NSW Land Parcel and Property Theme: Cadastral Boundaries for New South Wales

NSW Land Parcel and Property Theme data is a polygon feature class representing property descriptions from the Valnet database. The dataset is updated daily and maintains positional alignment with other cadastral datasets. It is published by Spatial Services, a business unit of the Department of Customer Service NSW.

Use Cases

• Visualizing property boundaries based on polygon feature class data.
• Integrating property data with other spatial datasets based on the foundational spatial data framework.
• Analyzing property categories (complete, incomplete, other) as defined in the description.

Strengths

• Updated daily, as stated in the description.
• Aligned with the national GDA2020 standard, improving accuracy and compatibility.
• Positional accuracy is defined relative to map scale, e.g., within 0.25m at 1:500 scale.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au, being specific to New South Wales.

Provenance

Source

Spatial Services (DCS)

Collection Method

Digitized from the best available cadastral mapping, sourced from Property NSW's Valnet database.

Freshness

Daily update frequency.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia