Caretaker Conventions

Soil and Land Resources of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT)

This digital soil landscape product contains natural resource mapping for the Australian Capital Territory. The project was completed by the Office of Environment and Heritage (NSW). The project was funded by the ACT Government to enhance knowledge of soils, landscapes and physical constraints to land use in the urban and rural environment. The information will assist in informed decision making, planning and environmental modelling throughout the catchment.

55 soil landscape map units have been described for the ACT. Each unit is an inventory of soil and landscape information with relatively uniform land management requirements, allowing major soil and landscape qualities and constraints to be identified.

The GIS product shown here provides location of each of the soil landscape map units - including the soil landscape code and name. For more detailed information please see the full soil landscape reports for each unit, as well as the final report shown at: https://www.environment.act.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/2079667/soil-landscapes-of-the-act-2016.pdf. Detailed spreadsheets can be used to join more detailed information to the GIS also available on request. Also view: https://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/soil-and-land-resources-of-the-australian-capital-territory-act. See eSpade for soil results: https://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/soil-and-land-resources-of-the-australian-capital-territory-act/resource/b879ac81-fa14-4bb9-aca7-408fed6ab6bc

Reference: Cook, W., Jenkins, B., Young, M., Murphy, C., Milford H.B. and Muller, R. (2016) Soil Landscapes of the Australian Capital Territory, Office of Environment and Heritage, Queanbeyan, NSW.

This feature layer shows the extent of native, threatened and exotic grasslands in the ACT. Native grasslands of the Territory include a rich assemblage of flora and fauna species that combine into a unique ecosystem. These grasslands are a priority for protection and management as they contribute to our natural biodiversity, our history and heritage, and local amenity and community. Natural temperate grasslands are an Endangered Ecological Community in the ACT (Nature Conservation Act 2014) and Critically Endangered Ecological Community under the EPBC Act 1999. Other Native and Exotic grasslands in the ACT can also have some conservation significance as they support important populations of threatened fauna and flora.

This Java Script Open Notation (JSON) Feed and ArcGIS Online map presents the planned footpath closures within the ACT in real-time based on the submission of Temporary Traffic Management (TTM) plans.

The fields of the JSON string include:

Object ID (Numeric field)
Global ID (Alpha-numeric field)
Project title (Free text field string)
Type (Selected from: light rail, special event, road works, emergency, utilities, telecommunications, building construction, ActewAGL, NBN, charitable organisation, inclement weather, other)
Describe activity (Free text field string required if "other" type selected)
Footpaths closed (Free text field string)
Reason for footpath closure (Free text field string)
Closure start time (Unix Format - see data dictionary for syntax)
Closure end time (Unix Format - see data dictionary for syntax)
Geometry (X,Y longitude, latitude format)

More information regarding the syntax for querying this API can be found in the linked data dictionary.

As part of the ACT Government’s Open Government commitment, these are public summaries of matters considered by Cabinet.

This plan is for invasive plant control on public land in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). Many of the species are legally required to be controlled (pest plants).

Announcements from the ACT Library Service. This data is provided as an RSS feed.

The Bicentennial National Trail is Australia’s premier long distance, multi-use recreational trekking route, stretching an extraordinary 5,330 kilometres from Cooktown in tropical far north Queensland to Healesville in Victoria. The Bicentennial National Trail dataset provides polyline information identifying part of the trail alignment that runs through the Australian Capital Territory.

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Please read Data Terms and Conditions statement before use of the data.

Information about News and Events related to the Economic Development Directorate

Media Releases from the Economic Development Directorate

Invasive plant control on ACT public land in 2020-21. This Operations Dashboard summarises delivery of the ACT Parks - Invasive Plants Program https://actgov.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=cd59d70662c94c75a0492635f7925384#