Vicmap Topographic 1:30,000 Online

Vicmap Topographic is an initiative of Spatial Information Infrastructure (SII) of the Victorian State Government, Department of Sustainability and Environment, in Australia. It is an automated topographic mapping system that dynamically produces topographic content using the most current and accurate digital information from Victoria’s spatial framework datasets. This digital information depicts standard topographic map features such as roads, contours, rivers, lakes, built-up areas, tree cover, and spot heights.

Vicmap Topographic content can be migrated to a number of outputs, digital and hard copy, multiscale and multisized. The inherent flexibility in this process enables a “one source, many outputs” approach to topographic mapping. The first product produced is Vicmap Topographic 1:30,000 Online. It is an online topographic mapping system that delivers an A4-sized standard topographic map of anywhere in Victoria and is compiled from the most up-to-date Vicmap digital data. Vicmap Topographic 1:30,000-scale maps cover all of Victoria.

Each sheet can be uniquely identified by its tile number and referenced to the existing 1:25,000, 1:50,000, and 1:100,000 index systems. The map series uses Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994 (GDA94) and the Universal Transverse Mercator projection. The 1:30,000-scale A4 maps each cover an area five kilometers east to west and seven kilometers north to south.

Accessed via the Internet, file sizes are small enough to enable immediate download. Delivery is easy—the user simply purchases a selection through the online Vicmap Topographic maps service, accessible from SII’s Land Channel Web site. A PDF file of the purchased map is immediately available for the user, and there is no e-mail delivery involved.

Vicmap Topographic 1:30,000 Online has been recognized as being cutting-edge technology and was awarded the 2004 Urban and Regional Information Systems Association Exemplary System in Government award.