516 maps comprise the AUSTopo series, which covers 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 visualization based on 50-meter contour intervals mentioned in the description
- Infrastructure planning and routing based on road and rail network data
- Environmental and land-use studies based on vegetation and hydrography features
- Creating regional base maps for other geospatial datasets based on standardized sheet coverage
Strengths
- Covers the entire continent of Australia with 516 map sheets
- Provides data at the largest scale (1:250,000) for published topographic maps covering the continent
- Contains multiple natural and constructed feature types including contours, infrastructure, and vegetation
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Data is provided only in PDF format, which may require extraction for computational analysis
Provenance
- Source
- Geoscience Australia Data
- Collection Method
- Part of the published AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-25 16:36:46.705800; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Australia