Surveyor-General's Directions

Current Surveyor-General's Directions. The Surveyor-General's Directions provide information about survey practice in New South Wales.

Direction No. 1

(PDF 19.5 MB)

Approved Permanent Marks.

Direction No. 2

(PDF 651.6 KB)

Preparation of Locality Sketch Plans

Download the Locality Sketch Plan Template.zip (ZIP 1.4 MB) which contains a template AutoCAD drawing file (.dwg) of the blank official Locality Sketch Plan (LSP)

Download the Locality Sketch Plan (LSP) template in PDF format LSP Template.pdf (PDF 240.1 KB)

Download the Locality Sketch Plan (LSP) template in TIFF format LSP Template.tiff (TIFF 260.9 KB)

Survey mark status report form – an online form located on our Customer Hub.
To report a change to a survey mark status, location or revise the spatial position of a mark please complete the form on our Customer Hub.

Locality Sketch Plan Submission

Direction No. 3

(PDF 921.5 KB)

This Direction is retired. The full version is available in Historical Survey Documents.

Direction No. 4

(PDF 668.6 KB)

Interpreting the Survey Control Information Management System (SCIMS).

For guidance on how to use SCIMS please use the SCIMS Online Support Guide (PDF 4.2 MB).

SCIMS Online is the web mapping tool that makes SCIMS data available to the public via the Spatial Collaboration Portal

Direction No. 5

(PDF 1.2 MB)

Calibration of Electronic Distance Measuring (EDM) Equipment.

Bankstown Testline is closed. Please use an alternate facility such as Lethbridge Park baseline for your EDM calibration.

EDM Baseline Booking System

EDM Baseline Measurement Reports

EDM Calibration Recording Sheet (PDF 31.5 KB)

Contact Customer Support

Direction No. 6

(PDF 1.2 MB)

Water as a Boundary.

Direction No. 7

(PDF 3.8 MB)

Surveying and Spatial Information Regulation 2017 - Applications – applicable from 01 Jan 2020 (adoption of GDA2020).

Download the Surveyor General’s-Deposited Plan Checklist (PDF 604.0 KB)

Download the GridCalc (GDA2020) for NSW (ZIP 7.88 MB) spreadsheet package from ICSM’s GitHub repository (GridCalc_GDA2020_NSW.xlsm will require Microsoft Excel 2007 or later)

Download the GridCalc (GDA94) for NSW (ZIP 10.8 MB) spreadsheet package from ICSM’s GitHub repository (GridCalc_GDA94_NSW.xlsm will require Microsoft Excel 2007 or later)

Download the Surveyor-General’s approved GDA2020 schedule templates package SSIR2017.zip (ZIP 224.0 KB) which contains an AutoCAD 2007 drawing file (.dwg) and an AutoCAD 2007 DXF (.dxf) drawing both of which contain the schedules approved by the Surveyor-General for use under the SSIR2017 with GDA2020.

Download the Surveyor-General’s approved GDA94 schedule templates package SSIR2017.zip (ZIP 227.2 KB) which contains an AutoCAD 2007 drawing file (.dwg) and an AutoCAD 2007 DXF (.dxf) drawing both of which contain the schedules approved by the Surveyor-General for use under the SSIR2017 with GDA94.

Download the datum line, coordinate schedule and height + height difference flowcharts (ZIP 445.7 KB).

Application for Surveyor General's Approvals and Exemptions - S&SI Regs

AUSPOS Submission

Direction No. 8

(PDF 18.1 MB)

Mining Tenure Surveys

Direction No. 9

(PDF 4.1 MB)

GNSS for Cadastral Surveys

GNSS Validation Bass Hill (PDF 1.0 MB)

GNSS Validation Newcastle (PDF 1.4 MB)

GNSS Validation Wollongong (PDF 1.2 MB)

Direction No. 10

(PDF 507.4 KB)

This Direction is retired. The full version is available in Historical Survey Documents

Direction No. 11

(PDF 4.0 MB)

Preservation of Survey Infrastructure

Application for Surveyor General Approval - Survey Mark(s) Removal

POSI Application Support Guide (PDF 122.1 KB)

Download the Information Sheet Protecting survey marks (PDF 741.2 KB)

Download the POSI Resource Pack (ZIP 9.6 MB)

DBYD_80 BYDA can be used in conjunction with Direction No. 11 when searching for survey infrastructure.
 

Direction No. 12

(PDF 530.4 KB)

Control Surveys and SCIMS 

Technical Specifications for NSW Secondary Control Surveys (PDF 713.8 KB)

Download the Resource Pack (ZIP 2.1 MB)

Direction No. 13

(PDF 327.0 KB)

Aquaculture Lease Surveys

Download the Reference Documents (Zip 196.8 KB)