Australian National Topographic Base Map Without Labels

A seamless topographic color map service covering Australia, its outer islands, and external territories. The map integrates data from Geoscience Australia, the Australian Antarctic Division, and OpenStreetMap, portraying cultural, hydrography, marine, transport, vegetation, and relief themes. The topographic information was checked in 2008 and supplemented in 2009, with contributions from multiple government departments.

Use Cases

• Create custom thematic maps based on integrated cultural, hydrographic, and vegetation layers.
• Perform spatial analysis using the topographic and relief data for environmental or planning studies.
• Develop web mapping applications using the WMTS service as a foundational basemap layer.

Strengths

• Covers the whole of Australia, including outer islands and external territories like Norfolk, Lord Howe, and the Australian Antarctic Territory.
• Integrates data from multiple authoritative sources including Geoscience Australia, Australian Antarctic Division, and OpenStreetMap.
• Includes specific high-resolution mapping for Christmas Island (1:30,000 scale) and Cocos (Keeling) Islands (1:25,000 scale).

Limitations

• Topographic information was last checked in 2008 and supplemented in 2009, with limited field checking, so some features may not be accurate.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and structure require manual inspection after download.
• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

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 in 2008-2009; SRTM data acquired February 2000.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 02:01:13.071751; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia, including outer islands (Norfolk, Lord Howe, Macquarie), external territories (Cocos (Keeling), Christmas, Heard and McDonald Islands), and the Australian Antarctic Territory.