On-Street Parking Meter Locations and Payment Features

City of Melbourne Open Data provides a dataset of on-street car parking meters, detailing their locations and payment capabilities. The data includes attributes such as meter model type and acceptance of credit card or tap-and-go facilities. The dataset is available in multiple geospatial formats including SHP and GeoJSON.

Use Cases

• Map parking meter locations and analyze spatial distribution of model types.
• Identify payment infrastructure gaps by filtering for meters that lack credit card or tap-and-go facilities.
• Integrate meter location data with traffic or urban planning datasets using the provided geospatial formats.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple interoperable formats including SHP, JSON, CSV, and GeoJSON.
• Published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license, permitting flexible reuse.
• Maintained by the City of Melbourne, an authoritative municipal source.

Limitations

• The dataset is subject to disruption due to an ongoing parking system upgrade project.
• Specific data volume metrics like row count and column details are unavailable.
• Sample data is not provided to preview structure or completeness.

Provenance

Source

City of Melbourne Open Data

Collection Method

Collected by the city council from its on-street parking meter infrastructure.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated March 20, 2026.

Geography

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia