Townsville Street Library Locations for Community Recovery

100 publicly accessible book-sharing locations were installed across Townsville as a key 2020 Community Recovery initiative. This dataset, published by the Townsville City Council, provides the geospatial locations of these Street Libraries. The data was last updated on 2026-04-26 and is available in multiple geospatial file formats.

Use Cases

• Map the distribution of community assets based on the geospatial location data.
• Analyze the reach of a public book-sharing initiative based on the installed library locations.
• Plan future community infrastructure based on the existing network of 100 Street Libraries.

Strengths

• Contains data on 100 specific Street Library installations.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license by the authoritative Townsville City Council.
• Available in multiple standard geospatial formats (e.g., GeoJSON, ESRI Shapefile).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Townsville City Council

Collection Method

Likely collected as part of the installation and registration process for the 2020 Community Recovery initiative.

Time Range

Initiative launched in 2020; data reflects installations up to the last update.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-26 16:33:18.160353; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Townsville, Australia.