National Base Map: Greyscale Topographic Maps for Australia
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Description
Australia's seamless greyscale topographic mapping service covers the mainland and external territories including Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Christmas Island, Norfolk Island, and Lord Howe Island. The service is produced for the National Map project, combining Geoscience Australia data at smaller scales with OpenStreetMap data at larger scales. It was last updated on 2026-05-05.
Use Cases
Create basemaps for thematic overlays based on seamless greyscale mapping.
Analyze topographic features across Australia based on the multi-scale data.
Integrate national-scale mapping into web applications based on the MapServer service.
Compare landform representation based on the combined Geoscience Australia and OpenStreetMap sources.
Strengths
Seamless coverage for the whole of Australia, including external territories.
Combines authoritative Geoscience Australia data with community-sourced OpenStreetMap data.
Last updated on 2026-05-05, indicating recent maintenance.
Limitations
Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Provenance
Source
Australian Ocean Data Network
Collection Method
Combined Geoscience Australia and OpenStreetMap data.
Freshness
2026-05-05
Geography
Australia and external territories (Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Christmas Island, Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island)