Australian Topographic Map Series at 1:250,000 Scale

AUSTopo provides 516 digital topographic 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, depicting features like road infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, and 50-meter contours. The series is produced by Geoscience Australia and includes about 50 special maps for non-standard areas.

Use Cases

• Extract road and rail infrastructure features from map sheets for transportation network analysis.
• Analyze hydrography and 50-meter contour intervals for regional water resource and terrain modeling.
• Identify vegetation coverage and administrative boundaries for land-use planning studies.
• Combine information from surrounding map sheets to create seamless regional geospatial datasets.

Strengths

• Covers the entire continent of Australia with 516 map sheets.
• Provides the largest scale (1:250,000) for published topographic maps covering Australia.
• Contains natural and constructed features including infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, and contours.

Limitations

• Data is provided in PDF format, which requires extraction or conversion for direct geospatial analysis.
• Map sheets may contain information from surrounding sheets, potentially complicating precise boundary-based queries.
• The sample data and specific column/attribute structure are unavailable for review.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Part of the AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03 26.

Geography

Australia