AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series provides coverage of the entire continent at a scale of 1:250,000 across 516 standard and 50 special map sheets. Each standard map covers approximately 1.5 degrees longitude by 1 degree latitude, showing natural and constructed features like infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, and contours. The data is provided by Geoscience Australia in PDF format with coordinates in GDA94, GDA2020, and AHD datums using a UTM projection.
Use Cases
- Terrain analysis and elevation modeling based on 50-meter contour intervals.
- Infrastructure and land-use planning based on depicted road, rail, and administrative boundaries.
- Environmental and hydrological studies based on mapped vegetation and hydrography features.
- Creating regional reference maps for fieldwork based on the standardized 1:250,000 scale coverage.
Strengths
- Covers the entire continent of Australia with consistent 1:250,000 scale mapping.
- Comprises 516 standard map sheets, providing systematic national coverage.
- Contains detailed natural and constructed features including contours, infrastructure, and hydrography.
Limitations
- Data is provided only in PDF format, which may require conversion for GIS analysis.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- The map may contain information from surrounding sheets, which could affect boundary precision.
Provenance
- Source
- Geoscience Australia Data
- Collection Method
- Published digital topographic map series.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-25 23:52:15.479052; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Australia