Elliston Topographic Map Sheet At 1:250,000 Scale

516 maps comprise the AUSTopo series, the largest-scale topographic map collection covering the entire Australian continent. Each standard sheet depicts a 1.5° by 1° area, showing natural and constructed features like roads, vegetation, and 50-meter contours. Geoscience Australia publishes these digital maps in PDF format with GDA94/GDA2020 coordinates and UTM projection.

Use Cases

• Extract road and rail infrastructure features for regional transportation network analysis.
• Analyze hydrography and 50-meter contour intervals for watershed modeling and elevation studies.
• Identify vegetation coverage and administrative boundaries for land-use planning.
• Combine map sheets where standard sheets are largely ocean to create continuous coastal coverage.

Strengths

• Covers the entire Australian continent with 516 map sheets.
• Provides the largest-scale (1:250,000) published topographic coverage for Australia.
• Contains multiple geographic datums (GDA94, GDA2020, AHD) and uses UTM projection.

Limitations

• Data is delivered as PDF files, requiring feature extraction for GIS or analytical use.
• Map sheets may contain information from surrounding sheets, potentially complicating precise spatial joins.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Published digital topographic map series.

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Geography

Australia