New South Wales Airport Runway Geospatial Features
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Description
New South Wales, Australia contains a geospatial dataset defining airport runway features, including landing grounds, perimeters, and centerlines. Spatial Services, a business unit of the Department of Customer Service NSW, produced this hosted feature layer, initially published in February 2020. The dataset is part of the state's Foundation Spatial Data Framework Transport Theme.
Use Cases
Analyzing runway centerline geometry for airport capacity or flight path studies.
Mapping landing ground polygons for infrastructure asset management.
Integrating runway perimeter features with other transport network datasets for regional planning.
Strengths
Data accuracy is defined per map scale, with 90% of well-defined points within 0.5mm at scale (e.g., 0.25m at 1:500).
Part of a structured state-wide Foundation Spatial Data Framework (FSDF).
Includes three defined feature classes: Landing Ground, Runway Perimeter, and Runway Centreline.
Limitations
Spatial reference is GDA94, which is scheduled for retirement and may cause misalignment in GDA2020 environments.
Positional accuracy varies significantly based on source scale, from 0.25m to 50m.
An ongoing upgrade program indicates historical data may have inconsistent accuracy.
Provenance
Source
Spatial Services, Department of Customer Service NSW.
Collection Method
Captured from the best available source data at scales ranging from 1:500 to 1:250,000.
Time Range
Initial publication date 06/02/2020.
Freshness
Data currency is listed as 01/01/3000, indicating a nominal future date; update frequency is 'Other'.
Geography
Full state coverage of New South Wales, Australia.
This GDA94 service is flagged as retiring; users must transition to the new GDA2020 service. The spatial reference may cause misalignment in modern coordinate systems.