NSW Cadastre web service is a dynamic map of cadastral features extracted from the NSW Digital Cadastral Database (DCDB). It provides access to a state wide integrated database and a component of the foundation spatial datasets within the New South Wales. A “cadastre” is an official register of property showing boundaries. The DCDB contains current land titles only. The cadastral feature class layers provided through this web service includes: • Large Rural Plan Extent • Rural Plan Extent • Section Extent • Plan Extent • Lot • Plan Extent Labels • Section Extent Labels • Lot Labels The available attributes for point queries are: • Lot/Section/Plan string • CadID This web service allows users to easily integrate NSW Cadastre into Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) compliant spatial platforms and applications. The NSW Cadastral web service can be used for resource management, environmental management, land use planning, agriculture management, emergency management and recreational purposes This service can be used to aggregate information for analytical purposes. Cadastral boundary data in combination with geo-coded address data, imagery, demographic information and agency specific business information underpins the ability to perform high quality spatial analysis.

The NSW Property web service provides access to a polygon feature class that spatially represents an aspatial property description as provided by the Valuer Generals Department in their ValNet database. The property features provided through this web service includes: • Large Rural Property • Rural Property • Semi-Rural Property • Urban Property The available attributes for point queries are: • Address string • House Number • PropID No labels are displayed. This web service allows users to easily integrate NSW Property into Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) compliant spatial platforms and applications. NSW Property web service is used to spatially locate the property as defined by the Valuer General’s ValNet database. A property contains all address and the property ID related to it. This service can be used to aggregate information for analytical purposes. Property data in combination with geo-coded address data, imagery, demographic information and agency specific business information underpins the ability to perform high quality spatial.

The NSW Administrative Boundaries Web Service is a dynamic map of administrative and property boundaries. Administrative Areas Boundaries depict a polygon feature class within the NSW Digital Cadastral Database maintained by LPI. The administrative boundaries provided through this web service includes: Counties, Suburbs, Parishes, Local Government Areas, State Forests, National Parks, State Electoral Districts. For detailed information, for each individual dataset contained in this web services, please see the Digital Cadastre Database Dictionary published at http://www.lpi.nsw.gov.au/mapping_and_imagery/spatial_data. This web service allows users to easily integrate NSW Administrative Boundaries into OGC compliant spatial platforms and applications. Administrative Boundaries can be used to aggregate information for analytical purposes and analyse time series trends. Administrative boundary data in combination with geo-coded address data, demographic information and agency specific business information underpins the ability to perform high quality spatial analysis.

Imagery is the product created from the use of airborne, space borne or terrestrial sensors. These technologies image the surface of the Earth to allow for the visualisation of land surface features. Imagery includes data sourced from satellite, aircraft and vehicle mounted sensors. These technologies have a range of capabilities that includes but is not limited to, the ability to record multispectral and hyperspectral data and produce products such as orthorectified mosaics and stereo-viewable imagery.

Cadastral Features are made up of the following data held in the NSW Digital Cadastral Database (DCDB). Easement: depicts a right, attached to land (the dominant tenement), to use other land (the servient tenement) for a specified non-exclusive purpose known to the law, e.g. right of carriageway, easement to drain water etc. – however the law also recognises an easement in favour of a statutory authority without a dominant tenement, described as an ‘easement in gross’. Road Corridor: represents the spatial extent of the legal road network. Road Centreline: represents a line that forms the centreline of cadastral road corridors.

Spot Height is a point feature class representing individual points on the earth’s surface, the elevation of which has been related to a datum by ground or photogrammetric survey. It is a part of the NSW Digital Topographic Database (DTDB).

Addressing is the specific identification of a fixed location (for example, a plot of land, building, part of a building, way of access or other construction) which is represented by a structured arrangement of place names. It may be further detailed with the inclusion of other valuable attributes including geocodes.

The NSW Address Location Service web service allows the user to enter an address and pinpoint the location of that address. The NSW Address Location Service is derived from the Geocoded Urban and Rural Address System (GURAS) database. This web service allows users to easily integrate NSW addressing information into spatial platforms and applications. The addressing web service provides users with a unique and unambiguous identification of an address site and its location within NSW. The ability to identify the location of an address supports a wide range of business functions including: the delivery of products and services, public safety, communication and socio-economic and demographic analysis. The GURAS database is the authoritative property addressing system for NSW.

Soil Landscapes comprise of the Soil Landscape Series mapping based on standard 1:100,000 and 1:250,000 topographic sheets and Soil and Land Resource Series mapping using catchment boundaries or other areas of state significance. Mapping and accompanying reports provide an inventory of soil and landscape properties of their area and identify major soil and landscape qualities and constraints. The ‘Soil Landscape’ concept integrates soil and topographic features into single units with relatively uniform land management requirements. Soils are described in terms of Australian Soil Classification, Great Soil Group and Northcote classification systems. Key soil materials are also identified for the Soil Landscape Series.

A land parcel is an area of land with defined boundaries, under unique ownership for specific property rights or interests. A property is something that is capable of being owned, in the form of real property (land). The interest can involve physical aspects, such as the use of land, or conceptual rights, such as a right to use the land in the future. The NSW cadastre is an up to date parcel based land information system which contains a unique identifier which can be linked of interests in land (i.e. rights, restrictions and responsibilities). The cadastre includes a geometric definition of land parcels linked to other records, such as land titles, describing the nature of the interests, the ownership or control of those interests, and often the value of the parcel and its improvements. A cadastral product or service visualises the boundaries of land parcels, often buildings on land, the parcel identifier, and basic topographic features. The 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.