Mapping and spatial information play a key role in navigating native title.

Applications, Indigenous land use agreements, and determinations of native title are described geographically and mapped, similar to other interests in land and/or water.

Mapping enables people to gain an understanding of where these matters are in relation to other things, such as towns, roads, farms, mining tenements and local government areas.

Together with other information, maps are also used to notify interested parties about native title matters, enabling them to become involved in the process.