City of Greater Geelong provides parcel boundaries and statistics for properties with retail shops from its 2011 retail district inspections. The dataset includes attributes like shop names, addresses, vacancy counts, and infrastructure details such as benches, bike racks, and parking spaces. It is available in multiple geospatial formats including GEOJSON and SHP under a CC-BY-4.0 license.
Use Cases
- Analyze retail vacancy rates based on the Vacancies attribute.
- Map commercial property distribution using the NumbComml and NumbRetail counts.
- Assess public amenity provision based on features like Benches, StreetTree, and PublicToil.
- Study parking availability for retail areas using OnStreetPa and OffStreetP data.
Strengths
- Includes 25 specific attributes per property, from identifiers to infrastructure counts.
- Data is provided in multiple standard geospatial formats (GEOJSON, SHP, WMS, WFS).
- Explicitly licensed as CC-BY-4.0, allowing for broad reuse.
Limitations
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data is from a 2011 audit; freshness should be verified for current applications.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- City of Greater Geelong
- Collection Method
- Collected during the city's retail district inspections.
- Time Range
- 2011
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-14 20:50:27.595690; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- City of Greater Geelong, Australia