Ferry Routes in New South Wales, Australia

A line feature dataset from the NSW Spatial Services depicting routes used for regular passenger and vehicle ferry transport across inland waters and the sea. The data aligns with topographic and cadastral databases where possible and is part of the Foundation Spatial Data Framework Transport Theme. It has been updated to the GDA2020 spatial reference system, improving accuracy and compatibility with modern positioning technologies.

Use Cases

• Mapping public ferry network coverage based on the described line features.
• Analyzing transport infrastructure integration based on alignment with topographic and cadastral data.
• Planning for maritime transport connectivity based on the route and terminal point data.

Strengths

• Updated to the GDA2020 national spatial standard, improving positional accuracy.
• Positional accuracy is defined per map scale, ranging from 0.25m at 1:500 scale to 50m at 1:100,000 scale for 90% of well-defined points.
• Part of a foundational government spatial data framework, suggesting a degree of official curation.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Captured from the best available source at scales ranging from 1:500 to 1:250,000.

Freshness

Data currency is listed as 01/01/3000, which is a placeholder; the service was last updated on 2026-05-17.

Geography

Full State of New South Wales, Australia.