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Explore Road stopping places on state roads, Western Australia

Charts and tables over the 1,664 rows of the latest version, worked out in your browser from the Parquet file. Nothing you do here leaves the browser until you save a link.

The explorer needs JavaScript and a browser from the last few years. The dataset page has every file and the query API.

Data: Main Roads Western Australia, Government of Western Australia, Road Stopping Places, https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/mrwa-road-stopping-places, accessed 19 October 2026, licensed under CC BY 4.0. The Commissioner of Main Roads is the creator and owner of the data and Licenced Material, which is accessed pursuant to a Creative Commons (Attribution) Licence, which has a disclaimer of warranties and limitation of liability. Licence terms.

How it works

Change a panel

Press Edit at the top right of a panel to open its settings. Drag fields into Group by, Split by, Sort by and Filter, pick a chart type at the top, and choose sum, count or average beside each number. More fields lists everything else in the dataset. The chart types include bars, lines, areas, scatter plots, heatmaps, treemaps and sunbursts, and maps of the coordinates. Add a chart puts a new panel on the dashboard. Drag a panel's title bar to move it, or drag the line between panels to resize.

Filter every panel at once

The chart marked Click to filter the others does just that: click a bar and the other panels show only those rows. Click it again to clear. Any panel can do the same. Open the menu at the left of its title bar and turn on filtering from there.

Share or keep a dashboard

The address bar holds the whole dashboard, so copying it is enough. Save a short link to store the dashboard on this site and get a shorter address. A saved dashboard never changes; saving again after an edit makes a new link. Embed gives a frame you can paste into a web page, with the attribution inside it.

Download what you see

The export button in a panel's settings toolbar downloads the panel as CSV, JSON or Arrow, or a chart as PNG. The copy button beside it puts the same data on the clipboard. The full files are on the dataset page.

What the fields mean

The explorer names each field in words. The files and the query API use the field name beside it.

In the explorerField nameTypeNote
Longitudexnumber
Latitudeynumber
Object idobjectidinteger
Global idglobalidstring
Road numberroadstring
Roadroad_namestring
Common road namecommon_usage_namestring
Start straight line kilometrestart_slknumber
End straight line kilometreend_slknumber
Carriagewaycwystring
Start true distancestart_true_distnumber
End true distanceend_true_distnumber
Network typenetwork_typestring
Region numberra_nostring
Regionra_namestring
Local government numberlg_nostring
Local government arealg_namestring
Cross section positionxspstring
Typerest_area_typestring
24 hour staystay_24_hourstring
Namerest_area_namestring
Ownershipownershipstring
Information boardinformation_boardboolean
Scenic lookoutscenic_lookoutboolean
Commemoration waycommemoration_waystring
Surfacesurfacestring
Surface typesurface_typestring
Surface areasurface_areainteger
Constructed shelterconstructed_shelterboolean
Natural shadenatural_shadeboolean
Lightinglighting_presentstring
Binsnumber_of_binsinteger
Toiletsnumber_of_toiletsinteger
Accessible toiletsaccessible_toiletsboolean
Effluent dump pointeffluent_dump_siteboolean
Tablesnumber_of_tablesinteger
Accessible tablesaccessible_tablesboolean
Route network element idroute_ne_idnumber
How it runs

The page downloads DuckDB and Perspective once, about 17 MB, then this version's data.parquet (139 KB). Every chart is a query DuckDB answers in the browser, so there is no rate limit and the files stay the only source. A saved dashboard over a dated version keeps showing that version's numbers. A map panel draws its background from OpenStreetMap tiles, so while one is on screen your browser asks OpenStreetMap for them and it sees your IP address. The data itself never leaves the browser.