New South Wales Protected Area Boundaries for National Parks and Wildlife Service

Reserve boundaries delineate National Parks, Nature Reserves, Historic Sites, and other protected areas under the National Parks and Wildlife Act, 1974. Spatial Services, a business unit of the NSW Department of Customer Service, maintains this dataset from government gazettes and environmental agency sources. The dataset was initially published in May 2020.

Use Cases

• Analyze spatial overlap between Reserve boundaries and other administrative or land parcel layers for zoning compliance checks.
• Map the distribution of protected area types (e.g., National Park, Nature Reserve, Historic Site) across NSW for conservation reporting.
• Validate the legal status of land parcels against the authoritative Reserve feature class for property development assessments.
• Monitor changes in reserve boundaries over time by cross-referencing updates from government gazette notices.

Strengths

• Dataset contains seven distinct protected area types, including National Parks and Aboriginal Areas.
• Officially maintained by the Office of Environment and Heritage with updates sourced from NSW Government Gazette notices.

Limitations

• The spatial reference is aligned to GDA94, which may cause misalignment in modern GDA2020 coordinate systems.
• The service is marked as 'RETIRING', indicating users must transition to a newer version, creating potential workflow disruption.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Maintained from information sourced from the Office of Environment and Heritage and NSW Government Gazette notices.

Time Range

Initial publication date is 05/05/2020.

Freshness

Data currency date is listed as 01/01/3000, suggesting a placeholder; update frequency is listed as 'Other'.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia.