AUSTopo digital topographic map for the Thursday Island area at a scale of 1:250,000. This map is part of a 516-map series covering the entire continent of Australia, produced by Geoscience Australia. It contains natural and constructed features including infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, and contours.
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-use studies based on vegetation and hydrography features
- Creating base maps for regional GIS applications based on standardized topographic features
Strengths
- Part of a standardized 516-map series providing continent-wide coverage
- Shows multiple feature types including infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, and contours
- Uses modern geodetic datums (GDA94, GDA2020) and UTM projection
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Data is provided in PDF format, which may require conversion for computational analysis
Provenance
- Source
- Geoscience Australia Data
- Collection Method
- Published digital topographic mapping series
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03 25 22:16:50.827038; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Thursday Island area, Australia