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

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 14/08/2025

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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
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/1c622aed-3602-4f5c-8d2c-3efbf862b730
Remote Last Updated 19/10/2018
Contact Point
Department of Customer Service
SS-SpatialOperations@finance.nsw.gov.au
Reference Period 19/10/2018 - 19/10/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    147.0179,
    -32.1618
  ],
  "type": "Point"
}
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This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "NSW Foundation Spatial Data Framework - Place Names - Geographical Names Register Place Names". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-nsw-foundation-spatial-data-framework-place-names-geographical-names-register-place-names