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Data Sources

Wildgrounds starts from government and open datasets. Each imported place should keep source attribution, licence metadata, coordinates and enough context for users to verify important facts.

Source and enrichment policy

Government and open datasets are the canonical base for Wildgrounds place, park and facility facts wherever available. Official source URLs, publishers and licence notes are retained for attribution and user verification.

Google Maps, Google Places, Mapbox and similar services are used as enrichment, map display, geocoding or fallback discovery layers only. Wildgrounds does not store copied Google review text or Google photos in its database. Community posts, reviews and uploaded photos are a separate user-generated layer and may be moderated before appearing publicly.

Users should verify closures, fire bans, fees and booking rules with official sources before travelling.

Confidence order

Admin-approved corrections and admin edits come first, followed by exact official source parsing, official-text AI extraction, official URL discovery, and lower-confidence enrichment signals.

Location data

Public coordinates are used for maps, distance estimates and place schema. They can come from open datasets, official pages, source metadata, geocoding or reviewed enrichment.

Update frequency

Data is refreshed periodically as official datasets and enrichment sources change.

Error correction

If you find incorrect place data, contact us or report the place.

How place facts are ranked

  1. Priority 1

    Admin-approved user submissions and admin edits

  2. Priority 2

    Exact official URL and official source parsing

  3. Priority 3

    AI extraction from official page text with evidence guards

  4. Priority 4

    Official URL discovery and search-result matching

  5. Priority 5

    Lower-confidence Google review or photo-derived signals

NSW NPWS Visitor Areas

NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service · NSW · visitor_areas

Licence: Open government dataset; confirm resource-level licence before production import.

Point layer for day-use areas, camping areas and cemeteries in NSW parks.

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Parks Victoria Camp Grounds and Huts

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action · VIC · campgrounds

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Campgrounds and huts in Parks Victoria managed parks and reserves; marked as GovHack data.

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Parks and Conservation Reserves

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action · VIC · parks

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Park and reserve boundaries for contextual pages and filtering.

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Queensland Parks and Recreation Datasets

Queensland Government · QLD · parks

Licence: Varies by dataset; many resources are Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.

Source group for QPWS protected areas, recreation assets and camping permit datasets.

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Composite Gazetteer of Australia

Geoscience Australia · AU · places

Licence: Confirm service terms before production import.

Authoritative place names for geocoding context, aliases and nearby-town pages.

Source