South Lake Woods SE53-09: AUSTopo 1:250,000 Digital Topographic Map of Australia

AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series covers the entire continent at a scale of 1:250,000, comprising 516 standard and 50 special map sheets. Each standard map covers approximately 1.5 degrees longitude by 1 degree latitude, showing natural and constructed features including infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, and contours. The data is provided by Geoscience Australia as a digital PDF download.

Use Cases

• Terrain analysis and elevation modeling based on 50-meter contour intervals
• Infrastructure planning and routing based on road and rail network data
• Environmental and land cover studies based on vegetation and hydrography features
• Creating regional base maps for other datasets based on administrative boundaries and localities

Strengths

• Covers the entire continent of Australia with 516 map sheets
• Provides topographic detail at a scale of 1:250,000, the largest scale for full continental coverage
• Includes multiple constructed and natural features such as roads, vegetation, hydrography, and contours

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Data is provided only in PDF format, which may limit direct machine-readability for analysis

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Published digital topographic map series

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03 25 23:54:26.367002; freshness should be verified

Geography

Australia