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Subject: Australia, Papua New Guinea imperial-scale topos

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Subject: [ANZMapS] Australia, Papua New Guinea imperial-scale topos
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 00:19:08 +0000
From: Brendan Whyte <[log in to unmask]>
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The National Library is in the process of cataloguing and digitising its
Imperial-scale topographic series of Australia and PNG.

These series were mainly produced during WW2.

We are cataloguing the sheets individually, and attaching scans of the
maps to these records. All individual records are also linked via a
two-way hyperlink to a parent series-level record with a graphic index
attached.
Thus from the parent record you can click the link to get a list of all
the individual records.
and from the individual record, you can click the link to get the parent
record and index.

Progress to date:

Australia
***********
8 miles to 1 inch.
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- Rapid WW2-era mapping of unsettled areas: outback WA, SA, all of NT,
and Cape York in Qld.
- All sheets catalogued individually.
- All sheets except one scanned and attached to records (multiple states
of some sheets)
- 2-way link to Series record with index.
- Series record http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1657707
- Individual records (alphabetic order)
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=my_parent%3A%22(AuCNL)16
57707%22&iknowwhatimean=1&sort=sort_title_asc&page=1


4 miles to 1 inch
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- Only some individually catalogued. With several editions/states of
some sheets (war-era, provisional, R501,... editions), ensuring proper
bibliographic control will take some time.
- series record with attached index
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4781846


2 miles to 1 inch.
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- 8 sheets known to exist.
- We have catalogued and digitised 6. 5 of these are simply reductions
of 1" maps, so the text and detail is very fine. In contrast the Lake
Colac sheet was produced directly at 2 mile scale
- All sheets catalogued individually.
- All sheets except one scanned and attached to records.
- 2-way link to Series record with index.
- Series record http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4970017
- Individual records (alphabetic order)
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=my_parent%3A%22(AuCNL)49
70017%22&iknowwhatimean=1&sort=sort_title_asc&page=1

WE ARE INTERESTED TO KNOW OF ANY OTHER SHEETS IN THIS SERIES

(we also have a second 2-mile series, field sheets used in the
compilation of the 1:253,440 series. There are 4 quarter fieldsheets per
253k sheet.
We have only 8 of these, covering all of two 253k sheet areas in central
SA (Coober Pedy and billa Kalina). They have also been catalogued and
scanned.
series record  http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4969893
individual records
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=my_parent%3A%22(AuCNL)49
69893%22&iknowwhatimean=1&sort=sort_title_asc&page=1

WE ARE INTERESTED TO KNOW OF ANY OTHER SHEETS IN THIS SERIES TOO.

1 mile to 1 inch.
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-Series begun 1910s, but main effort was for the settled areas of
Australia in 1940s
-A for the 4-mile series, only some are individually catalogued at
present. With several editions/states of some sheets ensuring proper
bibliographic control will take some time.
- some older individual records, without scans, are at
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=map+g8960+s63&type=all&l
imit%5B%5D=&sort=sort_title_asc&page=5

PNG
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4 miles to 1 inch
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- All sheets catalogued individually.
- Awaiting scanning
- 2-way link to Series record with index.
- Series record (there are 3: PNG mainland, New Britain & Bougainville,
due to different units creating the maps. The New Britain maps were
US-produced. The same overall index is attached to each series record,
but each record only links to own individual sheets.)

Bougainville series  http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1481196
              individual
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=my_parent%3A%22(AuCNL)14
81196%22&iknowwhatimean=1&sort=sort_title_asc&page=1

New Britain series http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1417021
              individual
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=my_parent%3A%22(AuCNL)14
17021%22&iknowwhatimean=1&sort=sort_title_asc&page=1

PNG mainland & New Ireland  series
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1475962
              individual
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=my_parent%3A%22(AuCNL)14
75962%22&iknowwhatimean=1&sort=sort_title_asc&page=1


1 mile to 1 inch
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- All sheets catalogued individually.
- About half the sheets now scanned and attached to records.
- 2-way link to Series record with index.

Series record http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2998521
Individual records (alphabeitc order)
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=my_parent%3A%22(AuCNL)29
98521%22&iknowwhatimean=1&sort=sort_title_asc&page=1

note: includes the Kokoda sheet at
http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/5057389

- an earlier provisional WW2 series of 1-inch maps (mainly black and
white, sheet size half that of the later series above) is currently
undergoing cataloguing.
-the northern coast of New Guinea was mapped by the US  in half sheets
and will be eventually be catalogued/indexed too.

Comments/suggestions/criticisms, and donations of any sheets we don't
have, are very welcome.

Dr Brendan Whyte
Assistant Map Curator, Map Section
National Library of Australia
Parkes ACT 2600
AUSTRALIA