General Cultural Points in New South Wales, Australia

General Cultural Point is a Point feature class defining general cultural feature types for New South Wales. The dataset includes features such as pondages, beacons, cemeteries, dumping grounds, industrial points, towers, racetracks, and dam walls. It is provided by Spatial Services, a business unit of the Department of Customer Service NSW, with an initial publication date of 06/02/2020.

Use Cases

• Map recreational facilities based on features like swimming pools, BMX tracks, and athletics tracks.
• Analyze industrial land use based on features like silos, quarries, and intensive livestock facilities.
• Identify historical or memorial sites based on features like cemeteries and crematoriums.
• Model energy or communication infrastructure based on features like wind generators, communication towers, and lighthouses.
• Assess water management structures based on features like dam walls, settling ponds, and filtration beds.

Strengths

• Dataset maintains positional alignment with other NSW foundational spatial data themes.
• Covers a diverse range of cultural feature types, from cemeteries to racetracks.
• Provides direct API and data export access for integration.

Limitations

• The service is scheduled for retirement and references an outdated spatial reference (GDA94).
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Spatial Services, Department of Customer Service NSW

Collection Method

Data provider files compiled into an ESRI File Geodatabase.

Time Range

Initial publication date is 06/02/2020.

Freshness

Data currency is listed as 01/01/3000, which is likely a placeholder; the service is marked for retirement.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia