Historic Maps

The Historic Map CD set comprises 12 CD's containing PDF images of either the 1st or 2nd edition printed maps from the 1:2 500, 1:10 000, and 1:25 000 standard map series produced by the South Australian Government in the early 1970's and 1980's along with some general interest maps over South Australia.

Click on below links or scroll down page to view brief description of maps provided in this series.

• 1:2 500 & 1:10 000 Standard Series
• 1:25 000 Mapping Series
• General Interest Maps
• Regional Coverage
• Further Information and Contacts

1:2 500 & 1:10 000 Standard Series

This series covered greater metropolitan Adelaide and major country towns and was available as either a:

• Cadastral Map
  Cadastral referring to the spatial representation of the legal land parcel boundaries.

• Topographical Cadastral Map
  Topographic referring to the natural and built features on the land surface plus the cadastral layer.

• Topographical Cadastral Orthophotographic Map
  Orthophotographic referring to a map accurate aerial image plus the Topographic and Cadastral layers.

The type of map produced was dependent on data availability over the area being mapped, and not all map types were printed. Only those maps that were printed have been included on the Historic Map CD set.

If more than one map type was printed the Topographical Cadastral Orthophoto map was the preferred product selected for this CD series.

When both the 1:2 500 Learn more and 1:10 000 Learn more scale maps exist over the same region, and space is available on the CD, both scales of maps have been provided on single CD.

1:25 000 Mapping Series

This series was produced from selected 1:50 000 mapping coverage over Greater Metropolitan Adelaide. The data required for this series was enlarged from 1:50 000 to a scale of 1:25 000 with additional street names and emergency service information added.

General Interest Maps

Several general interest maps have been added to each CD as follows:

• 1 mile to the inch Adelaide 1914
  A topographic map over Adelaide published in 1914 and prepared by the Commonwealth Section, Imperial General Staff compiled from data captured by the Department of Lands and other Public Departments within South Australia.

• 1 mile to the inch Adelaide 1937
  A topographic map over Adelaide published in 1937 and prepared by the Australian Section, Imperial General Staff, compiled from data captured by the Australian Survey Corps and Royal Australian Air Force.

• 1 mile to the inch Regional map mosaic 1937
  A mosaic of 11, 1 Mile to the Inch topographic maps published in 1937 covering an area bounded by Two Wells and Sedan in the North and Victor Harbour and Meningie in the South. All maps were prepared by the Australian Section, Imperial General Staff compiled from data captured by the Australian Survey Corps and Royal Australian Air Force.

• 1:1 500 000 General Reference Map, South Australia (1990)
  Map of South Australia published in 1990 showing major and minor towns, road & rail network, agricultural, forest, vineyard & orchard areas

• 1:1 250 000 Pastoral Map of South Australia (1993)
  Pastoral map of South Australia published in 1993 showing pastoral run names, & boundaries, pastoral lease names & boundaries along with major towns, homesteads road & rail networks.

Regional Coverage

Further Information and Contacts

Please visit our web site http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/mapland** for information on our current mapping and aerial photography products and services or you can contact:

Mapland
Level 1, 100 Pirie Street, Adelaide 5000
Phone: (61 8) 8463 3999
Fax: (61 8) 8463 3900
Email: mapland@saugov.sa.gov.au**

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