Emergency Service Facility Locations in New South Wales

NSW Features of Interest - Emergency Service Facilities is a point feature dataset representing the locations of emergency service facilities such as Police, Fire, and State Emergency Service (SES) stations across New South Wales, Australia. The dataset is crucial for the delivery of emergency services and is published by Spatial Services (DCS). The service is currently scheduled for retirement and users are advised to transition to a newer GDA2020-aligned version.

Use Cases

• Mapping emergency service coverage based on facility point locations.
• Analyzing proximity of incidents to Police, Fire, and SES stations.
• Planning logistics and response routes for emergency management.
• Integrating facility data into GDA94-aligned spatial applications.

Strengths

• Dataset is published by an authoritative government source, Spatial Services (DCS).
• Serves a critical function for emergency service delivery across NSW.
• Available via API and data export, providing multiple access methods.

Limitations

• The specific GDA94 spatial reference may cause misalignments in GDA2020 environments.
• The service is explicitly marked as deprecated and scheduled for retirement.
• Key metadata such as row count, specific columns, and license are not provided in the sources.

Provenance

Source

Spatial Services (DCS), New South Wales Government

Freshness

Last updated: 2026-05-18 01:09:02.127313

Geography

New South Wales, Australia