Canberra Region Topographic Map at 1:250,000 Scale

516 maps comprise the AUSTopo 1:250,000 digital series covering the entire continent of Australia. Each standard map sheet covers an area of approximately 1.5 degrees longitude by 1 degree latitude. The series contains natural and constructed features including infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, and 50-meter contours.

Use Cases

• Extract road and rail infrastructure features for regional transportation network analysis.
• Analyze hydrography and 50-meter contour intervals for terrain and watershed modeling.
• Identify vegetation coverage and administrative boundaries for land-use planning studies.
• Combine map sheets with non-standard areas, such as those largely ocean, for coastal zone mapping.

Strengths

• Covers the entire continent of Australia with 516 map sheets.
• Provides the largest scale (1:250,000) topographic map coverage for the entire continent.
• Contains multiple data layers including infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, and contours.

Limitations

• Data is provided in PDF format, which requires feature extraction for analytical use.
• Map sheets may contain information from surrounding sheets, potentially complicating precise area-based analysis.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Published digital topographic map series.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Australia, specifically the Canberra region (SI55-16) and the entire continent.