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Victorian 4wd track closures

I just got back from a weekend of camping near Walhalla which is a really beautify area if you ever get the chance to visit.  Anyway, I had heard a number of the people coming were planning to go four-wheel driving and I thought it might be a chance to find out what my new (to me) Freelander could do, so I set about making some maps of the area. The maps just re-use a set of styles I had previously developed to create some topographic maps of rural areas that had worked pretty well for me in the past, with almost all the data downloaded from data.vic.gov.au .  Everything was going well until realised I should check if there were any track closures in the area and after a quick google search I found Parks Victoria - Seasonal road closures , and it turns out there were quite a few, both seasonal and management vehicle only tracks.  In the past I had tried to use tracks from the Vicmap Transport - Road Network dataset that on arriving at the track, discovered they had clearly closed ma