NSW Hospital Locations by Type, GDA2020 Geospatial Service

New South Wales health facility locations categorized as hospitals, represented as point features within cadastral parcels. The dataset includes children's, general, and psychiatric hospitals, updated daily and aligned to the GDA2020 national spatial standard. It is provided by Spatial Services, a business unit of the NSW Department of Customer Service.

Use Cases

• Mapping hospital service accessibility based on categorized point locations.
• Analyzing spatial distribution of psychiatric versus general hospitals.
• Integrating health facility data with other cadastral or foundation spatial datasets.

Strengths

• Updated daily, ensuring high data currency.
• Aligned with the national GDA2020 spatial standard, improving accuracy and compatibility.
• Categorized into specific hospital types (children's, general, psychiatric).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Accuracy varies, as data was captured from sources at scales ranging from 1:500 to 1:250,000.

Provenance

Source

Spatial Services, NSW Department of Customer Service.

Collection Method

Captured from data provider files as part of the NSW topographic mapping program.

Freshness

Daily update frequency.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia.