Geoscience Australia Data provides the Westwood SG51-16 map, part of the AUSTopo 1:250,000 digital topographic series covering the entire continent. The series comprises 516 standard maps, each covering approximately 1.5 by 1 degrees, and about 50 special maps for non-standard areas. The maps contain natural and constructed features including roads, rail, vegetation, hydrography, and 50m contours, last updated on 2026-03 25.
Use Cases
- Terrain analysis and elevation modeling based on 50m contour intervals.
- Infrastructure planning and routing based on road and rail network data.
- Land cover and vegetation mapping based on natural feature layers.
- Administrative boundary verification based on boundary information mentioned in the description.
Strengths
- Covers the entire continent of Australia at its largest published topographic scale.
- Comprises 516 standard map sheets, providing systematic coverage.
- Includes approximately 50 special maps for optimized coastal and non-standard areas.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Data is provided in PDF format, which may require conversion for direct geospatial analysis.
Provenance
- Source
- Geoscience Australia Data
- Collection Method
- Published digital topographic map series.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-25 16:13:22.510056; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Australia