Fuzzy Extent Water Area Polygons for New South Wales, Australia

A polygon feature class from Spatial Services (DCS) representing the approximate bounds of formally named water features with indistinct extents. The dataset includes features categorized as Bay Like, River Like Area, and Sea Like, and forms the NSW component of the Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric. It was last updated on 2026-04 08 20:07:47.346155.

Use Cases

• Modeling water security and resource management based on the defined water feature extents.
• Supporting emergency management and hazard mitigation efforts with geospatial water body data.
• Contributing to environmental planning and monitoring using the hydrological geospatial fabric.
• Informing natural resource assessment and climate change studies with categorized water features.

Strengths

• Data is explicitly aligned to the Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric, a critical national system input.
• Features are categorized into three distinct types (Bay Like, River Like Area, Sea Like) based on formal naming.
• Last update timestamp is precisely provided: 2026-04-08 20:07:47.346155.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The service is scheduled for retirement and uses the GDA94 spatial reference, which may cause misalignment in GDA2020 environments.

Provenance

Source

Spatial Services (DCS), New South Wales Government.

Collection Method

Hosted feature layer from an ArcGIS REST service.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-08 20:07:47.346155; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia.