The NSW Points of Interest (POI) web service allows users to search for and identify the location of features that people may want to see on a map, know about or visit. POI features are derived from features maintained within multiple themes of the NSW Foundation Data Framework (FSDF). The features included in the NSW POI web service are: community, education, medical, recreation, transportation, utility, hydrography, physiography and place.

Community features include ambulance stations, art galleries, cemeteries, convents/monasteries, co-operatives, court houses, crematoriums, embassies, fire stations, gaols, graves, homesteads, libraries, lighthouses, local government chambers, museums, observatories, places of worship, police stations, post offices, nursing homes, retirement villages, rural fire stations, SES facilities, shopping centres, and tourist information centres.

Education features include combined primary-high schools, high schools, preschools, primary schools, research stations, special schools, TAFE colleges, and universities.

Medical features include general hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, children’s hospitals, integrated health services, multi purpose services and community medical centres.

Recreation features include athletics tracks, BMX tracks, camping grounds, caravan parks, clubs, cycling tracks, dog tracks, golf courses, historic sites, lookouts, monuments, motor racing tracks, observation towers, outdoor theatres, parks, picnic areas, racecourses, ship wrecks, showgrounds, sports centres, sports courts, sports fields, swimming pools, target ranges, tourist attractions, training tracks, trotting tracks and zoos .

Transportation features include airports, boat ramps, named cable cars, marinas, railway stations, slipways and transport interchanges.

Utility features include filtration plants, fuel driven power stations, gas facilities, geothermal power stations, hydro power stations, rubbish depots, sewage works, solar power stations, transmission stations and wind power stations.

Physiography and Hydrography include physiography: caves, cliffs, gaps / passes / saddles, headlands, mountains hills / peaks, peninsulas / spits, or plateaus / tablelands. Hydrography: named bays / inlets / basins, beaches, bores, breakwaters, dam walls, islands, locks, manmade water bodies, natural water bodies, reaches / river bends, reefs, rock awash, sandbars / shoals, springs, swamps and waterfalls.

Place Features include cities, towns, suburbs, localities, regions and villages.

Downloads: File Geodatabase

Layer Name	PointOfInterest3D
File Type	Hosted Scene Layer
Theme/s	Place Names, Cultural, Transport, Administrative Boundaries, Positioning, Water, Physiography
Update Frequency	As Required
Contact Details	Contact is via the Spatial Services Customer Hub
Relationship to Themes and Datasets	Place Names, Transport, Cultural, Water, Physiography Themes of the NSW Foundation Spatial Data Framework.
Accuracy	The dataset maintains a positional relationship to, and alignment with, the state's topographic features including natural, physical and cultural. It is divided into the four themes: Cultural, Hydrography, Physiography and Transportation. Each of these themes is made up of various Feature Classes (or layers) that contain the relevant spatial data and their associated attributes and relationships. The data is captured at a variety of scales and accuracy, ranging from 1:500 to 1:250 000 according to the National Mapping Council of Australia, Standards of Map Accuracy (1975). Therefore, the position of the feature instance will be within 0.5mm at map scale for 90% of the well-defined points. That is, 1:500 = 0.25m, 1:2000 = 1m, 1:4000 = 2m, 1:25000 = 12.5m, 1:50000 = 25m and 1:100000 = 50m. A program of positional upgrade (accuracy improvement) is currently underway. Feature heights have been derived from LiDAR elevation sources including 1m and 2m DEMs. The data used to create the DEMs have an accuracy of 0.3m (95% Confidence Interval) vertical and 0.8m (95% Confidence Interval) horizontal. The features vertical accuracy is also function of its horizontal position.
Standards and Specifications	Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) implemented and compatible for consumption by common GIS platforms. Available as either cache or non-cache, depending on client use or requirement.
Aggregators	Spatial Services \| Department of Customer Services
Distributors	Spatial Services \| Department of Customer Services
Dataset Producers and Contributors	Spatial Services \| Department of Customer Services

The data was created as part of a Digital Twin Project

Spatial Services NSW accepts no responsibility for any errors, additions or omissions in the data and provides no guarantees as to the usefulness, accuracy or timeliness of data provided.