516 maps covering the entire continent of Australia at a scale of 1:250,000. Each standard map sheet covers an area of approximately 1.5 degrees longitude by 1 degree latitude, showing natural and constructed features including roads, rail, vegetation, hydrography, and 50-meter contours. The data is provided by Geoscience Australia in digital PDF format.
Use Cases
- Terrain analysis and elevation modeling based on 50-meter contour intervals
- Infrastructure planning and routing based on road and rail network data
- Landscape and vegetation mapping based on natural feature coverage
- Creating regional base maps for GIS projects based on standardized sheet coverage
Strengths
- Covers the entire continent of Australia with 516 map sheets
- Largest scale (1:250,000) at which published topographic maps cover the entire continent
- Contains multiple feature types including infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, and contours
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Data is provided in PDF format, which may require conversion for direct geospatial analysis
Provenance
- Source
- Geoscience Australia Data
- Collection Method
- Part of the AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03 17:04:26.284701; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Australia