Data licensing & attributionEvery dataset, its licence, and the credit it requires.
iSpy Property builds each report from government and third-party data. Most of it is published as open data under a Creative Commons Attribution licence, which lets us reuse it as long as we credit the publisher. This page records the publisher, the licence, and the exact attribution each source requires. Where a source is provided under commercial, approved-use, or register-specific terms, we say so plainly rather than assume an open licence.
Last reviewed 16 July 2026. 9 sources are marked Licence under review while we confirm terms directly with the provider.
Spatial Services, a business unit of the Department of Customer Service NSW
Open licence- NSW address point and property identity lookup (NSW Point)
- Digital cadastre — lot, plan and parcel boundaries
- Required attribution
- © State of New South Wales (Spatial Services, a business unit of the Department of Customer Service NSW).
Foundation address and cadastre data published through the NSW Foundation Spatial Data Framework.
Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure (DPHI)
Open licence- Land zoning
- Floor space ratio
- Height of building
- Minimum lot size
- Heritage (local environmental plan items and conservation areas)
- Land reservation acquisition
- Flood planning
- Acid sulfate soils
- Protection overlays (drinking-water catchment, wetlands, scenic and more)
- Transport Oriented Development precincts
- Development, complying-development, construction and occupation certificate records (NSW Planning Portal public API)
- Required attribution
- © State of New South Wales (Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure).
Environmental planning instrument spatial layers and NSW Planning Portal application records.
NSW Rural Fire Service
Open licence- Required attribution
- © State of New South Wales (NSW Rural Fire Service).
Bush fire prone land mapping certified by the NSW Rural Fire Service.
Transport for NSW
Open licence- Public transport stops (train, bus, ferry and light rail)
- Required attribution
- © State of New South Wales (Transport for NSW).
Public transport stop data from the Transport for NSW Open Data Hub.
NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research
Open licence- Recorded crime statistics by suburb and local government area
- Required attribution
- © State of New South Wales (NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research).
Recorded criminal incident data published by BOCSAR.
Valuer General of New South Wales
Open licence- Property sales information
- Required attribution
- © State of New South Wales (Valuer General).
Bulk property sales information published by the Valuer General.
NSW Department of Education
Open licence- Public school intake (catchment) zones
- Required attribution
- © State of New South Wales (Department of Education).
Government school enrolment catchment boundaries.
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Open licence- Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA) — Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage
- Required attribution
- © Commonwealth of Australia (Australian Bureau of Statistics).
Commonwealth statistics used for neighbourhood socio-economic context.
Geoscape Australia
Licence under review- Predictive address autocomplete used in the address search
- Licence
- Geoscape commercial API terms (under confirmation)
- Required attribution
- Address data © Geoscape Australia.
Geoscape's Predictive Address service is a commercial API with its own end-user terms rather than an open licence. Exact attribution and reuse terms are being confirmed with Geoscape before launch.
Heritage NSW
Licence under review- Aboriginal Heritage Information Management System (AHIMS) site search
- Licence
- AHIMS approved-use terms (under confirmation)
- Required attribution
- AHIMS search results provided by Heritage NSW under approved-use terms.
AHIMS data is provided under specific approved-use conditions under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974, not an open licence. Use and display terms are tracked and being confirmed with Heritage NSW.
NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) and its agencies
Licence under review- Biodiversity Values Map
- Coastal management areas
- NPWS bushfire (fire) history
- Licence
- NSW environmental dataset terms (under confirmation)
- Required attribution
- © State of New South Wales (Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water).
Published as NSW government spatial data; the specific licence for each environmental layer is being confirmed with the department before we assert a Creative Commons basis.
NSW Environment Protection Authority
Licence under review- Contaminated land public register
- Licence
- EPA contaminated land register terms (under confirmation)
- Required attribution
- © State of New South Wales (Environment Protection Authority).
The contaminated land record of notices carries register-specific reuse conditions that are being confirmed with the EPA.
Heritage NSW
Licence under review- Licence
- State Heritage Register terms (under confirmation)
- Required attribution
- © State of New South Wales (Heritage NSW).
State-level heritage listing data; the reuse licence is being confirmed with Heritage NSW.
Subsidence Advisory NSW
Licence under review- Proclaimed mine subsidence districts
- Licence
- Mine subsidence district terms (under confirmation)
- Required attribution
- © State of New South Wales (Subsidence Advisory NSW).
Proclaimed district boundaries; the reuse licence is being confirmed with Subsidence Advisory NSW.
Spatial Services, a business unit of the Department of Customer Service NSW
Licence under review- Aerial and base-map imagery shown in report maps
- Licence
- NSW imagery terms (under confirmation)
- Required attribution
- Imagery © State of New South Wales (Spatial Services).
Base-map and aerial imagery previews carry specific NSW imagery terms distinct from the open foundation datasets; these are being confirmed before launch.
NSW Land Registry Services
Licence under review- Title and registered-interest reference (pointer only — the title itself is not republished)
- Licence
- Regulated title information — not republished
- Required attribution
- Title information © NSW Land Registry Services.
iSpy Property points to where the legal title and registered interests are held; it does not reproduce title register content, which is regulated and separately licensed. A conveyancer orders and interprets the title.
Individual NSW councils
Licence under review- Council development application records and documents obtained by request
- Licence
- Per-council terms (under confirmation)
- Required attribution
- Development application records © the relevant NSW council.
Individual councils publish development application registers under their own terms; reuse conditions vary by council and are confirmed per council as records are obtained.
