Floodplain Management Plans for New South Wales, Australia

Floodplain Management Plans are hosted feature layers published by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water. The data was initially published on 28/08/2024 and is accessible via an ArcGIS REST API. The spatial reference system for the dataset is GDA94.

Use Cases

• Assess flood risk for land-use planning based on the described floodplain management plan boundaries.
• Model hydrological impacts of development projects based on the spatial extent of floodplans.
• Integrate regulatory floodplain data into environmental impact studies based on the geospatial service.

Strengths

• Data has a specific initial publication date of 28/08/2024.
• Spatial reference system (GDA94) is explicitly documented.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water

Collection Method

Hosted via ArcGIS REST Feature Server.

Freshness

Data Update Frequency is listed as 'API'.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia