A dataset listing public payphone locations across Australia, maintained by Telstra. The data is routinely downloaded and updated from a public map developed by Telstra. Attribute information includes phone number, street address, locality, state, postcode, latitude, and longitude.
Use Cases
- Map public infrastructure accessibility based on payphone locations and addresses.
- Analyze geographic distribution of telecommunications services based on state and locality data.
- Perform spatial analysis for urban planning based on latitude and longitude coordinates.
- Validate or augment address databases using the provided street address and postcode information.
Strengths
- Includes precise geographic coordinates (latitude and longitude) for spatial analysis.
- Contains detailed location attributes such as phone number, full address, and postcode.
- Routinely updated from the authoritative source (Telstra's public map).
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 the Telstra network coverage.
Provenance
- Source
- Telstra, via Tasmania Government's The List Data.
- Collection Method
- Routinely downloaded and updated from a public map developed and maintained by Telstra.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 21:24:45.498494; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Australia