Barrow Creek SF53-06: 1:250,000 Scale Digital Topographic Map of Australia

AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series provides coverage of the entire continent at a scale of 1:250,000 across 516 standard map sheets. Each standard sheet covers approximately 1.5 degrees longitude by 1 degree latitude, showing natural and constructed features like infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, and 50-meter contours. The data is produced by Geoscience Australia and is available as a digital PDF download.

Use Cases

• Terrain analysis and elevation modeling based on 50-meter contour intervals.
• Infrastructure planning and routing based on road and rail network data.
• Environmental and land-use studies based on vegetation and hydrography features.
• Creating base maps for regional GIS projects based on standardized 1:250,000 scale coverage.

Strengths

• Covers the entire continent of Australia with 516 map sheets, providing national consistency.
• Largest scale (1:250,000) at which published topographic maps cover the entire continent.
• Contains multiple coordinate datums (GDA94, GDA2020) and uses the Universal Transverse Mercator projection.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is provided in PDF format, which may require conversion for direct use in GIS software.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale automated analysis.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Published digital topographic mapping series.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03 26 00:29:31.170131; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia, specifically the Barrow Creek area (SF53-06 sheet).