Australian National Topographic Base Map Without Labels
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Description
A seamless topographic color map service covering all of Australia and its external territories. The map integrates data from Geoscience Australia, the Australian Antarctic Division, and OpenStreetMap, featuring cultural, hydrography, marine, transport, vegetation, and relief themes. The topographic information was checked in 2008 and supplemented in 2009, with limited field checking noted.
Use Cases
Create custom labeled maps based on integrated cultural, hydrographic, and transport data.
Conduct land use and vegetation analysis based on the aggregated ACLUMP vegetation layer.
Perform elevation and relief modeling based on SRTM-derived digital elevation model data.
Analyze coastal and marine features based on bathymetry sourced from Natural Earth.
Strengths
Covers the entire Australian continent, its outer islands, and external territories including Antarctic territory.
Integrates data from multiple authoritative sources including Geoscience Australia and OpenStreetMap.
Includes detailed themes such as vegetation from the Australian Collaborative Land Use and Management Program.
Limitations
Topographic information was last checked in 2008-2009, with limited field checking; some information may not be accurate.
Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and structure require manual inspection after download.
Row count and specific file formats beyond HTML are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
Source
Geoscience Australia, Australian Antarctic Division, OpenStreetMap, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Natural Earth.
Collection Method
Aggregated from multiple topographic mapping datasets, satellite imagery, and open-source contributions.
Time Range
Topographic data checked circa 2008-2009; SRTM data acquired February 2000; suburb data from 2018 and 2020.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-06-27 21:45:43.490103; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Australia, including Norfolk, Lord Howe, Macquarie, Cocos (Keeling), Christmas, Heard and McDonald Islands, and the Australian Antarctic Territory.
This version of the base map does not have any labeling; labels must be added separately. The service is accessed via HTML (MapServer), not a direct data download.