Runway: Aircraft Landing and Take-off Paths in New South Wales, Australia

Runway is a line feature class defining straight paths used for landing and take-off of aircraft. The dataset includes features for Landing Ground, Runway Perimeter, and Runway Centreline, published by Spatial Services, a business unit of the Department of Customer Service NSW. It was initially published on 06/02/2020 and aligns with the national GDA2020 geodetic standard.

Use Cases

• Mapping airport infrastructure based on the defined Runway Centreline and Perimeter features.
• Analyzing regional aviation accessibility using the Landing Ground location data.
• Integrating transport network models with the NSW Transport Theme foundational spatial data.

Strengths

• Adheres to the national GDA2020 geodetic standard, improving accuracy and compatibility.
• Accuracy is documented per map scale standards, ranging from 0.25m at 1:500 scale to 50m at 1:100,000 scale.
• Part of the foundational NSW Transport Theme, suggesting integration with other official spatial datasets.

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.

Provenance

Source

Spatial Services, Department of Customer Service NSW

Collection Method

Captured from the best available source at scales ranging from 1:500 to 1:250,000.

Freshness

Data currency is listed as 01/01/3000, which is likely a placeholder; update frequency is listed as 'Other'.

Geography

Full State of New South Wales, Australia