Newcastle Waters Topographic Map at 1:250,000 Scale

AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series provides 516 maps covering the entire continent at a 1:250,000 scale. Each standard map sheet covers approximately 1.5 degrees longitude by 1 degree latitude, depicting natural and constructed features like roads, vegetation, and contours. The series is produced by Geoscience Australia.

Use Cases

• Extract road and rail infrastructure features for transportation network analysis.
• Analyze hydrography and 50m interval contours for terrain and watershed modeling.
• Identify vegetation coverage and administrative boundaries for land use planning.
• Georeference map sheets using UTM projection and GDA94/GDA2020 datum for spatial integration.

Strengths

• Covers the entire continent of Australia with 516 map sheets.
• Largest scale (1:250,000) for published topographic maps covering Australia.
• Includes diverse feature types: infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, and contours.

Limitations

• Data is provided only in PDF format, requiring extraction for analytical use.
• Map sheets may contain information from surrounding sheets, potentially complicating precise area analysis.
• Approximately 50 maps in the series cover non-standard areas, introducing inconsistency in sheet boundaries.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Part of the published AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Australia