Ballarat Community Centres and Halls from 2012 Infrastructure Audit

Ballarat, Australia, contains a dataset of community centres and halls. The data was collected by the City of Ballarat during a Community Infrastructure Audit in 2012. The dataset is provided under a CC-BY-4.0 license and was last updated on 2026-04-26.

Use Cases

• Map community facility locations based on the geospatial data formats (KML, SHP, GEOJSON).
• Analyze the distribution of public halls and centres within Ballarat based on the described geographic scope.
• Support community service planning based on the inventory of infrastructure from the 2012 audit.

Strengths

• Data originates from an official municipal source, the City of Ballarat.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats (KML, SHP, GEOJSON, WMS, WFS, CSV) for flexibility.
• Has a clear, open license (CC-BY-4.0).

Limitations

• Data collection date is from 2012; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

City of Ballarat

Collection Method

Collected from Community Infrastructure Audit 2012.

Time Range

2012

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-26 16:42:49.064607; freshness should be verified

Geography

Ballarat, Australia