Oodnadatta Topographic Map at 1:250,000 Scale

Geoscience Australia Data provides the Oodnadatta SG53-15 digital topographic map from the AUSTopo series. The series comprises 516 maps covering the entire continent of Australia at a scale of 1:250,000, where 1 cm represents 2.5 km on the ground. Each standard map sheet covers an area of approximately 1.5 degrees longitude by 1 degree latitude.

Use Cases

• Extract road and rail infrastructure features for regional 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.
• Georeference map data using its GDA94/GDA2020 datum and UTM projection for GIS integration.

Strengths

• Part of a standardized national series of 516 maps providing continent-wide coverage.
• Map scale of 1:250,000 represents the largest scale covering all of Australia.
• Contains multiple feature types including infrastructure, hydrography, vegetation, and contours.

Limitations

• Data is provided as a static PDF, requiring extraction and conversion for analytical use.
• Map may contain information from surrounding sheets, potentially complicating precise area analysis.
• The series includes about 50 non-standard area maps, introducing inconsistency in sheet boundaries.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Digitally published topographic map from the national AUSTopo series.

Time Range

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Freshness

2026-03-26

Geography

Covers the Oodnadatta region of Australia; series covers entire continent.