Throssell SG51-15: Australian Topographic Map at 1:250,000 Scale

A digital topographic map sheet from the AUSTopo series covering the whole of Australia at a scale of 1:250,000. The series comprises 516 standard maps, each covering approximately 1.5 degrees longitude by 1 degree latitude, and is produced by Geoscience Australia. It depicts natural and constructed features including infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, and 50-meter contours.

Use Cases

• Terrain analysis and elevation modeling based on 50-meter contour intervals.
• Infrastructure and land-use planning based on depicted road, rail, and administrative boundaries.
• Environmental and hydrological studies based on mapped vegetation and hydrography features.

Strengths

• Covers the entire continent of Australia at its largest published topographic scale (1:250,000).
• Series comprises 516 standard maps, providing systematic coverage.
• Contains multiple natural and constructed feature layers, including contours, hydrography, and infrastructure.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 19:18:03.972425; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia