516 maps covering the entire continent of Australia at a 1:250,000 scale, where 1 cm represents 2.5 km on the ground. The series, produced by Geoscience Australia, includes natural and constructed features such as roads, railways, vegetation, hydrography, and 50-meter contours. Each standard map sheet covers an area of approximately 1.5 degrees longitude by 1 degree latitude.
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 GIS projects based on standardized sheet coverage
Strengths
- Covers the entire continent of Australia with 516 map sheets
- Provides topographic detail at a standardized 1:250,000 scale
- Includes multiple feature types such as infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, and contours
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
- Part of the AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-25 17:00:19.510998; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Australia