Map Collection: Australasian resources

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Federal, State and Local government entry point

includes links to "Notices to Mariners", Maritime Gazetteer and Australian Chart Index

◦ Climate and past weather including data, maps and climate extremes
◦ Monthly Weather Review all states. Includes link to Monthly Climate Summary, based on preliminary data (a day or so after the end of the month)
◦ Rainfall data (including maps, daily and average coverage)

A single point to find, access and reuse public datasets from the Australian Government and state and territory governments; both downloadable datasets and links to online data services.

◦ Environmental Resource Information Network (ERIN): provides online data, spatial data integration and analysis.
◦ National Vegetation Information System (NVIS): information on distribution of vegetation types in Australia.

please see below for highlighted sites

Data may be downloaded as individual tiles, or purchased as an entire dataset. Formats include: ASCII xyz; CARIS Grid file; GeoTIFF; and ESRI Grid.

calculates the distance between two places in Australia

Geoscience Australia's hub to a number of portals

Geoscience Australia. Includes "Australia's Identified Mineral Resources", minerals fact sheets, interactive mapping

National Gazetteer

(AMSIS) - information about Australia's Marine Jurisdiction (80 plus layers of data)

free (includes 250K topographic data in raster format). Registration required

From Geoscience Australia, the catalogue allows for searching and downloading of a wide range of spatially-referenced datasets (including reports, pdfs, etc) created by both the Australian and State and Territory Governments.

Links to various GA tools, datasets, maps etc.

Including Astronomical and geodetic calculations

2013 edition. Registration required, but download free.

Includes links to 250K geological maps and geological agencies

ICSM provides coordination and standards for surveying, mapping/charting and national datasets

interactive online mapping service allowing preview and downloads of the GEODATA TOPO 250K Series 3 data; from GA; 1:1mil scale maps; geological maps; and more.

Search and produce street maps of Melbourne; included links to products for Sydney and Brisbane

See also "Spatial data sets"

Beta version. Map-based access to authoritative spatial data from Australian government agencies.

Information about Australia’s coast (including estuaries and coastal waterways)

Map enabled Data Discovery Portal - University of Queensland, supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy and the Super Science Initiative.

Search for an Australian address and generate a map of its location. Uses UBD street directories

For Antarctic Names and Gazetteer, interactive online maps, etc.

free plug-in developed by the Queensland Government. It allows you to view a wide range of spatial data through Google Earth (kml file), including: addresses, localities and boundaries; road and rail networks; land parcels and tenure; areas affected by flood; topographical maps (from web site)

Topographic maps of Queensland

downloadable.

Links to various maps and data

Incorporates Property & Titles, Fire & Emergencies, Planning, Water, Parks, Forests & Crown Land; and Local Government.

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).
◦ Earth Resources Online store: for purchase or download of many maps, reports, etc.

Victorian spatial information. Includes gazetteer of Victorian Place names

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.

Produced by the then Department of Crown Lands and Survey and cover 30 minutes of longitude by 15 minutes of latitude - or 44 km by 28 km approximately. Based on the old 1:63,360 (1 inch to a mile) Topographic Map Series.

Directory of data (and tools) in various categories owned or generated by the Victorian government. Available at no or minimal cost.

including link to Geological Survey of WA

WA consortium of land and geographic information system agencies. Include link to West Australian Land Information System Atlas

National aerial imagery, covering 95% of the country from LINZ Data Service

For links to maps, charts, place names and more.