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Mapdat: a program for plotting spatial data from a relational database onto maps

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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MAPDAT is a program for plotting spatial data held in the ORACLE relational database onto any map within the Australian region at any scale. MAPDAT also includes a system for defining geological structures, thus any geological structure can be stored in the database and plotted. The program enables the plotting of sample locations along with infomration specific to each location. The information can be displayed beside each point or in a list to the side of the map. The symbols can be sized proportionally to the value of a column in a table or a SQL expression. Town locations, survey paths, gridlines, survey areas, coastlines and other geographical lines can be plotted.
The program does not compete with geographical information systems but fills a niche at a much lower level of complexity. As a result of its simplicity a minimum in setting up of data is required and using the program is very straight forward with the user always aware of the database operations being performed.

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Title Mapdat: a program for plotting spatial data from a relational database onto maps
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/95a93f34-c7ec-4038-9157-acbe1985bd6c
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 20/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage Australia
Data Portal Geoscience Australia

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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Mapdat: a program for plotting spatial data from a relational database onto maps". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/mapdat-a-program-for-plotting-spatial-data-from-a-relational-database-onto-maps