AUSTopo 1:250,000 digital topographic map covering a non-standard area in Australia. This map is part of a 516-map series, the largest scale covering the entire continent, and contains natural and constructed features like roads, vegetation, hydrography, and 50-meter contours. The data is provided by Geoscience Australia as a digital PDF download.
Use Cases
- Perform terrain analysis based on 50-meter contour intervals.
- Plan infrastructure routes based on road and rail network data.
- Conduct regional environmental studies based on vegetation and hydrography features.
- Create reference maps for land administration based on administrative boundaries.
Strengths
- Part of a standardized national series of 516 maps covering all of Australia.
- Contains multiple feature types including infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, and contours.
- Uses modern geodetic datums (GDA94, GDA2020) and a standard projection (UTM).
Limitations
- Data is provided in PDF format, which may require conversion for direct geospatial analysis.
- The map may contain information from surrounding sheets, potentially complicating precise boundary analysis.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Geoscience Australia Data
- Collection Method
- Published digital topographic map series.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03 16:17:17.196068; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Australia, specifically the Esperance Special SI51-06 non-standard map area.