New South Wales Property Boundaries and Cadastral Polygons

Daily updated polygon feature data representing property boundaries and cadastral information for New South Wales, Australia. The dataset is provided by Spatial Services, a business unit of the Department of Customer Service NSW, with an initial publication date of February 9, 2020. It spatially represents aspatial property descriptions from the Property NSW Valnet database.

Use Cases

• Map property boundaries and analyze spatial relationships between 'Property (complete)', 'Incomplete', and 'Other' property categories.
• Integrate property polygon data with address features for location-based services and spatial analysis.
• Perform cadastral analysis by aligning property data with the Lot dataset for positional accuracy assessment.
• Support urban planning workflows by visualizing the distribution and classification of land parcels across NSW.

Strengths

• Daily update frequency ensures current property information.
• Data maintains positional alignment with the authoritative Lot and Property digital datasets.
• Captured from best available cadastral mapping at scales ranging from 1:500 to 1:250,000.

Limitations

• Spatial reference is GDA94, which cannot be easily consumed into newer GDA2020 coordinate reference systems.
• The service is scheduled for retirement, requiring users to transition to a new GDA2020 service.
• Specific row counts and total geographic coverage area are not provided.

Provenance

Source

Spatial Services (Department of Customer Service NSW), sourced from Property NSW Valnet database.

Collection Method

Digitized from the best available cadastral mapping; processes in place for continuous updates.

Time Range

Data currency is listed as 01/01/3000, indicating ongoing updates; initial publication was 2020.

Freshness

Daily

Geography

New South Wales, Australia.