NSW Land Parcel and Property Theme: Cadastral Boundaries and Ownership Data

NSW Land Parcel Property Theme MultiCRS is a polygon dataset representing areas of land with defined boundaries under unique ownership for specific property rights or interests. The dataset, maintained by Spatial Services (DCS), serves as the foundation fabric of land ownership in New South Wales, Australia, and supports requests in multiple coordinate reference systems. It is updated through a maintenance program capturing changes from new survey plans and other sources.

Use Cases

• Secure land tenure for capital access based on defined property rights and interests.
• Plan infrastructure and property development using the digital cadastral database fabric.
• Manage native title, conservation, and disaster response based on land parcel boundaries.
• Conduct water and carbon accounting programs linked to specific land parcels.
• Improve spatial accuracy of land records by incorporating survey data from local authorities.

Strengths

• Supports multiple coordinate reference systems (MultiCRS) for flexible integration.
• Positional accuracy is documented, ranging from less than -0.2m in urban areas to less than 5m in rural areas.
• Contains a unique identifier for each parcel, enabling linkage to land titles and other records.
• Maintained through an ongoing program capturing changes from survey plans and local government data.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale ML tasks.
• Freshness should be verified despite a last updated date of 2026-05 04.

Provenance

Source

Spatial Services (DCS), New South Wales, Australia.

Collection Method

Maintained from new survey plans and data provided by Local Government Authorities, Hunter Water, and Sydney Water.

Time Range

Up-to-date cadastre; specific temporal coverage is not stated.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-04 04:22:36.749876.

Geography

State of New South Wales, Australia.