Full description
The AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series covers the whole of Australia at a scale of 1:250 000 (1cm on a map represents 2.5 km on the ground). This is the largest scale at which published topographic maps cover the entire continent. Each standard map covers an area of approximately 1.5 degrees longitude by 1 degree latitude or about 150 kilometres from east to west and at least 110 kilometres from north to south. The topographic map shows approximate coverage of the sheets. The map may contain information from surrounding map sheets to maximise utilisation of available space on the map sheet. There are about 50 special maps in the series and these maps cover a non-standard area. Typically, where a map produced on standard sheet lines is largely ocean it is combined with its landward neighbour. These maps contain natural and constructed features including road and rail infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, contours (interval 50m), localities and some administrative boundaries. The series currently comprises 509 maps, excluding maps covering Tasmania. Maps at a scale of 1:250,000 covering Tasmania can be downloaded from the Tasmanian government TASMAP website.Coordinates: Geographical and MGA Datum: GDA94, GDA2020, AHD. Projection: Universal Traverse Mercator (UTM) Medium: Digital PDF download.
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Maintenance and Update Frequency: annually
Statement: The new 1:250 000 topographic maps are called the AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series. They will be released systematically from 2023 and will appear for download on the 1:250 000 dashboard. This dashboard shows both the 1995 – 2012 maps and the updated versions. The AUSTopo 1:250,000 topographic maps are maintained on a yearly update cycle.
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PurposeTo provide Australian topographic digital maps at 1:250 000 scale available for free download to any device by the public. These maps are suitable for large-format printing.
Issued: 17 03 2026
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Subjects
1:250 000 |
AUSTopo - Australian Digital Topographic Map Series |
Australia |
EARTH SCIENCES |
Published_External |
digital map |
geoscientificInformation |
mapping |
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Other Information
Link to Geoscience Australia's Topographic map web page (Topographic map internet page)
Link to Visualisation dashboard (1:250 000 Topographic Map Index)
url :
https://geoscience-au.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/7820589ed6954758a9b23a9d596b76a5
Click here to view the catalogue records for the Topographic Map Web Services (View Web Services Metadata)
To display search result open link in a new tab in your browser (View all Map Catalogue records in this Series)
Link to view and download Map Index and Shapefiles (Index and Dataset)
url :
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/148692
Identifiers
- URL : pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/150463
- global : e0c8c687-50ff-47c4-b20c-ca45cde8ca32
