NSW Hospital Locations by Type, GDA2020 Geospatial Service
Updated 16d ago
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Description
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.
Data is provided as an ArcGIS REST service; specialized GIS software may be required for access and analysis.