ABOUT GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA'S NATIONAL MAPPING DIVISION
Geoscience Australia is the national agency for geoscience research and spatial
information. It serves government and supports the community through its output
areas of geoscience for urban centres, oceans and coasts, and regional and rural areas.
The National Mapping Division within Geoscience Australia undertakes national mapping,
geodetic, remote sensing, and land information coordination activities in support of
Australia's economic and social development.
The National Mapping Division was formerly known as the Australian Surveying and
Land Information Group (AUSLIG), Australia's national mapping
agency. In September 2001, AUSLIG merged with the Australian Geological Survey
Organisation (AGSO - Geoscience Australia) to form Geoscience
Australia, the national agency for spatial information in Australia.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS
Data Acknowledgements
Geoscience Australia's National Mapping Division gratefully acknowledges contributions
to map content. Information is supplied by Commonwealth,
State, Territory, and local government agencies as well as private sector agencies and individuals. A
comprehensive list of contributors is available on the Topographic
Mapping pages on the NATMAP web site.
The place name data contained within this product is from the Gazetteer of Australia.
Copyright of the Gazetteer of Australia resides with the relevant State, Territory and Commonwealth Governments and Australia Post © 2002.
The Landsat Satellite Mosaic of Australia was created by GeoImage Pty Ltd for the Australian
Greenhouse Office as part of the National Carbon Accounting System. Scenes were acquired by
the Australian Centre for Remote Sensing (ACRES), Geoscience Australia.
Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 2001.
Software Acknowledgements
The NATMAP RASTER VIEWER software was developed by
to provide easy access to the images contained in NATMAP Raster products. NATMAP RASTER VIEWER provides a set
of tools for selecting, displaying, printing and exporting maps.
CONDITIONS OF USE
Geoscience Australia retains and administers Commonwealth Copyright for all images used in
NATMAP Raster in accordance with the Copyright Act 1968.
The use of any maps or images from this product, with or without modification, is permitted
for personal or private use only.
Full details on the conditions of use can be found in the licence agreement.
Where any mapping material is to be used for personal research, assignments for educational purposes,
or for internal company reports, provided the words "Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 2003"
appear with all uses, no application to Geoscience Australia to use the material is required.
A copyright licence must first be obtained from Geoscience Australia for the use of any maps or
images derived from NATMAP Raster in any books, reports, advertising brochures or any other medium for
public consumption or for commercial purposes.
For information and/or help in facilitating your application, please contact the Geoscience
Australia Copyright Officer.
For further information refer to Geoscience Australia's Copyright Policy.
Commonwealth Spatial Data Access and Pricing Policy
The NATMAP Raster products, along with the other NATMAP paper products, does not
fall under the Spatial Data Access and Pricing Policy. The policy covers selected
digital datasets. For more information, refer to the
Commonwealth Office of Spatial Data Management Spatial Data Policy website.
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ACCURACY AND RELIABILITY OF DATA
The map images used in NATMAP Raster products are constructed
from digital topographic data or scanned from paper maps with a basic horizontal accuracy of approximately +/- 140 metres.
The images have been computer post-processed to re-project and georeference the images to the
Map Grid of Australia (MGA) for the Mapsheets product and the Geocentric Datum of Australia (GDA94)
for the Mosaic product, and have undergone subsequent validation. Therefore, the accuracy of positions reported
by the software should approach that of the original paper map.
Topographic information included in the map images have been checked from multiple sources
including SPOT imagery. Maps have not been field checked, so some information may not be
accurate or up-to-date. An example of rapidly changing features are telecommunication towers
which proliferate at an an ever-increasing rate. Homestead names are also subject to
regular change and are difficult to keep up-to-date.
Every effort has been made to make the map images a useful reference, but feedback from
map users is very valuable. If you discover errors or omissions on the map, please
contact NATMAP customer support or send your annotated map to us (we will replace your map
with the corresponding current edition). We value your assistance for the next edition.
Reliability of individual map sheets can be found here.
More information on the maps themselves can be found in the About NATMAP Raster pages.
The custodians of the Gazetteer of Australia data used in the Place Name Search
and Geoscience Australia do not warrant that the data is free from
errors or omissions. Also, the custodians and Geoscience Australia shall not be in any way liable for any loss,
damage or injury suffered by the licensed user of the data or any other person or organisation consequent
upon or incidental to the existence of errors or omissions in the data.
The postcode information contained in the Place Name Search tool has been reproduced with
Australia Post's permission from the Australia Post Postcode Database on 4 October 2002. The contents of
the Database are subject to change without notice and remain at all
times the property of Australia
Post and shall not be reproduced without Australia Post's permission. Australia Post is the copyright
owner of the Postcode Database. In compiling the Database Australia Post has used its best
endeavours to ensure that the information contained therein is correct and current at the time of
publication but takes no responsibility for any error or defect therein. Australia Post shall not
be liable for any loss or damage arising from the use of, or reliance placed on, any information
provided by it.
