State Heritage Register Centroids for Places and Buildings in New South Wales
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Description
A point dataset maintained by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water on behalf of the Heritage Council of NSW. It applies to listings on the State Heritage Register under the Heritage Act, 1977, covering places, buildings, works, relics, moveable objects, precincts, or land. The data is available in ESRI shapefile format and was last updated on May 13, 2026.
Use Cases
Map the spatial distribution of heritage-listed sites based on point locations.
Analyze heritage site density relative to urban development zones using the geospatial format.
Integrate heritage site locations with other land-use datasets for environmental planning.
Perform proximity analysis for new construction projects near protected heritage precincts.
Strengths
Data is provided under a CC-BY-4.0 license, allowing for broad reuse.
Maintained by a government department (DCCEEW) on behalf of the statutory Heritage Council of NSW.
Covers multiple types of heritage assets including places, buildings, works, relics, and precincts.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
Freshness should be verified as the last update timestamp is in the future (2026-05-13).
Provenance
Source
NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) on behalf of the Heritage Council of NSW.
Collection Method
Administratively maintained register under the Heritage Act, 1977.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-05-13 05:00:48.678398
Geography
New South Wales, Australia
Data is provided in ESRI shapefile format, requiring GIS software for full use.