The Cadastral Fabric is made up of the following features within the NSW Digital Cadastral Database (DCDB). Lot: depicts a parcel of land created on a survey plan. Each lot may be represented by standard lots, standard part lots, strata or stratum. Each lot has a lot number, section number, plan lot area, plan number, plan label, ITS title status, and stratum label. 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. Unidentified: represents a parcel of land that cannot be identified. Crown land, vested, dedicated and severed land may be included in this category as well as Old System lots for which lot/DP identification cannot be found. This dataset also identifies the locations of 100ft wide reserves, ACT regions, closed roads, crossings, surveyed areas, and un-surveyed areas. Water Feature: represents tidal, non-tidal and ocean waters which form a cadastral boundary.

Property data is a polygon feature class that spatially represents an aspatial property description as provided by Property NSW in their Valnet database. Properties are divided into 3 categories: ‘Property’ (Complete), ‘Incomplete’ and ‘Other’.

The State Border is a product dataset created from the LGA dataset which depicts the extent of NSW as described by the gazetted boundaries of Local Government Areas.

Spatial Service’s standard imagery capture program covers the entire state of NSW. Standard coverage imagery is captured and processed at a 50cm Ground Sample Distance (GSD) and is available as either 5km x 5km image modules or mosaicked to the extent of a 1:100,000 mapsheet.

A NSW Native Vegetation Extent layer prepared for the National Land and Water Resources Audit 2008. This represents native vegetation extent at 2006. A number of other useful intermediate products are also available.

The Administrative Boundaries theme is a collection of legislative, regulatory, political, maritime and general administrative boundaries sourced from local and state boundary datasets.

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.

Foundation spatial data is defined as “the authoritative geographic information that underpins, or can add significant value to, any other information. It supports evidence-based decisions across government, industry and the community”1. Criteria has been developed to determine non-foundation from foundation. To be classified as foundation, the spatial data must contain one or more of the following characteristics to be deemed ‘foundation’: • be geospatial • essential for public safety and wellbeing • critical for a national and state or government function • contribute significantly to economic, social and environmental sustainability. NSW has adopted the ten data themes identified by ANZLIC. These are: 1. Administrative Boundaries 2. Land Parcel and Property 3. Geocoded Addressing 4. Transport 5. Positioning 6. Place Names 7. Elevation and Depth 8. Imagery 9. Water 10. Land Cover.

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.

Dataset of Land Use between June 2000 and June 2007 for the whole of New South Wales. Land use polygons are classified to both NSW classification (LUMAP) and National standards (ALUM, Australian Land Use and Management). The ALUM classification is based upon the modified Baxter and Russell classification and presented according to the specifications contained in Baxter and Russell Classification. The date of the data set is set as the land use occurring at the time the satellite imagery was acquired, which can range from 1999 to 2006. The V2 dataset was updated in May 2011 to include values in the attribute fields of Source, Source Date, Source Scale, Reliability and LU Mapping Date and is ALUM Version 7 compatible.