EXPLORE QUEENSLAND WITH DIGITAL MAPPING

Exploring the South East and other coastal regions this holiday season is made easy with the Queensland Government’s digital mapping products.

Minister for Natural Resources and Water Craig Wallace said Sunmap Raster CD products offered digital topographic images of natural features, rivers, roads, tracks and man-made structures.

“Sunmap Raster provides an exciting and easy way of viewing all of Queensland’s available 1:25 000 scale topographic line maps and helps adventurers to explore the countryside,” Mr Wallace said.

“It allows users to search by reference map, place name, coordinates, map name or number.

“Sunmap Raster is compatible with the existing Natmap Raster products and is available in two forms – Sunmap Raster Mapsheets and Sunmap Raster Mosaic.

“The mapsheets are digital images of hard copy line map products, where each map can be viewed as a separate image.

“The mosaic is viewed as three seamless images created by joining the map content from individual mapsheets.

“Both of these products are compatible with GPS software,” Mr Wallace said.

Other product features include the ability to access climate graphs, print entire maps or custom views, as well as export maps into JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF and GeoTIFF formats.

The Sunmap Raster is available from the Department of Natural Resources and Water service centres. For your nearest service centre contact 1800 803 788 or visit www.nrw.qld.gov.au

Media inquiries: Caroline Kaurila, Craig Wallace’s office, on 3896 3694 or 0414 213 954.