About this site

brisbane.services is a civic directory for Brisbane residents, generated from open data. It currently covers two things: 2,204 parks — with the BBQs, dog off-leash areas and drinking fountains recorded at each — and 582 public toilets with their accessibility details. Pages are generated at build time directly from the source data — nothing here is written or edited by hand, and nothing is guessed: where the data doesn't record a fact (for example, whether a dog area has lighting), the page says so rather than assuming.

Data sources

Most data comes from open datasets licensed under CC BY 4.0 — parks, facilities and toilets from the Brisbane City Council Open Data portal, and state-managed parks from the Queensland Government Open Data portal:

Park locationsBCC · CC BY 4.0Park barbeque locationsBCC · CC BY 4.0Park dog off-leash areasBCC · CC BY 4.0Park drinking fountain / tap locationsBCC · CC BY 4.0Public toilets in BrisbaneBCC · CC BY 4.0Protected areas of Queensland (state parks)Qld Gov · CC BY 4.0

State-managed parks data is © State of Queensland (Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation), licensed under CC BY 4.0.

The council's original data has been modified for this site: park, BBQ, dog off-leash, and drinking fountain records have been joined together by park number, filtered to drop records with missing coordinates or an unresolvable park match, and reformatted (title-cased names, normalised coordinates) for display. This site is not endorsed by or affiliated with Brisbane City Council.

Suburb areas are computed from the council boundary shown on each map; these can differ from ABS locality figures, which use different boundaries.

The public toilets dataset has an extra step in its provenance: Brisbane City Council republishes it under CC BY 4.0, but the underlying facility data originates from the National Public Toilet Map, run by the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care, filtered by the council to the Brisbane City Council local government area.

State-managed parks now sit alongside council parks — Fort Lytton, St Helena Island and the Moreton Island (Gheebulum Kunungai) national parks among them — taken from the Queensland protected-areas data and kept to those whose centre falls inside the Brisbane City boundary. A few large parks that only touch Brisbane at their edge — D'Aguilar National Park, which people enter from The Gap — sit mostly in a neighbouring council area, so they're listed there, not here.

A very small number of parklands — South Bank Parklands and Roma Street Parkland — are curated by hand, because no open dataset carries them. Every fact on those pages comes from a primary source (the managing body or government), is cited on the page, and carries the month it was last reviewed. If a dataset ever publishes them, the curated record steps aside for it.

Data last updated 12 September 2026.