Welcome to XNATMAP

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• National Mapping's Major Programs & Related : enables direct access to the information on the listed topics.
• Australian Primary Data Acquisition Progress Maps for Topographic Mapping 1827-1988 : while there were various maps showing a south land from antiquity and the later navigator/explorers, these maps were mostly of coastline. Some forty years after the First Fleet arrived, in 1827 then Major (later Sir) Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (1792-1855) as Surveyor General saw the first systematic surveying and mapping of Australia. After that, settlement drove the need for mapping. An accumulation of information on Australian primary data acquisition for topographic mapping, gathered and standardised, is presented.
• National Mapping's Map Series and Other Products : 1950s to 1990s.



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• Map Series and associated Map Sheet Identification.
• National Mapping's Indexing Systems : Aerial Photography, Survey and Mapping Control, Terrain Profiles and Map Publication Materials.
• Available National Mapping Technical Reports and Special Publications.
• Resources page.



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The XNATMAP website is archived in perpetuity under the PANDORA initiative of the National Library of Australia and associated State Libraries. Commenced in 1996, Pandora (Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources of Australia) is Australia's web archive; a growing collection of Australian online publications.


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Cultural Advice : This website contains the images of deceased Aboriginal persons. Please exercise care when viewing the content.

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