516 digital maps from the AUSTopo series cover the entire continent of Australia at a scale of 1:250,000, the largest scale for full continental coverage. Each standard map sheet covers approximately 1.5 degrees longitude by 1 degree latitude, showing natural and constructed features like roads, vegetation, and contours. Geoscience Australia Data provides these maps in PDF format with coordinates in GDA94/GDA2020 datum and UTM projection.
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 regional base maps for GIS projects based on standardized sheet coverage
Strengths
- Covers the entire continent of Australia with 516 map sheets
- Provides topographic detail at a standardized 1:250,000 scale
- Contains multiple feature types including infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, and contours
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 GIS use
Provenance
- Source
- Geoscience Australia Data
- Collection Method
- Part of the published AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-25 15:27:28.337262; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Australia