Fire and Rescue NSW Emergency Service Facilities in New South Wales

Fire and Rescue NSW provides a point feature dataset representing the location of emergency service facilities in New South Wales. The data includes urban fire stations and other emergency service locations, positioned within their cadastral parcels. The dataset is updated daily and uses the GDA2020 geodetic datum for improved accuracy and compatibility.

Use Cases

• Map urban fire station locations for emergency response planning based on the described point features.
• Analyze the spatial distribution of emergency service facilities relative to population centers based on the cadastral parcel positioning.
• Integrate emergency service locations with other geospatial datasets for risk assessment based on the GDA2020 standard alignment.

Strengths

• Updated daily, suggesting high data currency.
• Uses the GDA2020 national geodetic standard, improving positional accuracy and interoperability.
• Explicitly includes urban fire stations as a defined feature type.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Historically captured as part of the NSW topographic mapping program.

Freshness

Updated daily.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia.