516 maps provide full continental coverage of Australia at a 1:250,000 scale. Each standard map sheet covers approximately 1.5 degrees longitude by 1 degree latitude, depicting features like road infrastructure, hydrography, and 50-meter contours. The series includes about 50 special maps for non-standard areas.
Use Cases
- Extract road and rail infrastructure features for transportation network analysis.
- Analyze hydrography data for watershed modeling and water resource studies.
- Use 50-meter contour intervals for terrain analysis and elevation modeling.
- Identify vegetation coverage and administrative boundaries for land use planning.
Strengths
- Covers the entire continent of Australia with 516 map sheets.
- Provides data at the largest scale (1:250,000) for published topographic maps covering Australia.
- Contains natural and constructed features including contours, hydrography, and infrastructure.
Limitations
- Data is provided only in PDF format, requiring extraction for geospatial analysis.
- Map sheets may contain information from surrounding sheets, potentially complicating precise area-based queries.
Provenance
- Source
- Geoscience Australia Data
- Collection Method
- Part of the AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series.
- Time Range
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- Freshness
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- Geography
- Australia