You are currently viewing the Queensland Globe help section. If you need to conduct a search for an address, lot on plan, suburb, or location of interest, please use the search functionality within the Queensland Globe.

Helpful hints


This page will offer an overview of frequently asked questions in relation to Queensland Globe.

Log into an account


Some features within the Queensland Globe will require users to login to an account to make them available for use. If you have an existing account with an accepted provider, this can be used to login to the application.

Click on the Login or Sign Up button to reveal a range of accepted account options.

login

Select a provider option from the icons displayed and enter your credentials to login. Account options include:

Login provider options

If you don't have an existing account, click Sign Up, and create a new account with one of identity providers.

You can confirm that you are logged in by viewing your username in the top right corner button.

You will need to login with your preferred provider account to utilise the following Queensland Globe features:

QGov and LANDS upgrade to Tell Us Once (TUO)


As part of a whole of State Government project, QGov and Lands users will be upgraded to the Tell Us Once (TUO) platform.

When new or existing users log in for the first time after the release on the 22nd January 2024, you’ll be asked for your consent to share your details via the Qld Digital Identify broker.

Simply select the tick box to Consent and scroll down to the bottom of the page to click Continue. For more information about Logging into an account scroll up.

QLD Identity Login

Delete your account


When you delete an account, please note that you delete both the account and any maps you have created.

To delete an account
  1. Firstly, sign into the account.
  2. Rest you mouse on top of your account.
  3. User account

  4. Select Delete account.
  5. Account delete

  6. A confirmation message pops up. You have the option to Cancel and go back to the original screen or select OK to delete the account and all saved maps will be removed.
  7. Account delete confirm

Map legend


On the right side of the interface, we find an arrow that will reveal, or hide the map legend.

The map legend is dynamic and will display the data layers that are currently visible in your map window.

map legend

Show legend in extent only

This option populates the legend based on the features contained within the current extent. This is enabled by selecting the checkbox at the top of the expanded legend panel.

Show legend in extent only

Hide places in legend

If places have been added to the map, the symbology associated with each place is displayed automatically in the legend. This can be hidden by selecting the Hide places in legend checkbox at the top of the expanded legend panel. Deselect the checkbox to view the places in the legend.

Hide places in legend

How to add an icon


You can pin an icon for Queensland Globe to your smartphone home/tablet screen for quick access. So rather than having to open a browser and enter the web address, you can simply click on the Queensland Globe icon on your home screen to open it.

Android

Launch Chrome and type in https://qldglobe.information.qld.gov.au

Tap the menu icon.

Menu

Tap Add to Home Screen you will be able to enter a name for the shortcut.

Adding

Then Chrome will add the shortcut to your home screen. Other popular Android browsers like Firefox for Android also offer this feature.

iPhone & iPad

Launch the Safari browser on Apple's iOS and navigate to the website or web page you want to add to your home screen.

Tap the Share button on the browser's toolbar - that's the rectangle with an arrow pointing upward. It is located on the bar at the top of the screen on an iPad, and on the bar at the bottom of the screen on an iPhone or iPod Touch.

Apple share

Tap the Add to Home Screen icon in the Share menu.

Add shortcut

You'll be prompted to name the shortcut before tapping the Add button.

Add to home screen

The shortcut can be dragged around and placed anywhere, including in app folders - just like a normal app icon.

(To create app folders on iOS, touch-and-drag an app's icon onto another app's icon and hold it there for a moment).

When you tap the icon, it will load the website in a normal tab inside the Safari browser app.

Shortcut

View your land valuation


You can view detailed land valuations data through the Queensland Globe by launching the Land valuations information on Queensland Globe topic.

This topic can be launched from the Topics menu, under the Property & infrastructure category or accessed by using the shared topic link.

  1. Open the expanded topic description by selecting the right pointing arrow button.
  2. This section provides how to find your valuation and the information available.
  3. Click LAUNCH TOPIC to display the topic.
  4. Zoom or search for you area of interest and use the identify tool to view the attributes.

Registered water bore report


  1. Once you are in the Queensland Globe interface, click on the Layers button to open the Layers panel.
  2. Click Add layers from the top of the panel.
  3. add-layers
  4. Type Registered water bores into the filter to search for the layer and hit enter or click on the blue filter icon.
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  6. Turn on the Registered water bores (DRDMW and private) layer to add it as an active layer to the map.
  7. turn-on-reg-water-bores-layer
  8. Zoom or search to the required location.
  9. Select the identify tool and click on Select first item.
  10. Using your preferred identify tool option, select the water bore of interest.
  11. id-reg-water-bore
  12. The Bore report link can be selected from the attributes panel.
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  14. Selecting the link will download the report to your device.
  15. reg-water-bore-example
Please note: You may need to use the forward and back arrows in the black section of the attributes panel to retrieve the relevant information if multiple results are returned from the identify action.

Survey control mark report


  1. Once you are in the Queensland Globe interface, click on the Layers button to open the Layers panel.
  2. Click Add layers from the top of the panel.
  3. add-layers
  4. Type Survey control marks into the filter to search for the layer and hit enter or click on the blue filter icon.
  5. survey-control-marks-filter
  6. Turn on the Survey control marks layer to add it as an active layer to the map.
  7. turn-on-survey-control-marks-layer
  8. Zoom or search to the required location.
  9. Select the identify tool and click on Select first item.
  10. Using your preferred identify tool option, select the survey control mark of interest.
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  12. The survey control mark report link can be selected from the attributes panel.
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  14. Selecting the link will download the report to your device.
  15. survey-mark-example
Please note: You may need to use the forward and back arrows in the black section of the attributes panel to retrieve the relevant information if multiple results are returned from the identify action.

Alert messaging


Alerts that previously appeared on the banner page are now able to be delivered within an active Queensland Globe session, making it easier for users to stay informed.

warning-alert

Users can close the alert when it appears, once closed it will not re-appear in the current session unless a new message has been configured.