ACT Playground Locations with Asset Attributes and Management Details

ACTGOV Playground Area Assets is a polygon dataset showing the locations of playground areas in the Australian Capital Territory. The dataset is maintained by the ACT Government's City and Environment Directorate and includes attributes such as location description, suburb, ownership, maintenance responsibility, asset sub-type, surface type, fencing, age suitability, and last upgrade date. Assets are captured through a works-as-executed handover process or field audits and are available in multiple geospatial formats.

Use Cases

• Map public playground distribution based on suburb and location description attributes.
• Analyze playground features and safety based on surface type, fencing, and age suitability data.
• Assess asset management and upgrade cycles using ownership, maintenance, and last upgrade date fields.

Strengths

• Dataset is updated to a future date (2026-04-04), suggesting planned maintenance.
• Attributes include specific details like surface type (e.g., Rubber, Tanbark) and asset sub-type (Mix of Structure and Natural).
• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats (GPKG, GEOJSON, KML) for interoperability.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au, focusing only on ACT Government-managed assets.

Provenance

Source

ACT Government Geospatial Data Catalogue (ACTmapi), authored by cityoperationsactgov.

Collection Method

Assets are captured and maintained through the works as executed (WAE) handover process or field audits.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-04 02:50:55.243174

Geography

Australian Capital Territory, Australia.