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Natmap's Physical and Administrative Locations

  • During National Mapping's lifetime its staff were accommodated in many buildings and Natmap administered by many Federal Departments."Natmap's Physical and Administrative Locations" attempts to record all these deatils.
  • Natmap’s first Melbourne home Heritage Listed - a look inside Gregory Hall.
  • From 1959 until 1977, the Melbourne Office of the Commonwealth's primary topographic mapping agency, the Division of National Mapping (Natmap), occupied office space in the Rialto Building at 497 Collins Street Melbourne. The major Natmap activities undertaken from the Rialto were national surveying and mapping programs covering Australia and its island Territories, Australian Antarctic Territory and the then Australian Territory of Papua and New Guinea. During the 1970s, when Natmap's Rialto activities had peak staffing of around 150 people, these surveyors, technicians, photogrammetrists, draftsmen and clerks were mostly accommodated on the First and Second Floors of the Rialto. Prepared for the Heritage Group of the Surveying & Spatial Sciences Institute (SSSI) this overview of Natmap's achievements whilst at the Rialto, now forms a valuable record.