Digital Topographic Map of Australia at 1:250,000 Scale

516 maps cover the entire continent of Australia at a scale of 1:250,000. The series includes natural and constructed features such as infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, and 50-meter contours, with each standard map covering approximately 150 by 110 kilometers. It is produced by Geoscience Australia.

Use Cases

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

Strengths

• Covers the entire continent of Australia with 516 map sheets.
• Provides topographic detail at a scale of 1:250,000, the largest scale covering the whole continent.
• Includes multiple geodetic datums (GDA94, GDA2020) and uses the Universal Transverse Mercator projection.

Limitations

• Data is provided only in PDF format, requiring extraction for geospatial analysis.
• Map sheets may contain information from surrounding sheets, potentially complicating precise boundary 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 in March 2026.

Geography

Australia