516 maps covering the entire continent of Australia at a scale of 1:250,000, where 1 cm represents 2.5 km on the ground. Geoscience Australia Data produced this series, which shows natural and constructed features including road and rail infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, and 50-meter contours. The data was last updated on 2026-03-25.
Use Cases
- Route planning and infrastructure analysis based on road and rail network data.
- Terrain modeling and elevation analysis based on contour lines at 50-meter intervals.
- Land cover and environmental studies based on vegetation and hydrography features.
- Creating regional reference maps based on combined standard and special map sheet areas.
Strengths
- Covers the entire continent of Australia with 516 standardized map sheets.
- Provides topographic detail at a scale of 1:250,000, the largest scale for full continental coverage.
- Includes multiple coordinate datums (GDA94, GDA2020) and uses the UTM 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 geospatial analysis.
Provenance
- Source
- Geoscience Australia Data
- Collection Method
- Published digital map series derived from topographic survey and compilation.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-25 23:32:10.797318; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Australia