Yellow Creek from Vera Court
Access verdict · Lawful, with caveats · weakest evidence in the chain: statutory inference
A lawful approach from Vera Court, with caveats.
The chain below runs entirely across land the public has an established right to be on. It is a legal line, not a path: nothing here has been surveyed on the ground.
On-ground signage and temporary closures override this page. Always.
Getting to the start The trailhead coordinate, not the feature
The start is at -27.05542, 152.85587
That is Vera Court, where the walk below begins — 10.2 km of it. Every link here goes to that coordinate and never to the feature itself, because a driving route to a waterfall is a driving route into the country above one.
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-27.05542, 152.85587
An ordinary car reaches the start The roads layer marks the road reaching this point as trafficable by an ordinary vehicle.
The coordinate is where the recorded way begins, read off the same layers as the walk. What the record says about a vehicle is above, and it describes this point rather than the drive to it. Whether the road is sealed, gated, or open today, and where a car may lawfully be left, are none of them things these records say — so treat the last few kilometres as unresearched, and the mapping service's route to them as its own work, not ours.
The chain, leg by leg Computed from cadastral geometry; never walked
| # | Runs along | Parcel / reference | Mapped along it | Distance | Bearing | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Road reserve | 1545815 | nothing mapped | 20.1 m | 334.9° NNW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 2 | Road reserve | 1545853 | nothing mapped | 93.3 m | 54.4° NE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 3 | Road reserve | 1538937 | nothing mapped | 389.0 m | 188.2° S | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 4 | Road reserve | 1538975 | nothing mapped | 637.6 m | 278.2° W | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 5 | Road reserve | 1555771 | nothing mapped | 579.6 m | 319.1° NW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 6 | Road reserve | 1522559 | nothing mapped | 35.1 m | 304.4° NW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 7 | Road reserve | 1513667 | nothing mapped | 165.9 m | 306.5° NW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 8 | Watercourse bed | 1520127 | nothing mapped | 6.4 m | 280.6° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 9 | Watercourse bed | 1520127 | nothing mapped | 6.4 m | 280.6° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 10 | Watercourse bed | 1514959 | nothing mapped | 7.6 m | 266.5° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 11 | Watercourse bed | 1520165 | nothing mapped | 7.6 m | 266.5° W | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| 12 | Road reserve | 1513705 | nothing mapped | 71.2 m | 266.5° W | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 13 | Road reserve | 1517771 | nothing mapped | 34.4 m | 266.5° W | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 14 | Road reserve | 1513819 | nothing mapped | 371.5 m | 261.9° W | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 15 | Road reserve | 1513857 | nothing mapped | 24.6 m | 296.3° WNW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 16 | Road reserve | 1514693 | nothing mapped | 1310.9 m | 325.2° NW | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 17 | Road reserve | 1514731 | nothing mapped | 42.6 m | 21.5° NNE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 18 | Road reserve | 1514769 | nothing mapped | 106.7 m | 40.0° NE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 19 | Road reserve | 1517391 | nothing mapped | 1598.3 m | 58.5° ENE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 20 | Road reserve | 1518227 | nothing mapped | 855.4 m | 76.8° ENE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 21 | Road reserve | 1517353 | nothing mapped | 249.9 m | 148.4° SSE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 22 | Road reserve | 1529171 | nothing mapped | 768.2 m | 143.9° SE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 23 | Road reserve | 1533427 | nothing mapped | 32.8 m | 109.7° ESE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 24 | Road reserve | 1532211 | nothing mapped | 92.3 m | 136.3° SE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 25 | Road reserve | 1531527 | nothing mapped | 20.1 m | 173.2° S | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 26 | Road reserve | 1531641 | nothing mapped | 162.6 m | 176.1° S | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 27 | Road reserve | 1536201 | nothing mapped | 2313.3 m | 153.1° SSE | Official spatial — evidence class |
| 28 | Watercourse bed | 1540153 | nothing mapped | 169.8 m | 105.7° ESE | Statutory inference — evidence class |
| Total | no way mapped | 10173.2 m | Chain confidence Statutory inference — evidence class | |||
Every leg above is computed from cadastral geometry. Nobody has walked it, and no part of it is a path on the ground: it is the line along which the public record establishes a right to be. Where a leg names a way, that is what a managing authority has mapped down the same ground — it says nothing more about your right to be there, which the parcel already settled.
Caveats — what has to be said before walking this
- Corner-point junction. Two parcels in the chain meet at a single survey point. They are legally continuous public land, but the junction has no width on the ground.
- Watercourse crossing. The chain crosses a watercourse bed. The bed is State land by statutory inference, there is no structure, and the crossing is off in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1513667 and 1520127 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1520127 and 1514959 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1520127 and 1520165 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The narrowest gap between 1514959 and 1513705 is 0.00 m. There is no structure. Do not cross in high flow.
- Measured crossing. The gap between the parcels either side of this crossing could not be measured from the geometry, which is a reason for more caution, not less.
Following it on the ground No published way to follow
at least 5 hours out and back
at least 2½ hours there at least 2½ hours back
250 m up and 275 m down on the way out — so the return leg climbs 275 m.
Walking only — nothing is counted for rest, water, photographs, navigation, or the state of the track.
No directions are published for this approach. The chain above is a statement about permission, not a path, and turning a run of parcels into "walk north-east for 380 m" would tell you where to walk on evidence nobody holds — including where a way is mapped along it, because what was measured is the chain and not the way. Steps appear here only for a route that follows a surveyed way end to end.
How much climbing Read off the published contour layer
- Total climb
- 250.0 m
- Total descent
- 275.0 m
- Steepest sustained
- 28.3% over 52.9 m
- Contour interval
- 5.0 m
Every height the contours record along this route
| Distance along | Height |
|---|---|
| 50.9 m | 45.0 m |
| 137.4 m | 45.0 m |
| 320.4 m | 45.0 m |
| 346.8 m | 40.0 m |
| 393.7 m | 40.0 m |
| 443.8 m | 45.0 m |
| 494.1 m | 50.0 m |
| 606.4 m | 50.0 m |
| 672.1 m | 45.0 m |
| 738.5 m | 45.0 m |
| 883.9 m | 50.0 m |
| 1163.4 m | 50.0 m |
| 1247.8 m | 50.0 m |
| 1271.4 m | 55.0 m |
| 1355.3 m | 60.0 m |
| 1481.8 m | 60.0 m |
| 1655.5 m | 55.0 m |
| 1677.0 m | 55.0 m |
| 1698.7 m | 55.0 m |
| 1801.9 m | 50.0 m |
| 1895.8 m | 45.0 m |
| 1921.0 m | 40.0 m |
| 1940.0 m | 40.0 m |
| 1991.5 m | 45.0 m |
| 2016.5 m | 50.0 m |
| 2259.9 m | 55.0 m |
| 2339.9 m | 60.0 m |
| 2400.6 m | 65.0 m |
| 2561.5 m | 65.0 m |
| 2691.7 m | 60.0 m |
| 2768.3 m | 60.0 m |
| 2872.2 m | 65.0 m |
| 2920.8 m | 65.0 m |
| 2970.0 m | 65.0 m |
| 3026.2 m | 70.0 m |
| 3032.7 m | 70.0 m |
| 3033.2 m | 70.0 m |
| 3067.0 m | 70.0 m |
| 3092.6 m | 65.0 m |
| 3100.4 m | 65.0 m |
| 3135.5 m | 70.0 m |
| 3157.3 m | 75.0 m |
| 3180.3 m | 80.0 m |
| 3206.9 m | 85.0 m |
| 3244.1 m | 90.0 m |
| 3260.8 m | 90.0 m |
| 3295.1 m | 85.0 m |
| 3331.7 m | 80.0 m |
| 3367.7 m | 75.0 m |
| 3456.4 m | 75.0 m |
| 3530.8 m | 80.0 m |
| 3561.9 m | 85.0 m |
| 3595.4 m | 90.0 m |
| 3626.2 m | 95.0 m |
| 3650.8 m | 100.0 m |
| 3671.6 m | 105.0 m |
| 3688.4 m | 110.0 m |
| 3712.0 m | 115.0 m |
| 3743.1 m | 120.0 m |
| 3797.6 m | 125.0 m |
| 3827.9 m | 130.0 m |
| 3844.1 m | 130.0 m |
| 3871.6 m | 125.0 m |
| 3887.1 m | 120.0 m |
| 3899.6 m | 120.0 m |
| 3932.3 m | 125.0 m |
| 3962.0 m | 125.0 m |
| 3985.3 m | 120.0 m |
| 4045.8 m | 115.0 m |
| 4073.1 m | 110.0 m |
| 4090.4 m | 105.0 m |
| 4104.0 m | 100.0 m |
| 4126.0 m | 95.0 m |
| 4145.9 m | 90.0 m |
| 4173.2 m | 85.0 m |
| 4210.1 m | 80.0 m |
| 4347.3 m | 75.0 m |
| 4378.6 m | 75.0 m |
| 4405.3 m | 80.0 m |
| 4447.4 m | 85.0 m |
| 4473.2 m | 90.0 m |
| 4494.7 m | 95.0 m |
| 4555.5 m | 95.0 m |
| 4657.9 m | 90.0 m |
| 4783.6 m | 85.0 m |
| 4860.1 m | 80.0 m |
| 4867.8 m | 80.0 m |
| 4878.2 m | 80.0 m |
| 4915.2 m | 80.0 m |
| 4940.2 m | 80.0 m |
| 4996.2 m | 75.0 m |
| 5079.8 m | 70.0 m |
| 5216.6 m | 65.0 m |
| 5282.8 m | 60.0 m |
| 5352.9 m | 55.0 m |
| 5397.2 m | 50.0 m |
| 5497.8 m | 45.0 m |
| 5502.8 m | 45.0 m |
| 5621.6 m | 45.0 m |
| 5650.0 m | 40.0 m |
| 5671.6 m | 35.0 m |
| 5675.0 m | 35.0 m |
| 5754.2 m | 40.0 m |
| 5856.5 m | 40.0 m |
| 5871.0 m | 35.0 m |
| 5892.7 m | 35.0 m |
| 5980.2 m | 40.0 m |
| 6012.3 m | 45.0 m |
| 6137.2 m | 50.0 m |
| 6260.5 m | 55.0 m |
| 6357.3 m | 60.0 m |
| 6398.2 m | 60.0 m |
| 6674.3 m | 60.0 m |
| 6873.0 m | 65.0 m |
| 7112.2 m | 70.0 m |
| 7450.6 m | 75.0 m |
| 7512.3 m | 80.0 m |
| 7719.0 m | 80.0 m |
| 7802.1 m | 75.0 m |
| 7883.8 m | 70.0 m |
| 7913.3 m | 65.0 m |
| 7933.9 m | 60.0 m |
| 7950.2 m | 55.0 m |
| 7966.9 m | 50.0 m |
| 8005.9 m | 50.0 m |
| 8027.3 m | 55.0 m |
| 8070.2 m | 60.0 m |
| 8108.5 m | 60.0 m |
| 8144.7 m | 55.0 m |
| 8162.6 m | 50.0 m |
| 8180.6 m | 45.0 m |
| 8202.7 m | 40.0 m |
| 8224.1 m | 35.0 m |
| 8237.9 m | 35.0 m |
| 8271.4 m | 40.0 m |
| 8297.6 m | 45.0 m |
| 8390.2 m | 45.0 m |
| 8403.6 m | 40.0 m |
| 8406.7 m | 40.0 m |
| 8426.0 m | 45.0 m |
| 8456.7 m | 45.0 m |
| 8486.7 m | 40.0 m |
| 8500.8 m | 35.0 m |
| 8523.3 m | 30.0 m |
| 8623.5 m | 25.0 m |
| 8653.0 m | 25.0 m |
| 8731.8 m | 30.0 m |
| 8980.5 m | 30.0 m |
| 8988.7 m | 30.0 m |
| 9020.6 m | 30.0 m |
| 9052.7 m | 25.0 m |
| 9100.8 m | 25.0 m |
| 9117.7 m | 25.0 m |
| 9131.7 m | 25.0 m |
| 9135.7 m | 25.0 m |
| 9351.8 m | 25.0 m |
| 9380.6 m | 25.0 m |
| 9484.5 m | 25.0 m |
| 9505.8 m | 30.0 m |
| 9605.9 m | 30.0 m |
| 9753.2 m | 30.0 m |
| 9811.3 m | 30.0 m |
| 9972.9 m | 25.0 m |
| 10082.6 m | 25.0 m |
| 10113.7 m | 25.0 m |
| 10172.7 m | 20.0 m |
The profile is the height the contour layer already records, read along the same line the legs above describe. It is not a survey of a path: nothing here says the ground between two contours is even, and a layer of 5.0 m contours cannot evidence a step smaller than the gap between them.
The line on the ground
Map
Route map: 28 legs from Vera Court, 10173.2 m in total.
What the colours mean
- Land — the council area the region is published under
- Water beyond the council boundary
- Freehold or leasehold — no public access
- National park / protected estate — public land
- Road reserve
- Watercourse
- Track recorded by the managing authority
- Contour, every 10 m of height — nothing is implied about the ground between two of them
- Tenure unresolved — treated as no access
- Where your device says you are, shown only if you press the locate button — read as a rough fix, not a position, and never sent anywhere
- A place with a published approach — the pin is a link to it
- A place with none — every one is listed under the map with its verdict in words
- Where a published approach starts — each one has a page of its own below
- The walk — the line the legs below describe, not a surveyed path
- The parcels it crosses — the evidence the walk is lawful
- Watercourse crossing — no structure, off in high flow
Names on the map come from the same official records as the rest of the page — road and track names from the cadastre and the access layer, watercourses and estates from their own layers. A feature the record does not name is left unlabelled rather than guessed at.
Sources, licences and dataset versions for everything this map draws.
Every figure the map would draw — parcel references, distances, bearings and the crossing gap — is written out in full on this page, so nothing is only visible on the map. If the map does not load, nothing has been lost.
What this verdict rests on Grades compose to the weakest link
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The destination sits on the parcel below Official spatial — evidence class
Parcel 1540153, recorded tenure "Watercourse". Being at the destination and reaching it are separate questions, and this page answers only the second.
Cadastre and protected-area estate layers Attribution licensed
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Leg 1: 1545815 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
20.1 m at 334.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1545815 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 2: 1545853 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
93.3 m at 54.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1545853 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 3: 1538937 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
389.0 m at 188.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1538937 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 4: 1538975 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
637.6 m at 278.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1538975 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 5: 1555771 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
579.6 m at 319.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1555771 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 6: 1522559 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
35.1 m at 304.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1522559 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 7: 1513667 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
165.9 m at 306.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1513667 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 8: 1520127 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
6.4 m at 280.6°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 1520127 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 9: 1520127 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
6.4 m at 280.6°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 1520127 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 10: 1514959 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
7.6 m at 266.5°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 1514959 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 11: 1520165 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
7.6 m at 266.5°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 1520165 Grade statutory_inference
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Leg 12: 1513705 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
71.2 m at 266.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1513705 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 13: 1517771 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
34.4 m at 266.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1517771 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 14: 1513819 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
371.5 m at 261.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1513819 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 15: 1513857 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
24.6 m at 296.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1513857 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 16: 1514693 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
1310.9 m at 325.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1514693 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 17: 1514731 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
42.6 m at 21.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1514731 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 18: 1514769 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
106.7 m at 40.0°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1514769 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 19: 1517391 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
1598.3 m at 58.5°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1517391 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 20: 1518227 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
855.4 m at 76.8°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1518227 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 21: 1517353 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
249.9 m at 148.4°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1517353 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 22: 1529171 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
768.2 m at 143.9°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1529171 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 23: 1533427 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
32.8 m at 109.7°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1533427 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 24: 1532211 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
92.3 m at 136.3°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1532211 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 25: 1531527 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
20.1 m at 173.2°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1531527 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 26: 1531641 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
162.6 m at 176.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1531641 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 27: 1536201 carries a right of passage Official spatial — evidence class
2313.3 m at 153.1°. Read from the mapped parcel geometry in the official layer, with no inference beyond what the record states.
Leg reference 1536201 Grade official_spatial
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Leg 28: 1540153 carries a right of passage Statutory inference — evidence class
169.8 m at 105.7°. The bed is State land by statutory inference from the Water Act 2000 (Qld) s.21 — law applied to a mapped parcel, not a finding by any authority.
Leg reference 1540153 Grade statutory_inference
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The chain is only as strong as its weakest link Statutory inference — evidence class
Confidence is not an average. It is the weakest class in the chain above, which is why a single inferred leg holds the whole route at statutory inference.
Composition rule: weakest grade wins Applied at build time
If something goes wrong
Emergency reference — read this to 000
- Location
- Yellow Creek
- Lot on plan
- 1540153
- Coordinates
- -27.06160, 152.87350 (WGS84 / GDA2020)
- Feature
- watercourse
What this approach was read from
- Cadastral data Queensland (DCDB), incl. easement layer — © State of Queensland (Department of Resources) CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22
- Queensland LiDAR-derived contours (5 m) — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-22
- Queensland local government area boundaries — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-27
- Queensland place names gazetteer — © State of Queensland CC-BY-4.0 · snapshot 2026-08-16