NSW Geocoded Addressing Theme: Property-Based Address Points for New South Wales

The Geocoded Urban and Rural Addressing System (GURAS) is a property-based address database serving as a single source of truth for New South Wales. It is maintained by Spatial Services, a business unit of the Department of Customer Service NSW, and was initially published on 14/02/2020. The dataset includes address point sub-types such as Building, Homestead, Monument, Property, Unit/Strata, and Other.

Use Cases

• Computer-aided dispatch systems based on the property-based address database.
• Postal and delivery service routing based on geocoded address points.
• Emergency services location identification based on the single source of truth for NSW addresses.
• Spatial analysis of address distribution based on the Building, Homestead, and Property point sub-types.

Strengths

• Serves as a single source of truth for address information in NSW, eliminating costly duplication across agencies.
• Includes multiple address point sub-types (Building, Homestead, Monument, Property, Unit/Strata, Other) for different spatial representations.
• Intended for use by all levels of government and major service providers, suggesting a high level of curation.

Limitations

• Address points are system-generated and may not directly correlate to dwelling locations, especially for rural properties with multiple lots.
• The dataset's spatial reference is WGS 84 aligned to GDA94, which may cause misalignments in GDA2020 environments.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Spatial Services, Department of Customer Service NSW

Collection Method

Data provider files

Time Range

Initial publication 14/02/2020

Freshness

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

Geography

New South Wales, Australia