NSW Topographic Map Layer with Roads, Contours, and Property Boundaries

A rasterized topographic map mosaic covering New South Wales, Australia, derived from the Digital Topographic Database. The service includes roads, points of interest, localities, contours, drainage, cultural data, parks, forests, and property boundaries. It is provided by Spatial Services, a business unit of the Department of Customer Service NSW, and was initially published in July 2019.

Use Cases

• Create regional maps based on integrated roads, drainage, and contours.
• Support emergency services planning based on property boundaries and localities.
• Analyze land cover and natural resource management based on parks, forests, and cultural data.
• Perform geoscience studies based on topographic features and contours.
• Assess sustainable development projects based on integrated transport and physiography data.

Strengths

• Provides seamless mosaic coverage across NSW.
• Integrates data from multiple standard map series (1:100,000; 1:50,000; 1:25,000).
• Aligns with the seven themes of the Foundation Spatial Data Framework.
• Positional accuracy is within 0.5mm at map scale for 90% of features.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Depictions of roads and tracks do not necessarily indicate a public right of way.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Spatial Services, Department of Customer Service NSW.

Collection Method

Derived from Spatial Services' Digital Topographic Database (DTDB).

Freshness

Data currency is listed as 01/01/3000; update frequency is 'Other'.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia.