New South Wales Local Government Areas with Cadastral Boundaries

Local Government Areas is a geospatial dataset from the Foundation Spatial Data Framework depicting gazetted administrative boundaries for New South Wales. It contains polygon features for shires, municipalities, cities, and unincorporated areas, aligned with cadastral and topographic data. The dataset is maintained by Spatial Services, a business unit of the NSW Department of Customer Service, and is updated daily.

Use Cases

• Mapping jurisdictional boundaries for planning applications based on gazetted Local Government Area polygons.
• Integrating administrative data using ABS Codes, Ito Codes, Vg Codes, and Wb Codes mentioned in the description.
• Maintaining topological alignment with land parcel datasets for cadastral updates.
• Visualizing the spatial extent of councils and unincorporated areas across the state.

Strengths

• Updated daily, with a stated data currency date of 01/01/3000.
• Positional accuracy is defined per the National Mapping Council of Australia standards, with tolerances ranging from 0.25m at 1:500 scale to 50m at 1:100000 scale.
• Features are maintained in topological alignment with the Lot and Property digital datasets.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The positional accuracy program is ongoing, meaning some areas may have legacy accuracy levels.

Provenance

Source

Spatial Services, a business unit of the Department of Customer Service NSW.

Collection Method

Digitised from the best available cadastral mapping at scales ranging from 1:500 to 1:250 000.

Freshness

Daily

Geography

Full state of New South Wales, Australia.