Australia and its external territories are covered by seamless greyscale topographic mapping. This service is produced for the National Map project, combining Geoscience Australia data at smaller scales with OpenStreetMap data at larger scales. The service contains layer scale dependencies and was last updated on 2026-04 10.
Use Cases
- Visualizing topographic features across Australia based on the seamless greyscale mapping.
- Integrating base map layers into web applications based on the service's scale dependencies.
- Performing spatial analysis for Australian territories based on the combined Geoscience Australia and OpenStreetMap data.
Strengths
- Covers the whole of Australia, including Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Christmas Island, Norfolk Island, and Lord Howe Island.
- Combines authoritative Geoscience Australia data with community-sourced OpenStreetMap data.
- Last updated on 2026-04-10, suggesting recent maintenance.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- The description does not specify the exact scale ranges or the license for use.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Produced for the National Map project, combining data from Geoscience Australia and OpenStreetMap.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-10 18:10:58.988890
- Geography
- Australia and its external territories (Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Christmas Island, Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island)