Guide to the New South Wales Australia 1:25 000 topographic series, 1968-

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Summary

Collection number:
MAP G8970 s25
Language:
English and English
Preferred citation:
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of map item], New South Wales Australia 1:25 000 topographic map series, National Library of Australia, MAP G8970 s25, [sheet number(s)]'.
Availability:
Available

Background

Content Summary:

Creator: Central Mapping Authority Department.

Topographic and orthophoto map series of New South Wales. Relief shown by contours, spot heights and form lines. Shows topographic, cadastral and local government information, built up areas, route markers, roads, tracks, railways, landmark features, water tanks or reservoirs, survey landmarks, cliffs. quarries, forests, woodlands, orchards, power transmission lines, cableways, pipelines, water features, ferry routes, lighthouses, buildings, ambulance and fire stations, electricity substations, wind generators, cadastral deposited plans, lot numbers, and boundaries.

The map series is also titled: Topographic map 1:25,000 : [New South Wales]; Topographic and orthophoto map 1:25 000 : [New South Wales]; New South Wales, Australia : topographic image map 1:25 000 [series]; Topographic map 1:25 000, New South Wales, Australia. Topographic image map 1:25 000 New South Wales, Australia. Sheets from 2011- include panel statement "Auto-generated series".

The series contains various editions of some sheets. Some earlier map sheets are provisional compilations on diazo format.

Scale 1:25,000. The geospatial reference data for some sheets is: Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994 (GDA94) or Australian Geodetic Datum 1966 (AGD66; Australian Height Datum. Earlier sheets include statement/s: Trigonometrical survey of NSW based on the Australian Geodetic Datum. Geodetic survey of NSW based on the Australian Geodetic Datum. Contour interval 10 metres. Contour interval 20 metres.

The series has various publishers and contain varying statements: Earliest sheets published by New South Wales. Department of Lands; Some earlier map sheets compiled by the Royal Australian Survey Corps. Early sheets have statement: drawn, printed and published by the Central Mapping Authority of N.S.W. from photogrammetric manuscripts supplied by the Royal Australian Survey Corps; compiled, drawn, printed and published by the Central Mapping Authority Department of Lands of New South Wales. Later issues of map sheets published in 2000 by Land and Property Information (N.S.W.); From 2004 map sheets published by Department of Lands, New South Wales; From 2009 map sheets published by Land and Property Management Authority (N.S.W.); From 2011 map sheets published by Land and Property Information, a division of the Department of Finance and Services (N.S.W.); From 2014 map sheets published by Land and Property Information, a division of the Office of Finance and Services (N.S.W.); Department of Information Technology and Management, New South Wales; New South Wales Department of Lands; Land and Property Management Authority; Spatial Services Department of Finance Services and Innovation NSW Government. Some sheets reissued by Land and Property Management Authority, New South Wales; Land Information Centre, New South Wales.

Each sheet has individual title and number. Earlier sheets are topographic map on orthophoto base. Later sheets are two maps on 1 sheet and have orthophoto map on verso. Sheets are colour. Map sheets include monthly and annual rainfall and temperature graphs, legend, text, index to adjoining sheets, grid referencing guide, and locality map. Some sheets have cadastral overprint, key to counties and local government areas showing cadastral and local government information. Some sheets also include climatic features graphs, magnetic declination diagram, and show types of roads, surfaces and ground conditions. Later sheets published from 2014 by Land and Property Information (N.S.W.) and Spatial Services NSW, include the following statements: This map may contain automation induced errors or omissions.; Road and track information displayed in State Forest Areas on this map was supplied by Forests NSW. or Road and track information displayed in State Forest Areas on this map was supplied by Forestry Corporation of NSW.

General:

Geographic coordinates: (E 141°00'00"--E 159°09'00"/S 28°07'30"--S 37°30'00")

Arrangement:

The list is based on National Library of Australia holdings in the Map collection and is updated as map sheets are acquired or deposited. This is subject to publishers schedules.

All map sheets within this series are described in the finding aid.

Access and use

Conditions Governing Use:
Conditions for copying and publishing of this collection may apply, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3040304). The New South Wales Australia 1:25 000 topographic series may be accessed through the Library's Special Collections Reading Room by eCallslip request [https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3040304].
Preferred citation:
Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of map item], New South Wales Australia 1:25 000 topographic map series, National Library of Australia, MAP G8970 s25, [sheet number(s)]'.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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