Map Guides, Travel Tips & Reviews

At Mapworld, the World Wall Maps collection and the Australia Wall Maps collection include classroom-ready maps in political, physical, Pacific-centred, road, terrain, National Geographic, Hema, laminated, canvas and large-format editions. Mapworld’s World Maps range includes a large selection of world maps available in paper, laminated, canvas and framed formats, while Mapworld’s broader range includes wall maps, topographic maps, travel maps, globes, atlases and educational geography resources.

From sales territories and delivery zones to logistics, property, planning and regional operations, a large Brisbane wall map is one of the most practical business tools you can put on the wall.

At Mapworld, the Victoria Wall Maps collection includes some of the best Melbourne wall maps for business, including the Melbourne UBD 362, the Melbourne Business 365 UBD, and the Melbourne & Region Hema map in multiple practical sizes — from compact office formats through to Supermap and Mega Map wall displays.

Our Mining and Resources Maps collection is one of the most important ranges on the Mapworld website, bringing together national and state-based resource maps that help companies see the scale, structure and strategic geography of Australia’s mining industry.

For more than 30 years, Mapworld has supplied maps to customers who depend on clear, durable and current geographic information. Among the most important of those customers are Australia’s emergency services — including our close and longstanding relationship with the New South Wales Ambulance Service and the New South Wales Rural Fire Service.

For more than 30 years, Mapworld has maintained close and longstanding links with the Australian Department of Defence, supplying wall maps, topographic maps, international maps, compasses, GPS units and specialist field-ready mapping products to Defence customers around Australia.

For more than 30 years, Mapworld has had close and trusted ties with Australia’s Federal and State Governments, as well as NGOs, embassies, diplomatic missions, education providers, defence organisations and international agencies.

Long before online ordering became the norm, Mapworld was already known as one of Australia’s leading suppliers of wall maps, globes and flags to government and institutional customers.

For businesses operating across Greater Sydney, geography matters every day. Customers are located in suburbs. Deliveries move along road corridors. Sales territories follow boundaries. Field teams cover zones. Property markets shift across districts. Service regions stretch from the coast to the Blue Mountains, from the Northern Beaches to the Macarthur region, from the CBD to the Western Sydney growth corridor.

Whether you need a practical map for trip planning, a classroom teaching map, a business planning tool, or a beautiful Australia map for the wall, the right choice depends on how you want to use it. This guide explains the best Australia wall maps and how to choose between them.

Whether you are planning a coastal passage, preparing for a sailing course, exploring WA inshore waters, cruising internationally or building a proper navigation backup kit, Mapworld’s nautical section is designed for real marine use.

For the modern traveller, headphones are no longer an accessory — they’re armour. Whether you're chasing deadlines or dreams, these are the sanctuaries worth slipping into at 30,000 feet.

The discerning traveller moves through the world with curiosity, not compulsion. When in doubt, pause. Let the world invite you in rather than barging through its doors.

At Mapworld, one of the best globes for children is the Family S Solid Atmosphere Illuminated 30 cm Globe. It is colourful, illustrated, illuminated and designed to make exploring the world fun. With pictures of famous sights and animals placed around the globe, it gives children visual clues that help them connect places with stories, creatures, landmarks and cultures.

How hospital, health-service and Primary Health Network wall maps help planners, clinicians, educators, government teams and service providers see Australia’s healthcare geography clearly.

Why a tactile globe can make geography easier to understand — and why Atmosphere’s illuminated raised-relief globes are among the most engaging globes for homes, offices and classrooms.

For birthdays, milestone anniversaries, retirements, family-history gifts, Father’s Day, Christmas, office gifts and hard-to-buy friends, vintage National Geographic maps offer something rare: a gift with a date, a story and a sense of time.

For schools, libraries, community centres and workplaces, wall maps can be powerful tools for Harmony Day because they make culture, geography and connection visible. A good map helps people see where they come from, where others come from, how places connect, and how Australia sits within the wider world.

At Mapworld, the Art collection brings together artwork that celebrates geography, history and design, available in premium formats such as canvas prints, fine art paper prints and laminated prints. Whether you are decorating a home, office, gallery wall, classroom or choosing a meaningful gift, these prints are made for spaces where detail matters.

At Mapworld, the Historical Wall Maps Collection includes some of the most evocative vintage Australian maps available, with a particularly strong focus on pastoral, gold, stock and regional maps from Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory.

Historical maps remain some of the most compelling wall art you can own. They combine the elegance of cartography with the emotional pull of history. A historical map can be read from across the room as a striking decorative piece — then explored up close as a record of roads, rivers, boundaries, routes, settlements, stations, mountains, campaigns and voyages.

From naval battle scenes and historic wall maps to Van Gogh masterpieces, Monet landscapes, John Singer Sargent portraits and travel scenes, Pissarro city views, Winslow Homer coastal works, Leonardo da Vinci studies, natural history illustrations and celestial prints, the collection brings together pieces that feel both beautiful and meaningful.

A chart is only as good as the information it contains. Notices to Mariners are one of the key ways that charting authorities communicate important updates affecting navigation safety. This guide explains what Notices to Mariners are, why they matter, and how they relate to the charts and navigation tools available through Mapworld.

Whether you are using a NSW Topographic Map, a Queensland QTopo map, or one of the new AUSTopo 1:250,000 maps, understanding GDA2020 helps explain how modern Australian mapping works — and why newer maps are better aligned with today’s satellite positioning systems.

Learning how to take a bearing is one of the most important outdoor navigation skills you can develop. Whether you are bushwalking, hiking, orienteering, leading a school group, working in the field, or travelling through remote country, a compass bearing allows you to move with purpose rather than simply hoping the track continues in the right direction.