Selected digital and online resources

Links to selected internet sites which give map and / or other spatial information; including digital data. A number of the sites noted here (both in government and private sectors) make their products (maps, data, etc) available for sale; many provide free services. Please check their websites for further details.

• Australian online atlases and datasets
• Gazettteers
  • Australian
  • Non-Australian
• Search engines, portals and directories
  • Australian
  • Non-Australian
• Reference / information sites

Australian online atlases and datasets

• Australian Antarctic Data Centre
• Australian Atlas of minerals resources, mines and processing centres
• Australian Natural Resources Atlas
• Northern Territory Atlas and Spatial Data Directory Northern Territory Node of the Australian Coastal Atlas.
• NSW Natural Resources Atlas
• Queensland Coastal Atlas Queensland Node of the Australian Coastal Atlas
• South Australia Atlas
• Tasmanian Coastal Atlas
• Land Channel Interactive Map, Victoria
• Western Australian Atlas
• Australian Datasets from Geoscience Australia, National mapping Division (formerly AUSLIG); for use in Geographic Information Systems [GIS], Computer Aided Design [CAD] or Image Processing Systems.
• ASDD Australian Spatial Data Directory

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Gazetteers

Australian

• Canberra, "Origins and meaninings of Canberra's suburb and street names", ACT, Planning and Land Authority
• Geographical Names Register, (name search) Geographical Names Board of NSW
• Maritime Gazetteer of Australia (MGA)
• Name and Places in Western Australia, Department of Land Information
• Northern Territory Place Names Register, Northern Territory Department of Planning and Infrastructure
• Place name search - gazetteer of Australian place names.
• Place Names Online Search, Queensland Natural Resources and Mines
• South Australia State Gazetteer, SA Environment and Geographic Information
• Vicnames Victorian Geographic Place Names

Non-Australian

• Administrative divisions of countries ("Statoids"), maintained by Gwillim Law
• Gazetteer of British Place Names, Association of British Counties
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
• GNIS - USGS Mapping Information: Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). Links to U.S. domestic names, foreign names, Antarctic names and undersea features.
• New Zealand Geographic Place-names Database
• Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, International Astronomical Union

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Search engines, portals and directories

Australian

• AusDIN Australian disaster information network. Portal to link the information of state, territory and federal government disaster management agencies.
• Australian Spatial Data Directory (ASDD)

Non-Australian

• Federal Geographic Data Committee Clearinghouse (FGDC) - for digital geospatial data worldwide.
• Geo Community Search Engine

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Reference / information sites

• Oddens' bookmarks Roelof P. Oddens, perhaps the most extensive and comprehensive site for map and related information. Very highly recommended.
• GDA Geocentric Datum of Australia, Geoscience Australia.
• Global Change Master Directory NASA. Earth Science Data including oceanographic, landsurface and climate information.
• ICA Commission Map Projections - International Cartographic Association
• Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM) Australian intergovernmental site giving information about GDA (including National Transformation Grids from AGD66 & AGD84 to GDA94 ), cadastral data, native title, geodesy, etc.
• NGS - National Geographic Online
• Tourism Offices worldwide directory
• United Nations Home Page
• World Factbook CIA

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