New South Wales Emergency Service Facility Locations

A point feature dataset representing the locations of emergency service facilities in New South Wales, Australia. The dataset includes State Emergency Service (SES) headquarters and is updated daily. It is provided by Spatial Services, a business unit of the Department of Customer Service NSW.

Use Cases

• Mapping emergency service coverage based on facility locations
• Analyzing proximity of emergency resources to communities
• Planning disaster response logistics based on SES station positions
• Integrating emergency facility data with cadastral parcel maps

Strengths

• Data is updated daily, suggesting high currency
• Aligns with the national GDA2020 spatial standard, improving accuracy and compatibility
• Points are positioned within cadastral parcels, providing precise location context

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to NSW government sources

Provenance

Source

Spatial Services (DCS)

Collection Method

Historically captured as part of the NSW topographic mapping program

Freshness

Daily update frequency

Geography

New South Wales, Australia