Cartographic Library Collection

The cartographic collection of the Doc Fisher Geoscience Library consists of the maps and air photos created or acquired by agency staff since the formation of BMR in 1946. This includes maps produced by agencies which have merged with these over the years, such as AUSLIG. Maps held include: Australian geological map series (1:250,000, 1:100,000 and the 1 mile series); topographic maps produced by NATMAP and its predecessors (1:250,000, 1:100,000 and 1:50,000) - latest editions only; various Australian geochemical, geophysical and other thematic maps; geoscience map series from other countries acquired on an exchange basis, including some with accompanying explanatory notes; Non-series maps acquired by donation or exchange; atlases. The Air photos are predominantly those used for mapping Australia and, to a lesser extent, Papua New Guinea and Antarctica, by BMR/AGSO from the 1940s to the 1980s. Geographical coverage of the sets is not complete, but many individual photos are unique in that they have pin points, overlays or other markings made by teams in the field. The Papua New Guinea photographs in the collection may, in many cases, be the only existing copies. Flight diagrams are also held for many (but not all) sets of air photos. Some other related materials, such as montages of aerial photographs (orthophotos), are also represented in the collection.

Simple

Identification info

Date (Publication)
1946-01-01T00:00:00
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/74594

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Author

Geoscience Australia

 1
Author

Nelson, C.

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Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Custodian

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Ryder, A.

 Office of the Chief Scts Internal Contact
Resource provider

Office of the Chief Scientist

 External Contact
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

N
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E
W


Maintenance and update frequency
Continual
Keywords

  • Resource

Theme

  • geology

Theme

  • topography

Theme

  • geochemistry

Theme

  • mapping

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)

  • Earth Sciences

Keywords

  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
OnLine resource

Related Product

Visit the GA Library

Distribution format

  • html

Resource lineage

Statement

Maps and approximately 70% of Australian air photos have records on the Library catalogue. Metadata for all Australian air photos is also held on a delimited database file in the intbin\library folder of the Mudpit. This is used by an in-house catalogue located on the Library's intranet page. PNG air hoto data is held on Excel spreadsheets stored in TRIM.

Hierarchy level
Non geographic dataset
Other

Resource

Description

Consists of deposited copies of maps and cartographic materials created by the agency and its predecessors or acquired from other agencies or countries on an exchange basic or donation.

Extent

N
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E
W


Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/c7f99c7f-0eab-52ac-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Ryder, A.

 Office of the Chief Scts Internal Contact

Type of resource

Resource scope
Non geographic dataset
Name

nonGeographicDataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/74594

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/c7f99c7f-0eab-52ac-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Date info (Revision)
2018-04-22T08:15:21
Date info (Creation)
2012-08-24T00:00:00

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier
https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

Spatial extent

N
S
E
W


Keywords

geochemistry geology mapping topography

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