AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Butterfly biodiversity survey 2017

The Our City's Little Gems study observed butterfly biodiversity and flower-butterfly interactions in the City of Melbourne between January - March 2017. The Our City's Little Gems project is a direct extension of The Little Things that Run the City project that assessed the insect biodiversity of green spaces in the City of Melbourne. The Little Things that Run the City project did not originally feature butterflies, so the Our City’s Little Gems project was created to solely look at butterfly-flower interactions in our city. Please use the detailed legend for all species, environmental and location information. All species records are butterflies. All records have coordinates.

Tags: biodiversity, butterflies, data, gardens, insects, nature, science, urban-nature
Organization: City of Melbourne Open Data
BioBlitz 2016

Melbourne BioBlitz is one of the City of Melbourne’s major citizen science programs, where experts and members of the community work together to discover, document, and learn about the species that call our city home. 



The most recent Melbourne BioBlitz took place over 24 hours on 4 and 5 March 2016. During the BioBlitz 744 members of the public joined 27 activities which included spotting birds at Royal Park, identifying insects at Westgate Park, and searching for plants in the Fitzroy Gardens.



The City of Melbourne has analysed the data collected in past BioBlitzes and is now building a baseline dataset against which future changes in biodiversity can be measured and evaluated.

Tags: bioblitz, biodiversity, citizen-science, fauna, flora, species, wildlife
Organization: City of Melbourne Open Data
Road segments, with surface type

Polygons representing different types of surface information, i.e. - Carriageway, footpath, kerb, channel, median, nature strip and tramway.



Polygons representing different types of surface information, i.e. - Carriageway, footpath, kerb, channel, median, nature strip and tramway.

Field descriptions: 

assetno - unique council reference integer. 

material – description of polygon surface material.

instaldate - installation date of surface. 

condition – visual condition of asset rated 1 to 5(1 failed and 5 good condition)

area_sqm – Square meter area value of polygon. 

length – running length of asset in metres

width – average width of asset in metres

type – road surface type i.e. carriageway, footpath, median etc

the_geom - A Well Known Text (WKT v1.1) representation of the geometry

Tags: accessibility, area, cityreactivation, engineering, polygons, road, safemobility, surface, surfaces
Organization: City of Melbourne Open Data
Tree canopies 2015 (Urban Forest)

Tree canopy within City of Melbourne mapped using 2015 aerial photos and LiDAR. The canopy polygons represent actual tree canopy extents on both private and public property across the city. he data is considered accurate for 2015. Changes in tree canopy are expected to have occurred since that time.

Tags: green, heat-island, trees, urbanforest, vegetation
Organization: City of Melbourne Open Data
Insect Records in the City of Melbourne (from Little Things that Run the City)

Insect Records in the City of Melbourne from the Little Things that Run the City Project. This data identifies what individual species were found in the Little Things that Run the City Project and is not a count of all species recorded. This data was obtained from Luis Mata, a postdoctoral researcher at RMIT. The data is owned by the City of Melbourne and RMIT. The project started in October 2014 with the first survey of insects for this project in parks and gardens in the City of Melbourne. More surveys were conducted between January and March 2015. Insect species were sorted and identified from April to September 2015. This is the raw data for the report that was published in late 2016.



Some records are lacking information on the species classifcation level, and may have the correct genus information accompanied with a number in the identification notes column - this donates species 1, 2, or 3 of that genus where the species could not be identfiifed. All records lack a species name as this was not provided to the City of Melbourne in the original dataset.

Tags: animals, biodiversity, environment, insects, parks, research, science
Organization: City of Melbourne Open Data
Pedestrian Network

This dataset contains a line network representing pedestrian walking routes throughout the City of Melbourne.
It features links to additional land subdivisions and  incorporates additional elements/attributes. The network has been created with the intent to assist interested stakeholder in multiple modelling tasks including catchment analysis and route analysis.

The network emulates pedestrian behaviour, by allowing free movement in low traffic areas while penalising busy crossings with traffic lights.

The network also connects to the City of Melbourne property layer through property centroids and connectors for all the different properties in the dataset.

The download is a zip file containing compressed .json files. Please see the metadata attached for further information.

Tags: catchment-analysis, foot-traffic, network, pedestrian, pedestrian-behaviour, route-analysis, safemobility, traffic-flow
Organization: City of Melbourne Open Data
Social Indicators for City of Melbourne Residents 2019

The City of Melbourne Social Indicators Survey (CoMSIS) was conducted for the first time in 2018. The survey collects data, annually, about the state of health, well-being, participation and connection of communities in the Melbourne Local Government Area, primarily to report on key Council Plan 2017-21 municipal outcome indicators. 
This dataset provides indicator results for 1,212 residents surveyed via telephone and online. Data has been provided by suburb, gender and age groups and has been weighted according to population proportions.  Responses such as don't know, not sure, not applicable etc. were excluded in the calculation of indicators.  The sample sizes shown reflect this accordingly.

Tags: diversity, food-security, health, indicators, learning, liveability, participation-in-activities, residents, safety, stats, wellbeing
Organization: City of Melbourne Open Data
Soil textures at various depths

These are points in the city where soils have been sampled at different depths and a soil texture has been assigned. Location represents the park and sample number. 0_400 refers to the depth from surface (0) to 400 mm. 400_700 refers to depth from 400 mm to 700 mm. 700_1000 refers to depth from 700 mm to 1000 mm

Tags: forest, soil-texture, soils, tree, urban-forest, urbanforest
Organization: City of Melbourne Open Data
Social Indicators for City of Melbourne Residents 2023

The City of Melbourne Social
Indicators Survey (CoMSIS) was conducted for the first time in 2018. The survey
collects data, annually, about the state of health, well-being, participation
and connection of communities in the Melbourne Local Government Area, primarily
to report on key Council Plan 2021-25 municipal outcome indicators.
This dataset provides indicator results for 1,376 residents surveyed via telephone and online. Data has been provided by suburb,
gender and age groups and has been weighted according to population
proportions. Responses such as don't know, not sure, not applicable etc. were
excluded in the calculation of indicators. The sample sizes shown reflect this
accordingly.

Tags: diversity, food-security, health, indicators, learning, liveability, participation-in-activities, residents, safety, stats, wellbeing
Organization: City of Melbourne Open Data
Former lakes and wetlands in Melbourne

This shapefile delineates historic water bodies including wetlands, the old Yarra River and Moonee Ponds Creek alignments and lakes (presumably seasonal and generally estuarine). The polygons are digitised from the 1855 map "Melbourne and its Suburbs" compiled by James Kearney, draughtsman ; engraved by David Tulloch and James D. Brown. http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/89107

Tags: historic, researcher, urban-forest, urbanforest, water
Organization: City of Melbourne Open Data
Tree canopies 2011 (Urban Forest)

Tree canopy within City of Melbourne mapped using 2008 aerial photos and LiDAR. The canopy polygons represent actual tree canopy extents on both private and public property across the city. The data is considered accurate for 2011. Changes in tree canopy are expected to have occurred since that time.

Tags: citizenreporter, eventsplanner, forest, tree, urban-forest, urbanforest
Organization: City of Melbourne Open Data
Statement of changes in equity 2015-2018

This dataset contains equity information for the City of Melbourne. It has values started in 2015 and ending in 2018 with each record also indicating the year in which the value occured. 
The statement of Changes in Equity is a statement which is a representation of accumulated surplus, revaluation reserve and other reserve movements at 30 June each financial year. 
While all due care has been taken in providing these figures, some errors and discrepancies may be present.

Tags: budget, citizenreporter, equity, surplus
Organization: City of Melbourne Open Data
Bat Records in Fitzroy Gardens and Royal Botanic Gardens 2010

Bat Records in Fitzroy Gardens and Royal Botanic Gardens 2010. Collected by Fiona Caryl (field surveys from PhD research) in April 2010 by acoustic recording devices - then species were identified from their calls. All species are microbats. Some records are only classified down to genus level. All records have coordinates.

Tags: animals, bats, biodiversity, microbats, parks, research, science
Organization: City of Melbourne Open Data
Former creeks in Melbourne (Urban Forest)

This shapefile delineates historic creek lines digitised from the 1855 map Melbourne and its Suburbs" compiled by James Kearney, draughtsman ; engraved by David Tulloch and James D. Brown. http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/89107. The Elizabeth Street, Swanston Street and Fitzroy Garden creek alignments are included based on descriptions in: 



 1. Presland, Gary. 2009. Place for Village. 



 2. Burchett, Winston. 1978. East Melbourne, 1837-1977.

Tags: historic, urban-forest, urbanforest, water
Organization: City of Melbourne Open Data
Patents 2010-14 with per-capita count (Standard and Innovation only)

The number of patents issued to resident persons or corporations of a city is an indicator of innovation, which is a result of the production and use of knowledge.







 The patents counted in this indicator were 'standard' and 'innovation patents. Standard patents are granted only for inventions - in other words an invention that is not an obvious thing to do for someone with knowledge and experience in the technological field of the invention. The innovation patent is granted for an incremental advance on existing technology or knowledge that makes a substantial contribution to the working of the invention.







 To derive the figure for per 100,000 residents, the total number of patents granted annually to individuals and entities living or working in the municipality is divided by the municipality's population divided by 100,000. The result is a figures expressed as the number of new patents granted per 100,000 population.

Tags: entrepreneur, innovation, knowledge, research
Organization: City of Melbourne Open Data
Development Activity Model Footprints

This dataset contains spatial information about development activity located within the City of Melbourne municipal area. Developments may have one of four statuses. Applied, Approved and Under Construction, and Complete.



Site content is derived from a range of sources at various times and as such the content may not be free from errors, omissions or defects. Inconsistencies may occur in some data sets. The City of Melbourne uses its best endeavours to ensure that the information is reliable.



The development polygons are representational only and are not intended for analytical or comparative purposes. The polygons are simplified polygons of an indicative floor plate for the podium (if relevant) and tower. The height data is an approximation of the height of the building and does not show the architectural features of the buildings.



Further information is provided in the attached pdf document below. This is provided to help users understand the currency and reliability of the site content which often involves complex processes to derive the information. The aim is to provide users with facts about the source of the content and when it was collected. Users can then make an informed decision as to whether the site content is appropriate for their particular purpose and information needs.



Although all due care has been taken to ensure that this data is correct, no warranty is expressed or implied by City of Melbourne in its use.



Please note we are aware of update issues and are currently investigating.

Tags: 3d, accessibility, activity, building, cityreactivation, dam, dev, development, development-footprints, dwellings, footprints, monitor, office, planning, property, retail
Organization: City of Melbourne Open Data
Landmarks and places of interest, including schools, theatres, health services, sports facilities, places of worship, galleries and museums.

This dataset contains a description and co-ordinates of places of interest within the City of Melbourne.



Themes include: Community Use, Education Centre, Health Services, Leisure/Recreation, Mixed Use, Office, Place Of Assembly, Place of Worship, Purpose Built, Retail, Transport, Vacant Land



Sub-themes include: Art Gallery/Museum, Church, Function/Conference/Exhibition Centre, Informal Outdoor Facility (Park/Garden/Reserve), Major Sports &amp; Recreation Facility, Office, Public Buildings, Public Hospital, Railway Station, Retail/Office/Carpark, Tertiary (University), Theatre Live

Tags: accessibility, buildings, cityreactivation, eventsplanner, landmarks, recreation, significant, sport, transport, worship
Organization: City of Melbourne Open Data
Microclimate sensors data

This dataset contains climate readings from climate sensors located within the City. The data is updated every fifteen minutes and can be used to determine variations in microclimate changes throughout the day. This data includes:



-         Ambient air temperature



-         Relative humidity



-         Atmospheric pressure



-         Wind speed and direction



-         Gust wind speed



-         Particulate matter 2.5



-         Particulate matter 10



-         Noise



Note this dataset may not contain a reading every 15 minutes as the sensor devices might not have a reading for each value. There may be some situations where no readings are reported. 

Tags: climate, humidity, microclimate, noise, particulate-matter, rooftop, temperature, weather, weather-stations, wind, wind-speed
Organization: City of Melbourne Open Data
Fees and charges 2014-15

This is a list of all Fees and charges administered by the City of Melbourne. Where there is a change to or from $0 this reflects; a new facilities coming online or a new service offered, changes to the pricing structure as determined by the state government or a review of the existing pricing structure. Some fees and charges including GST status are subject to change following a review of Division 81 GST legislation.

Tags: budget, charges, citizenreporter, facilities, fees
Organization: City of Melbourne Open Data
Tree planting zone schedules, with years (Urban Forest)

Under the Urban Forest Strategy, there are ten Precinct Plans that provide detailed information about how planting will occur in local streets to meet the objectives of the strategy. A planting schedule for streets in each precinct has been developed in consultation with the community and is based on:

-  Community priorities

-  Location and density of vulnerable residents

-  Opportunities for new planting

-  Hot and very hot streets, as shown in thermal imaging 

-  Useful Life Expectancy of existing trees

-  Existing canopy cover



This dataset shows the anticipated timeframe for tree planting in each street across the City of Melbourne. This timing is provisional and subject to change. The schedule for some streets may be moved forward or delayed by capital works, developments or renewal projects that impact on tree planting or survival. 



To learn more about the Urban Forest Strategy and Precinct Plans, visit http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/sustainability/urbanforest/pages/urbanforest.aspx

Tags: greening, schedule, tree, tree-planting, trees, urban-forest
Organization: City of Melbourne Open Data
Customer Service Requests (with digital channel information)

This dataset contains service requests received from external customers. This data is collected through the council's Salesforce system. It contains information about the service type, status, and dates for received and closed. This dataset only contains a subset of the received requests as it is extracted from one of several customer requests systems.

Tags: accessibility, assets, customer-service-requests, customers, requests, salesforce, work
Organization: City of Melbourne Open Data
Standard Balance Sheet 2013-14

The balance sheet is a representation of an organisation's assets, liabilities and equity at a particular point in time. A balance sheet can be used to show a business's net worth. It includes line items such as cash assets, receivables, investments and payables. 

While all due care has been taken in providing these figures, some errors and discrepancies may be present.

Tags: assets, balance-sheet, budget, citizenreporter, finance, liabilities
Organization: City of Melbourne Open Data
Tree canopies 2019

This dataset contains spatial polygons which represent tree canopy areas across the City of Melbourne. It can be easily mapped using the geometry column. 

Tree canopy polygons have been derived by ArborCarbon from high-resolution airborne multispectral imagery. ArborCarbon collected this imagery using the ArborCam, a unique 11-band airborne multispectral camera system optimized for the accurate detection of vegetation and subtle changes in vegetation condition. 

The high-resolution airborne imagery datasets were geometrically corrected and orthorectified using the City of Melbourne’s publicly available 2018 aerial imagery and a Digital Terrain Model supplied by the City. A Digital Surface Model was generated from the acquired imagery for the full extent of the City, enabling the stratification of vegetation into a range of height categories. All vegetation &gt;3m above the ground was classified as canopy (excluding vegetation on building rooftops).

Tags: greening, plant, tree, urban-forest, vegetation, vegetation-health
Organization: City of Melbourne Open Data
2023 Building Footprints

This dataset shows the footprints of all structures within the City of Melbourne. A building footprint is a 2D polygon (or multi-polygon) representation of the base of a building or structure. The footprint is defined as the boundary of the structure where the walls intersect with the ground plane or podium, rather than an outline of the roof area (roofprint).

Where a building has a significant change in built form, multiple footprint polygons are ‘stacked’ vertically to define shape of the built form. This includes, and is not limited to:

- Tower
- Podium
- Setbacks/offsets

The Australian Height Datum (AHD) is the national vertical datum for Australia. The National Mapping Council adopted the AHD in May 1971 as the datum to which all vertical control mapping would be referred

The data was captured in May 2023.

Tags: 3d, boundary, building-footprint, development, planning, property, spatial, structures
Organization: City of Melbourne Open Data
Litter Traps

Litter traps are devices that retain ‘gross pollutants’ (litter and debris greater than 5mm) They are available in several configurations and designs.



This dataset can be used in conjunction with the drainpipe dataset https://data.melbourne.vic.gov.au/Assets-Infrastructure/Drainpipes/3bff-vaa5



The stormwater pit dataset:

https://data.melbourne.vic.gov.au/Assets-Infrastructure/Stormwater-Pits/psq9-yz4x



and also the pumping station dataset:

https://data.melbourne.vic.gov.au/Assets-Infrastructure/Pumping-Station/55z9-zqzu

Tags: assets, cleanup, debris, litter, pollutants
Organization: City of Melbourne Open Data
Live Music Venues

Melbourne is widely known as one of the world’s great music cities, and has more live music venues per capita than any other city in the world (Melbourne Live Music Census Report 2017).

City of Melbourne is home to a large number of these venues and this dataset provides a list of dedicated live music venues, and other venues and spaces which present live music, in the municipality. 

It should be noted that the criteria for a live music venue, as determined by the Melbourne Live Music Census Report 2017, is a venue which presents live music two nights per week minimum.  The census also identified that on an annual basis, 44% of regular venues feature live music on four nights per week, 28% on five nights and 10% on seven nights. Additionally according to the census and associated venue survey responses, a live venue in Melbourne typically: - is a hotel or bar in the CBD or inner suburbs which has been operating for an average of 8 years and, in 50%+ of cases, presents live music four nights per week.

Tags: bar, cityreactivation, gigs, hotel, live-music, melbourne, music, nightclub, venue
Organization: City of Melbourne Open Data
Customer service requests, with resolution time

Requests for service logged by members of the public relating to waste, graffiti, parking,

roads and traffic, parks and trees and assets in a public space.



REQUEST_STATUS - The current status of the request. This can be a combination of: CLOSED (completed/resolved), WIP (work in progress), REASSIGNED (This request has been moved to another work unit), NEW (This request has been logged and will be allocated to the appropriate officer), ACTIONED (The work has been assigned to a unit).



DATE_RECEIVED - The date that the customer service request was received.



DATE_COMPLETED - The date that the request was finalized/resolved.



SUBURB - The suburb of the request (confidential requests have been removed). Some suburb values will be blank because they do not have a location assigned. 



CATEGORY - The high level category of the request.



SERVICE_DESC - A more detailed description of the request.



DAYS_TO_COMPLETE - Indicates numbers of days between DATE_RECEIVED and DATE_COMPLETED. This does not include time taken when referring to other authorities or waiting for more information from the customer.

Tags: amenities, animal, art, assets, barbecue, barbeque, bbq, bench, bicycle-rack, bin, bollard, channel, cleaning, condition, dog, drinking, floral, flower, flowerbed, footpath, fountain, furniture, garbage, gardens, graffiti, green-waste, gutter, hard-waste, hoop, horticulture, infringements, issues, kerb, leash, lighting, lights, line-marking, litter, machine, maintenance, median, memorial, meter, nature-strip, off-leash, open-space, oval, parking, parking-officer, parking-space, parks, pets, plaque, playground, poles, possum, pot-holes, potholes, report, request, reserves, roads, rubbish, seat, service, signage, signals, signs, sportsground, statue, street, sweeper, tagging, tags, traffic, tree-guard, trees, waste
Organization: City of Melbourne Open Data