Coober Pedy Topographic Map at 1:250,000 Scale

516 maps comprise the AUSTopo series, providing 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 natural and constructed features like roads, vegetation, hydrography, and 50-meter contours. The series is produced by Geoscience Australia.

Use Cases

• Extract road and rail infrastructure features for regional transportation network analysis.
• Analyze hydrography and 50-meter contour intervals for watershed modeling and terrain assessment.
• Identify vegetation coverage and administrative boundaries for land-use planning studies.
• Georeference map sheets using UTM projection and GDA94/GDA2020 datum for integration into GIS projects.

Strengths

• Covers the entire continent of Australia with 516 map sheets.
• Provides a standardized scale of 1:250,000, the largest scale for full continental coverage.
• Contains multiple feature layers including infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, and contours.

Limitations

• Data is delivered as static PDF files, requiring extraction for quantitative geospatial analysis.
• Map sheets may contain information from surrounding sheets, potentially complicating precise boundary-based queries.
• The series includes about 50 non-standard area maps, introducing inconsistency in sheet dimensions.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Part of the published AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Australia