
| qld-ach-party-boundaries | 2026-08-23 |
| qld-dcdb-cadastre | 2026-08-22 |
| qld-lidar-contours | 2026-08-22 |
| qld-local-government-areas | 2026-08-25 |
| qld-park-alerts | 2026-08-23 |
| qld-place-names | 2026-08-16 |
| qld-protected-areas | 2026-08-23 |
| qld-qpws-access | 2026-08-23 |
| qld-regional-ecosystems | 2026-08-22 |
| qld-roads-and-tracks | 2026-08-22 |
| qld-surface-geology | 2026-08-22 |
| qld-watercourse-lines | 2026-08-22 |
| qld-waterfall-points | 2026-08-23 |
| qld-world-heritage | 2026-08-23 |
Rules applied to those records
NSW bed passage — none claimed
Crown Land Management Act 2016 (NSW) s 13.3 removes a riparian owner's entitlement to the bed only where the bed was reserved from sale or lease before s 172 of the Crown Lands Act 1989 commenced — a title question no spatial layer answers, so New South Wales carries no region-wide bed passage. No route published here walks the bed of a watercourse.
QLD bed passage (statutory inference)
Land Act 1994 (Qld) s 13A — land on the watercourse side of a non-tidal boundary is the property of the State, despite the alienation of the land. State ownership of a bed is not a public right of way: this is a statutory inference made by this site, not a finding of any court or authority.
What counts as arriving
for a cave, a way is the way to it where it passes within 25 m and no more than 10 m of height separates the two ; for a lookout, a way is the way to it where it passes within 25 m and no more than 10 m of height separates the two ; for a mountain, a way is the way to it where it passes within 25 m and no more than 5 m of height separates the two ; for a peak, a way is the way to it where it passes within 25 m and no more than 2 m of height separates the two ; for a waterfall, a way is the way to it where it passes within 25 m and no more than 10 m of height separates the two ; for a waterhole, a way is the way to it where it passes within 25 m and no more than 10 m of height separates the two . Both gaps are published on every route, so the rule can be checked against the answer.
When a leg is named for a way
A leg of a chain is named for a way where a mapped way runs within 25 m of the leg for at least 70% of its length. That tolerance absorbs the difference between a straight leg and a bending survey; it is not a claim about how accurately any position is known, and naming a way changes no verdict.
Community names are quarantined
Community names come from OpenStreetMap under ODbL and are labelled as community records. They are never blended into the graded chain that produces a verdict, and never enter the map tiles.