CARTOGRAPHY LIBRARY, GIS MAPPING AND MAP COLLECTION
Chief Cartographer:
John E. Roberts, Peter R. Johnson
Equipment:
Cartography Section presently provides mapping and basic GIS with the following PC (IBM) equipment: (Value $60,000+)
| 3 | only 486/33, 8mb ram, 180 mb HD, CDROM, 18"x12" digitiser |
| 2 | only Pentium 120, 32mb ram, 1 GB HD, CDROM, 120mb Tape Drive, 18"x12" digitiser |
| 2 | only Pentium 133, 32mb ram, 1 GB HD, CDROM, T1000 Tape Drive, 18"x12" digitiser |
| 1 | only HP 4M/P Postscript monochrome A4 printer (600dpi) |
| 1 | only Tektronics Phaser 200E Colour A4 printer (300dpi) |
| 1 | only A4 Avtek Colour/ Mono Scanner |
GIS and MAPPING LABORATORY (Value $175,000):
| 1 | only PC Workstation/Server Intergraph TD400, dual 200 mhz, 128mb ram, 2 GB HD, CDRom, G95 Video card with 6mb WRAM G95, Win NT, DT and 2 only 21" Multi-Sync Monitor |
| 1 | only 4Gb External HD 14GB 8mm XL external backup cartridge |
| 1 | only HP Designjet 750 CM AO plotter |
| 1 | only Tektronics 550 FX Colour Laser A4 and mono (1200 dpi) |
| 10 | only 18"x12" Summagraphics digitisers |
| 1 | only AO Summagraphics digitiser and stand |
| 11 | network 10 Base-T NE200 ACCTON 100mb |
| 1 | only Catalyst with 18 ports Cable & connectors |
| 10 | 10 Pentium166 PC’s 32 mb ram, 1.3GB HD, Dual VGA Screens, Tseng ET4000 2mb &2 MGA Millenium 2mb Wram Video cards, CDROM 8 speed,31/2" FDD, 2- 15" Phillips Monitors, Mini Towers, Honeywell keyboard, Soundblaster and Speakers,MS DOS 6.22 |
The software used is as follows (2-20 licenses):
Mirage (DOS)
Microstation 5 (DOS)
MS Windows NT
MS Windows 3.1
MS Dos
Microstation 95 (Win NT)
MapInfo 4.0 (Windows 3.1)
MapInfo 4.5 (Win NT)
CData91 ( " )
PageMaker ( " )
Idrisi ( " ) & DOS
Idrisi 2.0 (Win NT)
Surfer (Windows 3.1)
Micosoft Office (Win NT)
Photoshop ( " )
Freehand ( " )
Illustrator ( " )
Word 6 ( " )
Scanners ( " )
HiJaak (Windows)
Transverter Pro (Windows)
Corel Draw 7.0 (WinNT)
GIS MAPPING LABORATORY
8 only GIS Office
MGE Basic Nucleus, MGE Basic Administrator,
MGE Base Mapper, MGE Analyst, MGE Base
Imager, MGE Map Finisher, Microstation,
RIS Oracle Data Servers, MFR Clean, MFR Clean
3D, MRF Flag Editor
1 only GeoTransform 3.09
2 only Image Translators
2 only MGE Advanced Imager
2 only MGE Grid Analyst
2 only MGE Terain Analyst
11 only InterPlot IPLOT Client
1 only Interplot IPLOT Server
1 only Interplot Driver Pack
2 only Microstation I/RAS B
2 only Intergraph Raster Classification
2 only ERMA Data Manager
2 only ERMA Site Geologist
2 only Groundwater Modeler
2 only Voxel Analyst
3 only Mapping Office-B
Microstation 95, IRASB, IRASC,
IGEOVEC
17 Microstation95
1 only Cdata96 Upgrade from Cdata91
10 Windows NT Educ Lic.
1 MS Winows Server Lic.
20 MS Dos 6.22 Lic.
Computer desks, Layout & light tables etc.
MAP COLLECTION (Value $1.5 million):
Approximately 80,000 maps hung vertically
in the MULTIPLAN filing system. Visual index system using the Bogg & Lewis cataloguing
system. Maps were last catalogued in 1978 in printed book form. It is valued at $1,5
million.
The catalogued needs to be computerised in a database from manual records. Since 1980,
complimentary maps have not been received from Australian government mapping
organisations. The University and the Division have not provided any funds for the
acquisition of mapping products since this time and therefore the map collection is very
much out of date.
Users are academics from within the University plus some private people and organisations
as well as student groups from Geography, Geology, Anthropology, Engineering,
Architecture, Agriculture, Marine Sciences, Soil Sciences, History and Ocean Sciences.
Both Peter Johnson and myself answer enquires and both file maps as well as minor repairs
when absolutely necessary. The amount of time in the Map Collection amounts to 5%-10% of
each of our time, we have at least 3 - 6 visitors each day.
John E. Roberts J.P., FMSIA
Chief Cartographer/Map Custodian
26/8/97