River Basin Maps and Water Monitoring Gauging Station Details (Pinneena Maps)

A series of maps created in 2011 shows water monitoring stations across New South Wales. The maps categorize stations as current with significant data, current without significant data, or discontinued/moved as of March 2011. They incorporate licensed spatial data from NSW Spatial Services, Geoscience Australia, and WaterNSW.

Use Cases

• Analyze historical water monitoring station networks based on the station categories provided.
• Map river basin catchment boundaries based on the incorporated Australia's River Basins 1997 dataset.
• Reference discontinued or relocated gauging station locations for historical flood activity studies.
• Visualize watercourse and waterbody networks using the NSW Hydro Line spatial data referenced.

Strengths

• Maps categorize stations into three distinct operational statuses as of March 2011.
• Incorporates multiple authoritative spatial datasets licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.
• Provides a specific reference date (March 2011) for the station status information.

Limitations

• Data was created as part of a project completed in March 2011 and has not been updated.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Collection Method

Created as part of a major project in 2011, incorporating datasets from Spatial Services, Geoscience Australia, and WaterNSW.

Time Range

Snapshot as of March 2011.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia.