Australian Topographic Map Series at 1:250,000 Scale

Kimba SI53-07 is a digital topographic map from Geoscience Australia's AUSTopo series covering the entire continent at a 1:250,000 scale. The series comprises 516 standard maps, each covering approximately 150 by 110 kilometers, and includes about 50 special maps for non-standard areas. It contains natural and constructed features such as road and rail infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, and 50-meter contours.

Use Cases

• Extract road and rail infrastructure features for transportation network analysis and routing models.
• Analyze hydrography and 50-meter contour data for watershed modeling and terrain analysis.
• Use vegetation and administrative boundary layers for land-use classification and environmental planning.
• Georeference map sheets using GDA94/GDA2020 coordinates and UTM projection for spatial integration with other datasets.

Strengths

• Covers the entire continent of Australia with 516 standard map sheets.
• Provides topographic detail at 1:250,000 scale, the largest scale covering the whole continent.
• Includes multiple feature layers: infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, contours, and administrative boundaries.

Limitations

• Data is provided in static PDF format, requiring extraction for geospatial analysis.
• Map sheets may contain information from surrounding sheets, potentially complicating precise tile-based analysis.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Published digital topographic map series.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Australia