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General articles related to National Mapping
Diverse articles on mapping
Infoministrative items like the Staff List, Instructions, Field Guide, Commonwealth Licence holders etc.
Conference of the Director of Commonwealth Lands and Surveys, the Surveyor-General and the Government Astronomer of New Zealand, and the Surveyors-General of the States of the Commonwealth of Australia; Melbourne, 20th to 25th May, 1912 - complete with maps.
Conference on National Survey and Mapping of Australia, Commonwealth Survey Committee and State Surveyors-General; Canberra, 15th to 19th January, 1945.
Constructive Opinions and Advice upon the Functions and Program of the Royal Australian Survey Corps, and on the Task of Coordinating all Aspects of National Development by Major-General Reginald Llewellyn Brown, Director-General Ordnance Survey of Great Britain, 1951.
Review of Australia's Topographic Mapping Services by Jack E Richardson, 1986.
The National Mapping Council of Australia (NMC) and the Division of National Mapping (Natmap)
Mapping Conferences 2006 & 2011
Editions of the National Mapping News
- The technology of Electronic Distance Measuring (EDM) was a major factor in the successful completion of Australia's national survey and mapping programs. Terrestrial and later airborne EDM systems evolved from World War Two radar developments and were at the forefront of surveying technology until the advent of satellite-based surveying and navigation technology in the 1970s. This paper Airborne Electronic Distance Measuring : A Brief History seeks to catalogue the major airborne distance measuring systems that were developed during the twentieth century, with the focus on the history and use of airborne EDM used in, or associated with, the surveying and mapping of Australia.
- Australian Longitudes by WIRE and WIRELESS describes how time information transmitted using the technologies of telegraph and then broadcast assisted in the accurate determination of longitude in Australia.
- Fifty years ago an insignificant rocky outcrop in the Northern Territory became the first calculated origin and centre of Australia. This location was then marked by a specially constructed rock cairn in which was set a bronze plaque indicating that this point was the Johnston Geodetic Station, also sometimes called the Johnston Origin. This article explains the importance of this point in Australia's survey and mapping history.
- In May 1954, the National Mapping Office of the then Department of the Interior took delivery of a Model NASM-1 Geodimeter that had been purchased from the Swedish AGA company. Hitherto an unknown technology, the NASM-1 Geodimeter was not only the first commercially available Electronic Distance Measuring (EDM) instrument but also the first such instrument to be used in Australia. This article looks at the introduction of EDM to Australia and its subsequent use by National Mapping.
- From Reg Ford's "Geodetic Survey of Australia" paper, and documents provided in part by Des Young and Peter Langhorne this paper RECONNAISSANCE AND TRACK MAKING FOR DESERT ACCESS FOR THE GEODETIC SURVEY OF AUSTRALIA, reveals Natmap's role in opening up the Western and Tanami deserts in the 1960s.
- With digital maps the idea of discrete map sheets has almost disappeared. Nevertheless, if one still wants a paper map of an area a map name and identifier will be required. The history behind Australian map series and their associated map sheet identification is described in this article.
- MOORKAIE and Related Trigonometrical Points 60 Years On reveals that while Moorkaie, Nat Map's first cairn over a ground mark built in 1954, still exists some surrounding cairns have been replaced. The original end points of the 1954 Nat Map base line for this section of the geodetic survey of Australia appear to have also been upgraded and monumented by the relevant New South Wales state authority.
- Papers by Natmappers or about Natmap equipment or techniques in University of New South Wales (UNSW) :
Report on Colloquium Control for Mapping by Geodetic and Photogrammetric Methods (Ed. P.V. Angus-Leppan) held at the University of New South Wales, 22-24 May, 1967.
Conference on Refraction Effects
in Geodesy and Conference on Electronic Distance Measurement (REF-EDM), UNSW
Proceedings of Symposium on Earth's Gravitational Field and Secular Variations in Position, The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, 26-30 November 1973.
Surveying with GPS, by RW King, EG Masters, C
Rizos, A Stolz, J Collins, 1985.
- Bruce Philip Lambert, the third and longest serving Director of National Mapping (1951-1977), wrote numerous papers during this time; the more significant are presented here.
BPL's formal biography is available here and a photo of Bruce being presented with his 1988 certificate by members of the Institution of Surveyors is here.
- Con Veenstra (Director Natmap 1982-1987) also presented numerous papers and represented both Natmap and Australia at various meetings and conferences as listed here.
- Brian Sturman and Alan Wright's 2008 paper The History of Tellurometer in words and pictures.
- In the preface to his 1983 monograph Geodetic Surveying, former University of New South Wales Professor Arthur
Harry William Bill Kearsley, stated that it had been written to give…an insight into the reasons for, and problems associated with, geodetic surveying [and used] the Australian experience to amplify the text. As such it is considered a useful addition to the site as draws on National Mapping’s survey and mapping functions in fulfilling its national mapping role. Originally accessed at : http://www.sage.unsw.edu.au/about/school_pubs/pdfmono/mono8.pdf.
- The Map Makers : Natmap from another perspective
- Geodetic Surveys through the Sandridges by H.A. Johnson.
- GREAT SANDY DESERT AND CANNING BASIN W.A. - GOING AND GENERAL INFORMATION SUPPLIED TO WAPET in 1963, by H.A. Johnson
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