NSW Land Parcel and Property Theme - Road

NSW Land Parcel and Property Theme Road is a polygon feature that represents dedicated public roads. Parcel polygons are defined by a series of boundary lines that store recorded dimensions as attributes in the lines table. It visualises these boundaries of land parcels, often buildings on land, the parcel identifier, and basic topographic features.

NSW Land Parcel and Property Theme provides the foundation fabric of land ownership.  It consists of the digital cadastral database and associated parcel and property information.

NSW Land Parcel and Property Theme Road is made up of the following features within the NSW Land Parcel and Property Theme.

Cadastral Fabric – Road

Road: Represents dedicated public roads which are open ways for the passage of vehicles, persons or animals on land. The road dataset includes public roads in use. Each road type has a section number, plan number, plan label, ITS title status, road type, road width or Crown/Council width, lot number, and stratum label.

Land and property data underpins the economic, social and environmental fabric of NSW and is used, amongst other things, to:

• Secure tenure for access to capital.
• Define allowable use of land.
• Manage native title, nature conservation, heritage, protection, defence, and disaster management
• Improve infrastructure and property development planning.
• Inform water and carbon accounting programs.

Spatial Services continuously updates the Land Parcel and Property theme with information sourced from relevant stakeholders and custodians. The majority of updates to the datasets in this theme originate from subdivision, registration and gazettal activity.

The data is up to date to within 10 working days from when a plan is lodged at NSW Land Registry Services. Data is also sourced from Crown Lands, the Office of Environment and Heritage, the Aboriginal Land Council, Local Land Services, the Electoral Commission and NSW Trade and Investment.

The Cadastral upgrade program commenced in 2007 and is ongoing, improving the spatial accuracy of different feature classes. Upgrades are carried out in consultation with the relevant Local Government Authority and are further facilitated through the incorporation of data provided by external agencies. Upgrade positional accuracy varies across the state and generally ranges from less than 5m from true position in rural areas to less than 0.2m from true position in urban areas, dependent on the survey control available.

Data quality for both Cadastral Maintenance and Cadastral Upgrade activities are assured through specification compliance and data topology rules. The client delivery database is automatically updated each evening with the changes that occurred that day in the maintenance environment.