Sources, dates and methods

OpenStreetMap business records via Overpass

2026-10-02T13:51:36Z

© OpenStreetMap contributors

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

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.

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.

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.

Overture Places — permitted source records

2026-09-23.1; confidence ≥0.8; four mapped categories; extended evidence area retrieved 2026-10-02

Overture Maps Foundation; Meta; Microsoft; AllThePlaces; Foursquare. © 2026 Foursquare Labs, Inc. All rights reserved. Selected, filtered and deduplicated by Location Lab on 2026-10-02.

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.

ABS 2021 Census — Mesh Block population and dwellings

2021 Census; ASGS Edition 3 boundaries; released 28 June 2022; every SA2 touching the extended evidence area

© 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.

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.

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.

OpenStreetMap road network (drive times)

2026-10-02T14:38:36Z

© OpenStreetMap contributors. Drive times estimated by Location Lab from typical speeds by road class; no live traffic.

Licence: ODbL 1.0. Derived road graph released under ODbL 1.0 with the evidence archive.

ABS ASGS Edition 3 — Postal Areas allocation (Mesh Block to POA)

ASGS Edition 3, July 2021 – June 2026

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Statistical Geography Standard Edition 3, Postal Areas allocation file. © Commonwealth of Australia.

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

Combined business directory (Overture + OpenStreetMap, deduplicated)

Built 2026-10-02 from Overture 2026-09-23.1 and OpenStreetMap 2026-10-02T13:51:36Z; targeted source checks and corrections 2026-10-09

© OpenStreetMap contributors; Overture Maps Foundation and source partners. Matched and deduplicated by Location Lab.

Licence: ODbL 1.0 for OpenStreetMap-derived records; CDLA Permissive 2.0 / Apache 2.0 / CC0 1.0 for Overture records. Derived database containing OpenStreetMap data: the combined extract is supplied under ODbL 1.0 with the evidence archive. Retain Overture per-record provenance and notices.

Vicmap Address

Clinic address points retrieved 9 October 2026; exact records in the curation archive

Vicmap Address © State of Victoria (Department of Transport and Planning), CC BY 4.0. Address search and presentation by Location Lab.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retain attribution, licence link https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ and notice of transformation. No endorsement is implied.

Clinic websites: dated factual checks

2026-10-09

Clinic names, addresses and short factual service descriptions checked against the named operators. No testimonials, review text or Google content.

Licence: Location Lab factual annotations CC0; source websites retain copyright. Retain source links, dates, limitations and the curation register. The combined OSM-derived database remains ODbL 1.0.

Current business address lookup

When an analyst selects a live Vicmap address, its source record, coordinates and retrieval time are saved with the brief and included in the delivery manifest. This is separate from the frozen demographic and business extracts.

Vicmap Address © State of Victoria (Department of Transport and Planning), CC BY 4.0. Address search and presentation by Location Lab.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retain attribution, licence link https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ and notice of transformation. No endorsement is implied.

Victorian locality selection

Locality data © State of Victoria (Department of Transport and Planning), Vicmap Admin. Names grouped for locality selection; no boundary or catchment analysis implied.

Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-10-10. Locality names support brief scoping, not demographic or competitor coverage.