Skip to content

Data

We publish our data with an open licence to help others discover and share the history and stories of Toowong Cemetery.

Our Data

Friends of Toowong Cemetery have published data, including:

Other Data

Where practical, we link to authoritative data sources, rather than duplicate data. We encourage other data owners to publish their data as easily accessible open data. Other data we would like to reuse includes:

Brisbane City Council data

  • Graves and Human Remains - who is buried in which grave and associated dates
  • Cemetery Location data:
    • Cemetery boundary is available as open data
    • Portion and Section boundaries
    • Cemetery Road casements - centrelines are available as open data
    • Toowong Cemetery Pedestrian Entrance off Mt Coot‑tha Road.
    • Toowong Cemetery Main, Richer Street, and Frederick Street gates
    • Surrounding Road casements - including roads running off the surrounding road to aid orientation
    • Cemetery Building outlines - Amenities, Workshop, Office, Museum and Shelter Sheds
    • Waterways - Langsville Creek and Flood risk are available as open data
    • Governor Blackall and the Soldiers Memorial monument outlines
    • Contour lines - are available as open data.

Data Formats

Our data is published as Comma Separated Value (.csv) data files.

Data Consumers

Our end goal for publishing and linking our data is to enable Friends of Toowong Cemetery and others to discover and share new stories and historical insights about Toowong Cemetery.

We encourage you to reuse our data but please follow the terms of the licence and provide attribution.

Posting of the election results on the outside of the Courier building, 1907

Posting of the election results on the outside of the Courier building, 1907 — State Library of Queensland. Cropped