City of Melbourne Footpath Gradient Measurements

A shapefile containing gradient measurements for all public footpaths in the City of Melbourne, including streets, laneways, and park walkways. The data expresses gradient as section distance and percentage slope, provided by the City of Melbourne Open Data team and last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Map footpath gradient percentages to identify steep sections for accessibility planning
• Analyze gradient data for streets and laneways to inform safe mobility infrastructure projects
• Use section distance and gradient attributes for urban planning and city reactivation studies
• Integrate footpath slope data with eventsplanner tools for route accessibility assessment

Strengths

• Covers all public footpaths within the City of Melbourne jurisdiction
• Includes multiple geographic data formats: SHP, JSON, CSV, and GEOJSON
• Released under a permissive Creative Commons Attribution (cc-by) license
• Data was updated in March 2026, indicating recent maintenance

Limitations

• No row count or sample data provided to assess dataset scale
• Specific column names and data structure are unknown, complicating immediate analysis
• Geographic scope is limited to a single municipality, the City of Melbourne

Provenance

Source

City of Melbourne Open Data

Collection Method

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Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-20.

Geography

City of Melbourne, Australia