Australian Topographic Map at 1:250,000 Scale

AUSTopo provides 516 digital topographic maps covering the entire continent of Australia at a scale of 1:250,000. Each standard map sheet depicts an area of approximately 1.5 degrees longitude by 1 degree latitude, showing natural and constructed features. The series is produced by Geoscience Australia and includes both standard and approximately 50 special maps for non-standard areas.

Use Cases

• Extract road and rail infrastructure features for national transportation network analysis.
• Analyze hydrography and 50-meter contour intervals for terrain and watershed modeling.
• Identify vegetation coverage and administrative boundaries for land-use planning studies.

Strengths

• Covers the entire continent of Australia with 516 map sheets.
• Provides the largest scale (1:250,000) for published topographic maps covering Australia.
• Includes both natural and constructed features such as infrastructure, vegetation, and contours.

Limitations

• Data is provided in PDF format only, requiring extraction for geospatial analysis.
• Map sheets may contain information from surrounding sheets, potentially complicating precise area-based queries.
• Temporal coverage of the underlying source data is not specified, which may affect currency.

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