Australian Topographic Map at 1:250,000 Scale

516 maps cover the entire continent of Australia at a scale of 1:250,000. Each standard map depicts an area of approximately 1.5 degrees longitude by 1 degree latitude, showing natural and constructed features including infrastructure, vegetation, and hydrography. The series is produced by Geoscience Australia.

Use Cases

• Extract road and rail infrastructure features for national 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.
• Georeference map sheets using UTM projection and GDA94/GDA2020 datum for spatial integration.

Strengths

• Covers the entire Australian continent with 516 map sheets.
• Provides the largest-scale topographic map series published for the whole continent.
• Contains multiple feature layers including infrastructure, hydrography, contours, and vegetation.

Limitations

• Data is provided in PDF format only, requiring extraction for structured geospatial analysis.
• Map sheets may contain information from surrounding sheets, potentially complicating precise tile-based analysis.

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 March 2026.

Geography

Australia