Map Guides, Travel Tips & Reviews

For interior designers and decorators seeking artwork with scale, history and a genuine sense of place, Mapworld offers one of Australia’s most extensive collections of wall maps, historical cartography, vintage travel posters, maritime charts and fine-art reproductions—professionally printed on demand in Australia.

Professional hot lamination is not simply a matter of feeding paper through a machine. It is a skilled finishing process in which heat, pressure, speed, film tension, paper, ink and operator judgement must work together perfectly.

Postcodes, suburbs and Local Government Areas divide Australia in three very different ways. Choosing the right wall map depends on whether you are organising deliveries, understanding neighbourhoods or working with council jurisdictions.

Hema and Westprint are two of Australia’s most respected names in outback mapping—but they approach the country from different directions. Hema is strongest as a broad touring and regional mapping system, while Westprint excels at detailed, route-specific maps enriched with history, practical notes and remote-area context.

The correct AUS nautical chart is not simply the chart showing your destination. It must provide continuous coverage of the entire passage at the scale required for safe planning, coastal navigation, approaches and harbour entry.

Contour lines, road classifications, watercourses, buildings, boundaries and tiny pictorial symbols turn a topographic map into a detailed language of the Australian landscape. Once you understand that language, the map becomes far easier to read, plan from and trust.

Australia is covered by thousands of individual topographic map sheets. Finding the correct one becomes much easier once you know the location, the scale you need and how to use a topographic map index.

Choosing the right wall-map size is not simply a matter of buying the largest map available. The best size depends on the wall, the room, the viewing distance and whether the map will be used for decoration, education or detailed planning.

For more than 30 years, Mapworld has supported the Royal Flying Doctor Service with maps, navigation equipment, practical training and technical assistance—helping teams understand, plan for and travel across some of the most remote country in Australia.

For more than 30 years, Mapworld has supported schools, government departments, public institutions, community organisations, historians and remote-area workers with Indigenous Australia wall maps, Australian-made Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags, formal display sets, bunting and practical navigation training.

For more than 30 years, Mapworld has worked with travel agencies, tour designers, airlines, cruise specialists and premium passenger lounges, supplying the maps and globes that help turn destinations into journeys.

The new AUSTopo 1:250,000 map series brings authoritative, updated topographic coverage of the entire Australian continent into a modern national collection — now available from Mapworld in paper, laminated and waterproof formats.

A world wall map is one of the simplest ways to bring scale, curiosity, beauty and conversation into a home. Whether you want a Pacific-centred map for an Australian perspective, a blue-ocean political map, an antique-style statement piece, a contemporary design or a children’s world map, Mapworld has a world map to suit the room.

For more than 30 years, Mapworld has supplied wall maps, globes and flags to film and television productions, helping create the believable rooms, offices, sets and backdrops where stories come to life.

For more than 30 years, Mapworld has helped Australian schools teach geography, history, civics, global awareness, Indigenous studies, environmental understanding and national identity through large-format educational maps.

From Hobart and Launceston to the wild west coast, the central highlands, national parks, road touring routes, islands and remote regional communities, a large Tasmania wall map is one of the clearest ways to understand Australia’s island state.

From Darwin and the Top End to Kakadu, Arnhem Land, the Barkly Tableland, Alice Springs, Central Australia and the Red Centre, a large Northern Territory wall map is one of the best ways to understand one of Australia’s most vast and remarkable regions.

From Adelaide and the Barossa to the Flinders Ranges, Eyre Peninsula, Yorke Peninsula, the Murraylands, the Limestone Coast and the vast outback north, a large South Australia wall map is one of the clearest ways to understand one of Australia’s most distinctive states.

From Perth and the South West to the Pilbara, Kimberley, Goldfields, Nullarbor and the remote northern coast, a large Western Australia wall map is one of the clearest ways to understand Australia’s largest and most remote state.

From Brisbane and the Gold Coast to Cape York, the Gulf, the outback, the Great Barrier Reef and the tropical north, a large Queensland wall map is one of the best ways to understand Australia’s most diverse mainland state.

From Melbourne and Geelong to the High Country, Gippsland, the Great Ocean Road and the Murray, a large Victoria wall map is one of the most useful ways to understand Australia’s most compact but intensely varied mainland state.

From statewide planning and logistics to education, travel, regional operations and office display, a large New South Wales wall map is one of the most useful reference tools you can put on the wall.

From large wall maps in operations centres to topographic maps used in live and cold case investigations, and from city and regional wall maps to nautical charts for coastal and harbour operations, Mapworld has long been a trusted supplier to police customers who need reliable, practical and clearly printed mapping.

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