Burketown Topographic Map At 1:250,000 Scale

516 maps form the AUSTopo series, the largest-scale topographic map series covering the entire Australian continent. Each standard map sheet depicts a 1.5° by 1° area, showing features like road infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, and 50-meter contour intervals. The series is produced by Geoscience Australia and includes about 50 special maps covering non-standard areas.

Use Cases

• Extract road and rail infrastructure vectors from map sheets for transportation network analysis.
• Analyze hydrography and 50-meter contour interval data for watershed modeling and terrain analysis.
• Identify vegetation coverage and administrative boundaries for land-use planning studies.
• Georeference map sheets using GDA94/GDA2020 datum and UTM projection for integration with other spatial datasets.

Strengths

• Covers the entire Australian continent with 516 map sheets.
• Provides the largest-scale (1:250,000) published topographic coverage for Australia.
• Contains detailed natural and constructed features including contours, hydrography, and infrastructure.

Limitations

• Data is delivered as static PDF files, requiring extraction and vectorization for analytical use.
• Map sheets may contain information from surrounding sheets, potentially complicating precise area-based analysis.
• The 'special maps' covering non-standard areas deviate from the consistent sheet layout.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Published topographic mapping as part of the AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series.

Time Range

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Geography

Australia