NSW Emergency Service Facilities Point Locations in GDA2020

Spatial Services provides a point feature dataset representing the locations of emergency service facilities in New South Wales, Australia. The data includes fire stations, police stations, and SES stations, with centroids positioned within their cadastral parcels. It is updated daily and has been migrated to the GDA2020 coordinate system for improved accuracy and compatibility.

Use Cases

• Mapping emergency service coverage gaps based on facility point locations.
• Analyzing proximity of communities to fire stations based on cadastral parcel positioning.
• Integrating emergency facility data with other geospatial layers for disaster planning.
• Visualizing the distribution of rural fire service stations across NSW.

Strengths

• Updated to the GDA2020 coordinate system, improving positional accuracy.
• Data update frequency is daily, suggesting high potential currency.
• Explicitly includes fire stations for rural communities as a defined feature type.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Spatial Services, a business unit of the Department of Customer Service NSW.

Collection Method

Historically captured as part of the NSW topographic mapping program.

Freshness

Updated daily; last platform record update was 2026-05-18.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia.