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NSW Foundation Spatial Data Framework - Place Names - Geographical Names Register Place Names

The Geographical Names Register (GNR) is a database of the authoritative place names in NSW. Since its inception in 1966 the Geographical Names Board has recorded information in relation to NSW geographical names within the GNR. There are currently over eighty thousand place names recorded in the GNR. On average, 200 new place names are assigned and added to this database every year.

Every record in this database has the provision for over thirty attributes ranging from spatial location information in respect to co-ordinate, map tile, parish etc. to cultural information on history, meaning and origin. The GNR also holds official information such as the name’s status and feature type, and temporal information dealing with the gazettal date of the name.

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Title NSW Foundation Spatial Data Framework - Place Names - Geographical Names Register Place Names
Type Dataset
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution
Data Status active
Update Frequency other
Landing Page https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/en/dataset/1c622aed-3602-4f5c-8d2c-3efbf862b730
Date Published 2018-10-19
Date Updated 2018-10-19
Contact Point
Department of Customer Service
SS-SpatialOperations@finance.nsw.gov.au
Temporal Coverage 19/10/2018
Geospatial Coverage New South Wales (NSW81093)
Jurisdiction New South Wales Government
Data Portal Data.NSW
Publisher/Agency Department of Customer Service