Overview
Welcome to the LandView User Manual.  The LandView web mapping tool has been developed to provide easy access to mapping and related information in New South Wales.  Initially, we have provided information covering the Greater Sydney Metropolitan Region. Note that LandView can be configured in a number of different ways.  Not all functions described below may be available to the particular version of LandView you are using.

This series of pages has been developed to help you understand what information is available and how to get to that information.  Specifically, it provides detailed instructions on using LandView, the web-based query tool which is the central application of the web site.  LandView provides a way of viewing many different themes of spatial (map) data and, where available, of querying attribute information associated with the map data.  Results of attribute queries can be displayed graphically on the map which can then be printed.  LandView can also print a table of attribute results.

Use this page as the starting point for browsing information about LandView - what it can and can't do, what you need to be able to run it, how to use it and what to do once you've found the information you were after.

Application overview
LandView allows you to display and query spatial information in New South Wales.  Currently, it covers the Greater Sydney Metropolitan area (from Port Stephens in the north to Kiama in the south and West past Bathurst).

LandView supports a wide range of data sources and types as Themes.  You can select themes, display them in different order and turn individual themes on and off.

You can change the map display by zooming in and out and by panning across the area, by adding and removing layers of information and even by making some layers transparent to data underneath.  The application provides you feedback about your current scale and the location in several formats.  You can also measure distances between points and view background information on each map theme.

You can print the map or the table of properties found and you can save the alphanumeric data to a file that can be incorporated into products such as Microsoft Excel or Access.

Choose from one of the subjects to begin your familiarisation.  We have provided a series of links on the panel to the left which will take you directly to areas of the site.  You can click these at any time to browse directly to a particular subject.