National-Digital/vic-public-libraries

Public libraries in Victoria, Vicmap Features of Interest

About 320 libraries that Vicmap Features of Interest maps as points in and near Victoria, one row per library, with its name, Vicmap identifiers and coordinates.

This is a copy of the 2026-10-20 version of this dataset on publicdata.au, where it has 322 rows and 27 fields. The same version is kept at https://publicdata.au/d/vic-public-libraries/v/2026-10-20/ in 11 formats, with every earlier version and a query API.

Attribution

The data is published by Department of Transport and Planning under CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The licence requires this attribution:

Department of Transport and Planning, Victorian Government, Vicmap Features - Features of Interest (FOI) Point (Vicmap layer foi_point), sourced 19 October 2026, https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/vicmap-features-features-of-interest-foi-point, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

To cite this version, including where it was serialised:

Department of Transport and Planning, Victorian Government, Vicmap Features - Features of Interest (FOI) Point (Vicmap layer foi_point), sourced 19 October 2026, https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/vicmap-features-features-of-interest-foi-point, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-public-libraries/v/2026-10-20/

This is an independent republication. The publisher has not endorsed this site.

Versions

publicdata.au keeps a new version each time the publisher changes the source file, and lists them all at https://publicdata.au/d/vic-public-libraries/versions.json. This repository tags each version it holds as v<date>, so load_dataset("National-Digital/vic-public-libraries", revision="v2026-10-20") always returns these rows.

Query it without downloading

The publicdata.au query API filters and totals the newest version of this dataset and needs no key:

https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-public-libraries/rows?limit=10

Fields

Field	Type	Description
name_label	string	The library's name in mixed case, as Vicmap labels it. Blank where Vicmap gives no name.
name	string	The library's name in Vicmap's capitals.
feature_type	string	feature_type
feature_subtype	string	feature_subtype
feature_status	string	feature_status
parent_name	string	The feature the library sits within, such as a park or reserve, where Vicmap records one.
parent_feature_id	integer	parent_feature_id
child_exists	string	child_exists
state	string	state
auth_org_code	string	auth_org_code
auth_org_id	string	auth_org_id
auth_org_verified	string	The timestamp the service gives, kept as its text.
ufi	integer	Vicmap's identifier for this version of the feature's record.
pfi	integer	Vicmap's persistent identifier for the feature, kept across its record's versions.
feature_id	integer	feature_id
vmadd_pfi	string	The persistent identifier of the feature's Vicmap Address record, where it has one.
vicnames_id	integer	vicnames_id
vicnames_status_code	string	vicnames_status_code
theme1	string	theme1
theme2	string	theme2
create_date_pfi	string	The timestamp the service gives, kept as its text.
superceded_pfi	integer	superceded_pfi
create_date_ufi	string	The timestamp the service gives, kept as its text.
feature_ufi	integer	feature_ufi
feature_create_date_ufi	string	The timestamp the service gives, kept as its text.
longitude	number	Longitude
latitude	number	Latitude

publicdata.json beside the data names the version, licence, attribution and the SHA-256 of the publisher's file it was built from.