General Cultural Area Features in New South Wales, Australia

A polygon feature dataset from Spatial Services NSW defining man-made cultural areas. Feature types include building dwellings and various pondage types like swimming pools and settling ponds. The dataset aligns with the national GDA2020 spatial standard and maintains positional relationships with other NSW foundational spatial data themes.

Use Cases

• Mapping residential building footprints based on the dwelling polygon feature type.
• Identifying public recreational water bodies based on the swimming pool feature type.
• Analyzing water treatment infrastructure locations based on settling pond and water filtration bed feature types.
• Planning around restricted defense areas based on the restricted area feature type.

Strengths

• Aligned with the national GDA2020 spatial standard, improving positional accuracy and compatibility.
• Maintains positional relationship with multiple foundational spatial data themes including transport and water.
• Captured using source data at scales ranging from 1:500 to 1:250,000.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to its source, focusing solely on New South Wales, Australia.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Captured by utilising the best available source data at a variety of scales.

Freshness

Data currency is listed as 01/01/3000, which is likely a placeholder; last platform update was 2026-05-18.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia.