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Sources, dates and rights

Frozen independent evidence. No Google inputs. 2021 demographics remain historical; 2025 district population is separate. Geographic display and mapped activity do not establish demand, vacancy or capacity.

OpenStreetMap business records via Overpass

2026-10-01T08:02:36Z

© OpenStreetMap contributors

Licence: ODbL 1.0. Derived OSM database released under ODbL 1.0. Raw extract, query and derivative supplied in the evidence archive.

Primary source

ABS Regional population 2024–25 — SA2 ERP

31 March 2026; population at 30 June 2025; ASGS Edition 3 SA2 2021

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Regional population 2024–25. © Commonwealth of Australia. SA2 geometry simplified by 8 metres for display; values unchanged.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Attribute ABS; disclose geometry simplification and do not imply endorsement.

Primary source

OpenStreetMap inner-north Melbourne vector extract

2026-10-01T06:57:20Z

© OpenStreetMap contributors. ODbL 1.0. https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

Licence: ODbL-1.0. Redistributed OSM extract/derived database remains ODbL 1.0. Provide this raw extract and licence with report delivery; synthetic findings kept separately.

Primary source

Transport Victoria — public transport stops

Catalog updated 28 September 2026

© State of Victoria, Department of Transport and Planning. Bounded subset; repeated stop/mode rows deduplicated.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Attribute the source; identify transformations; no endorsement implied.

Primary source

Overture Places — permitted source records

2026-09-23.1; confidence ≥0.8; four mapped categories

Overture Maps Foundation; Meta; Microsoft; AllThePlaces; Foursquare. © 2026 Foursquare Labs, Inc. All rights reserved. Selected, filtered and deduplicated by Location Lab on 1 October 2026.

Licence: CDLA Permissive 2.0; Apache 2.0; CC0 1.0. Retain per-record provenance. Supply CDLA/Apache texts and full Foursquare NOTICE. Original and derived extracts accompany downloads.

Primary source

ABS 2021 Census — Mesh Block population and dwellings

2021 Census; ASGS Edition 3 boundaries; released 28 June 2022

© Commonwealth of Australia, ABS. Usual residents and dwellings joined to full ASGS Edition 3 Mesh Blocks. Display geometry simplified 1.5 m. Census counts are confidentialised; no building-level or 2025 counts inferred.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Attribute the source; identify transformations; no endorsement implied.

Primary source

ABS 2021 Census — SA1 General Community Profile

2021 Census; ASGS Edition 3 SA1; G01/G02/G33/G34

© Commonwealth of Australia, ABS. Whole-SA1 composition and household-income bins; no median averaging. SA1 boundaries reconstructed by union of their constituent official Mesh Blocks.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Attribute the source; identify transformations; no endorsement implied.

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Overture Places — mapped street activity subset

2026-09-23.1; selected customer-facing categories; confidence ≥0.8

Overture Maps Foundation; Meta; Microsoft; AllThePlaces; Foursquare. © 2026 Foursquare Labs, Inc. All rights reserved. Selected and deduplicated by Location Lab; counts along OSM roads are an exploratory mapped-activity proxy, not measured footfall.

Licence: CDLA Permissive 2.0; Apache 2.0; CC0 1.0. Retain per-record sources, CDLA/Apache licence texts and full Foursquare NOTICE. OSM road geometry stays in its separately attributed ODbL database.

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Accompanying evidence archives

Second-location-reproduction-pack.zip

Fine-geography-source-pack.zip

Free-source-evidence-pack.zip

OpenStreetMap-source-and-licence.zip

Retain the full source notices and relevant archives when distributing derived databases. Unknown rights are not accepted as open licences.