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Great Soil Group (GSG) Soil Type map of NSW

This map provides soil types across NSW using the Great Soil Group Classification. It uses the best available soils natural resource mapping coverage developed for the Land and Soil Capability (LSC) dataset.

The dominant soil type for each mapping unit was allocated using a modified listing of GSG soil types outlined in Table 1.

Individual map units have been grouped and dissolved according to the Soil Type field to produce the final map.

Data and Resources

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Field Value
Language English
Purpose This map communicates the dominant soil types that occur throughout NSW using a commonly used Australian soil classification system called Great Soil Groups (GSG).
Frequency of change Unknown
Keywords AGRICULTURE,BOUNDARIES,SOIL,SOIL
Metadata Date 2012-07-01
Date of Asset Creation 2012-07-01
License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Equivalent Scale 250000
Vector representation
Record 1
Object type
Surface
Object count
55782
Geospatial Topic
  • Farming
  • Environment
Extent

Dataset extent
Temporal Coverage From 2011-01-04 - 2012-01-07
Datum GDA94 Geographic (Lat\Long)
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Attribution Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) asserts the right to be attributed as author of the original material in the following manner: "© State Government of NSW and Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) 2024"