Urban Furniture Inventory for Large Montreal Parks

An inventory of urban furniture in large parks, including benches, barbecues, bollards, sports equipment, drinking fountains, trash cans, bike racks, and picnic tables. The dataset is primarily represented as georeferenced points, with most data last updated in 2013. It is provided by the Government and Municipalities of Québec.

Use Cases

• Map the spatial distribution of georeferenced points for benches and picnic tables to analyze park amenity density.
• Conduct proximity analysis between different furniture types like drinking fountains and sports equipment to assess park design.
• Use the georeferenced points for barbecues and trash cans to model service coverage and optimize maintenance routes.

Strengths

• Data includes multiple specific furniture types such as benches, barbecues, bollards, and sports equipment.
• Most inventory records were updated in 2013, providing a historical baseline.
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including SHP and GEOJSON for flexible analysis.

Limitations

• Primary data update was in 2013, making the inventory potentially outdated for current conditions.
• No row count or sample data is available to assess dataset scale or completeness.

Provenance

Source

Government and Municipalities of Québec

Collection Method

Inventory compilation, likely from municipal surveys or park management records.

Time Range

Most data updated in 2013.

Freshness

Last platform update was 2026-03 25, but core data is from 2013.

Geography

Large parks in Montreal, Québec.