DATA & LICENCES
Every source behind the maps, rankings and downloads, with the licence its publisher states. Where a publisher states none, we say so rather than assume one.
Maps and street analysis contain information from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.
3 SOURCES
| SOURCE | LICENCE | USED FOR |
|---|---|---|
| OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap contributors Credit: © OpenStreetMap contributors | ODbL 1.0 | Basemap data (via OpenMapTiles) and the street and path network behind the analysis |
| OpenMapTiles OpenMapTiles Credit: © OpenMapTiles | Credit required (see provider terms) | Vector tile schema the basemap is built on |
| OpenFreeMap OpenFreeMap Credit: OpenFreeMap | Credit requested (see provider terms) | Basemap tile hosting (Positron style) |
14 SOURCES
| SOURCE | LICENCE | USED FOR |
|---|---|---|
| OpenStreetMap street network OSM contributors | ODbL | routable graph, hierarchy, cycleway/path edges pulled 2026-08-17 |
| Qld speed limits (GC North/South) Queensland Government | CC-BY 4.0 | edge speed 2022-05 point-in-time snapshot (data.qld.gov.au: not updated) |
| GC Cycleway Guide City of Gold Coast | CC-BY | off-road facility on OSM path edges within 10 m; on-road marking on any edge (ADR-011) current |
| GC Pathways (filtered: shared/bicycle paths, bike trails, footpaths >= 2 m wide) City of Gold Coast | CC-BY | off-road facility on OSM path/cycleway/footway edges within 10 m (ADR-011) 2026-07 (source index '2015' flag stale) |
| Qld road crash locations Queensland Government | CC-BY 4.0 | safety need (all-mode casualty rate per network km; bike+ped as evidence) Jan 2023 - Jun 2025 (30 months); most recent 12 months preliminary |
| Qld state schools (site KMLs, de-duplicated by site) Queensland Government | CC-BY 4.0 | destination (state schools) 2026 |
| Queensland Schools Directory (non-state rows only) Queensland Government (Department of Education) | CC-BY 4.0 | destination (Catholic and independent schools; ADR-047) May 2020 |
| GC activity centres, parks City of Gold Coast | CC-BY | destination current |
| TransLink SEQ GTFS TransLink | CC-BY | transit stops (weekday service) feed valid 2026-08-17 to 2026-10-16 |
| ABS SEIFA IRSD 2021 (SA1) ABS | CC-BY | equity, population (density numerator) 2021 |
| ABS Data-by-Region population (SA2) ABS | CC-BY | map context only (Explore density layer); not used in scoring 2024 ERP |
| ABS SAL suburb boundaries ABS | CC-BY | neighbourhood unit (density denominator) 2021 |
| GA SRTM 1s DEM Geoscience Australia | CC-BY | grade / flatness 2024 |
| CoGC property address points City of Gold Coast | CC-BY | dwelling proxy (accessibility) current |
33 SOURCES
| SOURCE | LICENCE | USED FOR |
|---|---|---|
| Bridge | Not stated by the publisher's service | On a canal city, bridges are the only crossings — what turns apparent connectivity into real connectivity. |
| Canal | Not stated by the publisher's service | Canal estates look superbly connected and are severely severed. The specific way a generic connectivity metric breaks on this city. |
| Capital Works | Not stated by the publisher's service | Aligning with funded works is a cost multiplier; duplicating them is embarrassing. |
| Census 2021 method of travel to work (G62) | Not stated by the publisher's service | Existing cycling mode share is the baseline any 'after' number is measured against, and the honest reminder of how low it starts. |
| Councillor Divisions | Not stated by the publisher's service | Every result gets read as 'what did my division get'. |
| Cycleway Guide | Not stated by the publisher's service | The brief's own distinction pre-split: 773km separated vs 453km paint. |
| Flood Risk Overlay 2026 | Not stated by the publisher's service | Stops the flatness term quietly selecting for flood exposure. |
| Functional road hierarchy | Not stated by the publisher's service | Arterials to cross, plus council-vs-state custodianship. Absence from this layer is positive evidence that a street is local. |
| Kerb and Channel | Not stated by the publisher's service | Kerb geometry indicates civil work required and constrains where separation can physically go. |
| LGA Boundary | Not stated by the publisher's service | Clip boundary for every state and national dataset. |
| Light Rail Route | Not stated by the publisher's service | A pilot feeding a G:link station serves trips far longer than itself. |
| Lights | Not stated by the publisher's service | Whether a route works after dark, which shapes who feels safe using it. |
| Locality boundaries (Queensland) | Not stated by the publisher's service | Suburb is the unit every councillor, resident and news story argues in. Results reported by anything else do not get read. |
| Open Space | Not stated by the publisher's service | Destinations, and often the cheapest corridors — a park route sidesteps the road-width constraint entirely. |
| Pacific Motorway service road types | Not stated by the publisher's service | The M1 is the dominant severance line; straddling suburbs are structurally disadvantaged. |
| Parking Bays | Not stated by the publisher's service | Parking removal is the best predictor of local opposition; counting affected bays makes a political risk comparable between options. |
| Path Structure | Not stated by the publisher's service | Path bridges and boardwalks — whether path coverage is continuous. |
| Pathway | Not stated by the publisher's service | Strict superset of Cycleway Guide. Carries built width and names 'Separated Path' explicitly, so separation is read rather than inferred. |
| Principal Cycle Network Plan | Not stated by the publisher's service | The council's Active Transport Plan makes PCNP membership its first prioritisation question. Turns 'our model says' into 'your plan says'. |
| Property Address | Not stated by the publisher's service | Dwelling points make the before/after accessibility statistic real. An SA1 centroid cannot produce that number credibly. |
| Queensland state school catchments | Not stated by the publisher's service | A catchment states which children are expected to travel to which school. That is a demand model the council does not have to build. |
| Queensland state school sites | Not stated by the publisher's service | The school run is the trip a separated network wins first, and the one a parent will not make without it. |
| Residential density | Not stated by the publisher's service | Zoned density is forward-looking where the Census is backward-looking. |
| Road crash locations | Not stated by the publisher's service | The out-of-sample test. A stress model that does not light up where people are actually being hit is measuring something else. |
| Road Segment | Not stated by the publisher's service | WIDTH_M is the highest-value field in the inventory: separation is a physical-space problem before it is a budget problem. |
| Speed limits for state and local roads | Not stated by the publisher's service | Observed signposted speed, on council streets as well as state roads. Everything else in the inventory infers speed from class. |
| State and non-state school details | Not stated by the publisher's service | Adds the private sector, a third of Gold Coast schools and absent from every state-school layer. |
| Traffic Count | Not stated by the publisher's service | Measured vehicles per day on local and collector streets — volume data that normally exists only on state highways. |
| Traffic Signal | Not stated by the publisher's service | Crossing at an existing signal is cheap; a new mid-block crossing is a project. The difference between a real and a fantasy cost estimate. |
| Vehicle Access | Not stated by the publisher's service | Driveway density is the quiet killer of separated lanes — every crossover is a conflict point and a design compromise. |
| Walking Network Plan routes | Not stated by the publisher's service | Independent policy signal. Where walking and cycling networks diverge sharply at centres, one of the two models is wrong. |
| Waterways | Not stated by the publisher's service | Severance barriers, used with bridges to compute honest connectivity. |
| Zone | Not stated by the publisher's service | Centres and local shops — the trips that are not school runs. |