Old Australia maps
The following old maps are particularly useful for mapping Australia
See out-of-copyright maps for general guidelines
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NSW
Historical maps available online at the National Library and State Library of NSW [1] can be useful for street names
- State Library Database [2]
NSW Parish Maps
Where to find them / How to use
You can find NSW parish maps at http://parishmaps.lands.nsw.gov.au/pmap.html
I (User:Aharvey) have made avaliable an index of all (to the best of my knowledge) maps from that site Municipality Parish Pastor (code used to scrape these lists here).
If you just want the JPGs for the public domain maps, I (User:Aharvey) could probably upload them somewhere (possibly even wikimedia.org) if these are easier to use. I plan to georeference as many as I can when I get the time and have found a sutiable workflow to do this.
Justification for out-of-copyright
Parish maps are "material made, or firsh published, by a Commonwealth, State or Territory". They are (for the sake of the information sheet linked at the end of this page) Artistic works, so their copyright expires 50 years after making. Most of the parish maps are dated, however they also have a lot of annotations added after the original date of map creation, so you probably shouldn't use these annotations unless the Parish map was "cancelled" at least 50 years ago.
How to tag this as the source
I (User:Aharvey) have been using source_ref(:*)?=http://parishmaps.lands.nsw.gov.au/mrsid/image_sid.pl?client=pmap&image=$cd_title/$image_id.sid to identify which specific map was used.
WA
- Perth maps at [3] are now claimed to be copyrighted 2008.
ACT
- [4] gives a sample of original Canberra maps.
Victoria
- MMBW sewerage maps [5]
SA
- 1942 street map.
Collectors
Usage
- How to record the source of the name?
- highway=primary
- source=Yahoo!
- name=High Street
- source:name=DOL 1917
- source_ref:name=GPS:http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/online/maps.cfm
where DOL 1917 = NSW Department of Land Municipality Maps 1917
How to determine if a map is out-of-copyright in Australia
According to the fact sheet at http://www.copyright.org.au/g023.pdf
Maps which are produced by the government, assuming maps are classified under the "Artistic works" category on the fact sheet have their copyright expire 50 years after the work was created, regardless if or when it was first published.
