Soil Landscapes of the Sydney Region at 1:100,000 Scale

A soil landscape map series for central and eastern NSW integrates soil and topographic features into uniform land management units. The Sydney sheet, published by the NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water, describes soils using the Australian Great Soil Group and Northcote classification systems. Related datasets and an interactive spatial viewer (eSPADE) provide additional soil profile data and reports for the area.

Use Cases

• Assess land suitability for agriculture or development based on integrated soil and landscape units.
• Identify soil and landscape constraints for environmental planning based on described soil materials and classifications.
• Support land management decisions based on units with relatively uniform management requirements.
• Cross-reference soil properties with related datasets like acid sulfate soil risk or hydrogeological landscapes.

Strengths

• Integrates soil and topographic features into single land management units.
• Describes soils using established classification systems: Australian Great Soil Group and Northcote.
• Part of a broader series intended for all of central and eastern NSW.
• Linked to interactive viewers (eSPADE, SEED Map) and related datasets for context.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified; the last metadata update is listed as 2026-05-12.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Mapping based on standard 1:100,000 topographic sheets.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 20:30:53.982343

Geography

Sydney region, New South Wales, Australia