Australian spatial information resources

Links to Australian organisations, companies, or internet sites which give map and / or other spatial information; including digital data. A number of the organisations noted here (both in government and private sectors) make their products (maps, data, etc) available for sale. Please check their websites for further details.

• Australia
• Australian Capital Territory
• New South Wales
• Northern Territory
• Queensland
• South Australia
• Tasmania
• Victoria
• Western Austalia
• Other administrated territories

Australia

• ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics
• Australian Commonwealth Governement Entry
• Australian governments (Federal and State) entry point
• Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry - Australia (DAFF), Department of
• Australian Antarctic Data Centre
• Australian Coastal Atlas
• Australian Geographic Place Names (National Gazetteer)
• Australian Hydrographic Office includes links to "Notices to Mariners", Maritime Gazetteer and Australian Chart Index.
• Australian Atlas of minerals resources, mines and processing centres, Geoscience Australia. Includes "Australia's Identified Mineral Resources 2008".
• Australian Natural Resource Atlas includes "Map Maker"
• ANZLIC Australia New Zealand Land Information Council
  • ANZMETA SGML/XML Document Type Definition (DTD) for geospatial metadata in Australasia
• AUSWAY Publishing search and produce street maps of Sydney or Melbourne.
• ASDD Australian Spatial Data Directory
• Bureau of Meteorology, Australia
  • Climate information including recent and historical data
• CSIRO Australia
• Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology
• Commonwealth Office of Spatial Data Management (OSDM) information about the Commonwealth's spatial data policy.
• Department of the Environment and Heritage
• Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources
• Directorate of Oceanography & Meteorology, Royal Australian Navy, incorporating the Australian Oceanographic Data Centre.
• Geoscience Australia
  • Australian Marine Spatial Information System (AMSIS) - information about Australia's Marine Jurisdiction (80 plus layers of data)
  • As the Cocky Flies calculates the distance between two places in Australia.
  • AUSGEO News
  • Download data free (includes 250K topographic data in raster format). Registration required.
  • Geodesy and GPS (including Astronomical and geodetic calculations)
  • Geoscience Australia Library
  • Geoscience Australia Products (Map enabled)
  • Maps and Images of Australia many free
  • Mapconnect - interactive online mapping service allowing preview and downloads of the GEODATA TOPO 250K Series 3 data
  • OzCoasts information about Australia’s coast (including estuaries and coastal waterways)
  • Place name search - gazetteer of Australian place names.
• Whereis Street Atlas search for an Australian address and generate a map of its location. Uses UBD street directories.

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Australian Capital Territory

• Australian Capital Territory Government Entry
• Canberra, "Origins and meaninings of Canberra's suburb and street names", ACT, Planning and Land Authority

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New South Wales

• New South Wales Government Entry
• Community Access to Natural Resources Information (CANRI)
• Department of Lands, New South Wales (LPI)
  • GIS portal
• Geographical Names Register, (name search) Geographical Names Board of NSW
• New South Wales Department of Primary Industry / Minerals
• North Coast Spatial Information Group

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Northern Territory

• Northern Territory Government Entry
• Department of Business, Industry and Resource Development, Minerals and Energy links to "STRIKE" the Spatial Territory Resource Information Kit for Exploration
• Department of Prmary Industry, Fisheries and Mines
• Northern Territory Place Names Register, Northern Territory Department of Planning and Infrastructure

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Queensland

• Queensland Government Entry
• Department of Natural Resources and Water Queensland
• Environment and Resources
• Place Names Online Search, Queensland Natural Resources and Mines

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South Australia

• South Australia Government Entry
• Department of Primary Industries and Resources
• South Australia State Gazetteer, SA Environment and Geographic Information

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Tasmania

• Tasmania Government Entry
• Mineral Resources Tasmania (MRT), Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources. Includes link to TIGER (Tasmanian Information on Geoscience and Exploration Resources)
• Department of Primary Industries, Water & Environment.

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Victoria

• Victoria Government Entry
  • Information Victoria for information on State Government.
• Department of Primary Industries incorporates Customer Services, Agriculture and Food, Fishing and Aquaculture, Minerals and Petroleum, Science and Research, and Trade and Investment.
  • NRE: Minerals and Petroleum includes "GeoVic" web mapping application allowing datasets to be viewed and interrogated (including mineral, petroleum and extractive industries tenements, land-use and airborne geophysical survey boundaries, gravity, magnetic and radiometric images, borehole & well data, surface geochemistry results, mines and mineral occurrences)
  • Property, Titles, Maps including links information about map products such as Vicmap, Property Report, Land Channel - Interactive Map, or MapShare.
• Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) incorporates Coasts and Marine, Conservation and Environment, Customer Services, Fire Management, Forestry, Heritage, Land and Water, Parks and Reserves, Planning, Plants and Animals, Property, Titles and Maps and Recreation and Tourism
• Dictionary of Aboriginal Placenames of Victoria, compiled by Ian D. Clark and Toby Heydon
• Environment Protection Authority
• GI Connections Victorian GI sites, sources, etc. (includes aerial photography, digital maps etc)
• Land Channel Victorian spatial information. Includes gazetteer of Victorian Place names.
• Melbourne transport information, links to various Melbourne transport information sites - Monash University Library.
• Melbourne Water
• Vicmaps Topographic Maps 1: 30000. A4 and A3 maps covering the whole state of Victoria. Fee based service.
  • Monash staff and students have access to VicMap topographic maps (restricted access) on campus only.
• VICNAMES geographic place names register of Victoria, Victoria Registrar of Geographic Names
• VICNET Victoria's Network

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Western Australia

• Geological Survey of Western Australia, Department of Industry and Resources
• Western Australia Government Entry
• Landgate, land and property information, WA
• Department of Land Information
• WALIS WA consortium of land and geographic information system agencies. Include link to Western Australian Atlas

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Other administered territories

• Australian Antarctic Division
  • Australian Antarctic Data Centre for Antarctic Names and Gazetteer, interactive online maps, etc.
• Territories administered by the Commonwealth Department of Transport and Regional Services covers Ashmore and Cartier Islands; Australian Capital Territory; Christmas Island; Cocos (Keeling) Islands; Coral Sea Islands; Jervis Bay; Norfolk Island; Northern Territory. (See "Territories of Australia") link on DOTARS home page.

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