People

Articles about people who were directly or indirectly associated with Natmap :
(Please refer to the Aviation Support for Natmap section to read about Natmap's aviation associates)

John Abbottsmith (1918-1989).

George Bennett OAM - in McLean, Lawrence William (2019), Frank Johnston, National Mapping Staff Surveyor 1971-1974.

Reginald Llewellyn Bruno Brown, at whose suggestion National Mapping became the Australian Government's civilian mapping agency.

Hugh Powell Gough Clews (1890-1980) - in McLean, Lawrence William (2019), Frank Johnston, National Mapping Staff Surveyor 1971-1974.

Frank Doolan BEM (1896-1988) - in McLean, Lawrence William (2019), Frank Johnston, National Mapping Staff Surveyor 1971-1974.

Gordon John Colin Gibson (1929-2014), and his assistants completed around 500 kilometres of two-way levelling from Pedirka in South Australia to Birdsville in Queensland, which included a 370 kilometre stage across some 1,100 sand hills in the Simpson Desert.

Alan Gordon Gutteridge (1892-1942). The engineering firm Gutteridge Haskins and Davey was one of several photogrammetric services contractors that provided compilation and other services to the Division of National Mapping for the 1:100 000 scale National Topographic Map Series.

The name Martin Hotine (1898-1968) occurs in several instances in accounts of Australian national mapping and its history. While Hotine had no role in the actual mapping of Australia it is his techniques and later status in both war and peace that is recalled in this article by Paul Wise.

Gordon Bertram Lauf (1914-1984), who devised a solution to conformal transformations.

Jennifer Kay Lloyd (1944-2022), wife of long-serving Melbourne-based National Mapping Technical Officer Michael Lloyd.

Gordon Leonard Maxwell, Naval Officer, Hydrographic Surveyor, Photogrammetrist, and Ship Captain

George Thomas McDonald (1835-1915), pioneering surveyor in Victoria and Queensland 1858-circa 1913.

Gerard de Gemor or de Cremer, latinised to Gerhard Mercator (1512-1594) whose projection became adopted for the Australian Map Grid.

Trevor Reginald Nossiter (1906-1992), was the Senior Reconnaissance Officer at the Weapons Research Establishment from 1954 to 1969, during which time he and his section provided much assistance during the early years of Nat Map's geodetic field survey operations.

Jim Thornton-Smith (1899-1974) - in McLean, Lawrence William (2019), Frank Johnston, National Mapping Staff Surveyor 1971-1974.

Larry Wordsworth - in McLean, Lawrence William (2019), Frank Johnston, National Mapping Staff Surveyor 1971-1974.