Bulloo SH54-04 Topographic Map of Australia at 1:250,000 Scale

516 maps cover the entire continent of Australia at a 1:250,000 scale, the largest scale for full continental coverage. Each standard map sheet depicts an area of approximately 1.5 degrees longitude by 1 degree latitude, containing natural and constructed features. The series is produced by Geoscience Australia and includes about 50 special maps covering non-standard areas.

Use Cases

• Extract road and rail infrastructure features for regional transportation network analysis.
• Analyze hydrography and 50-meter interval contours for watershed modeling and terrain assessment.
• Identify vegetation coverage and administrative boundaries for land-use planning studies.
• Combine map sheets where standard sheets are largely ocean to create continuous coastal land cover datasets.

Strengths

• Covers the entire continent of Australia with 516 map sheets.
• Provides the largest scale (1:250,000) topographic coverage for the entire continent.
• Includes approximately 50 special maps for non-standard geographic areas.

Limitations

• Data is provided in static PDF format, requiring extraction for geospatial analysis.
• Map sheets may contain information from surrounding sheets, potentially complicating precise boundary-based analysis.
• The description does not specify the currency of the underlying source data within the PDFs.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Part of the AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-26.

Geography

Australia