NSW Points of Interest: Community, Education, and Transportation Features

A spatial web service providing the identification and location of named places people may want to visit in New South Wales, Australia. Features are programmatically derived from the Digital Topographic Database and include categories like Community, Education, Recreation, and Transportation. The dataset is maintained by Spatial Services (DCS) and was last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Mapping community service locations based on the described POI categories.
• Analyzing the distribution of educational or recreational facilities using the sourced spatial attributes.
• Developing transportation or utility network models based on features related to those domains.
• Creating visitor guides or tourism applications using named place data.

Strengths

• Data is programmatically maintained and sourced from the authoritative Digital Topographic Database.
• Compliant with the NSW Foundation Spatial Data Framework (FSDF) and its specifications.
• Covers multiple domains including Community, Education, Recreation, and Transportation.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The service is available in a cached environment only, which may affect data access methods.

Provenance

Source

Spatial Services (DCS), New South Wales government

Collection Method

Programmatically derived from features within the Digital Topographic Database (DTDB).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13 02:41:22.463958

Geography

New South Wales, Australia