One feature that Vicmap types as feature type community space with subtype rest area or camp ground. Each row has the feature's name where Vicmap gives one, its subtype, the name of its parent feature where Vicmap records one, the authority Vicmap records for it, its Vicmap and VICNAMES identifiers, the date Vicmap created the feature, and its longitude and latitude in GDA2020.

How do I find only the camp grounds?

The feature subtype column holds camp ground for the 1,700 or so camp grounds and rest area for the 560 or so rest areas. Filter on that column.

Why do some rows have no name?

Vicmap gives no name for about 330 of the rest areas and about 50 of the camp grounds. Those rows have a blank name, as Vicmap serves them.

Why do some rows have no coordinates?

Vicmap serves each feature as a set of points. Most sites are one point, and their coordinates are published as given. About 20 sites are served as two points, and those rows have blank coordinates because this site does not choose one point over another.

Why are some sites in New South Wales or South Australia?

Vicmap maps features near the border on both sides, and its state field marks those outside Victoria as NSW or SA. The rows are kept as served.

Does it say what facilities a site has or whether I can stay overnight?

No. Vicmap records where a named feature is. It does not record toilets, water, fees or how long a person may stay. The authority that manages each site sets those rules.

Datasets / Victoria / Transport and Planning

Rest areas and camp grounds in Victoria, Vicmap Features of Interest

Name: Rest areas and camp grounds in Victoria, Vicmap Features of Interest
Creator: Department of Transport and Planning
Published: 2026-10-27
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Publisher Department of Transport and PlanningUpdated as neededLicence CC BY 4.0Latest 2026-10-27Rows 2,261Fields 22

The rest areas and camp grounds in the Vicmap Features of Interest point layer, foi_point, read from the Vicmap web feature service with the filter feature type community space and subtype rest area or camp ground. Each row carries the site's name, its subtype, its parent feature's name, the authority Vicmap records for it, its Vicmap and VICNAMES identifiers, the date Vicmap created the feature, and its longitude and latitude in GDA2020.

Also called: Victorian rest areas, Victorian campgrounds, Camping areas Victoria, Vicmap FOI rest areas, Vicmap FOI camp grounds.

Before you use it

What is in each row?: One feature that Vicmap types as feature type community space with subtype rest area or camp ground. Each row has the feature's name where Vicmap gives one, its subtype, the name of its parent feature where Vicmap records one, the authority Vicmap records for it, its Vicmap and VICNAMES identifiers, the date Vicmap created the feature, and its longitude and latitude in GDA2020.
How do I find only the camp grounds?: The feature subtype column holds camp ground for the 1,700 or so camp grounds and rest area for the 560 or so rest areas. Filter on that column.
Why do some rows have no name?: Vicmap gives no name for about 330 of the rest areas and about 50 of the camp grounds. Those rows have a blank name, as Vicmap serves them.
Why do some rows have no coordinates?: Vicmap serves each feature as a set of points. Most sites are one point, and their coordinates are published as given. About 20 sites are served as two points, and those rows have blank coordinates because this site does not choose one point over another.
Why are some sites in New South Wales or South Australia?: Vicmap maps features near the border on both sides, and its state field marks those outside Victoria as NSW or SA. The rows are kept as served.
Does it say what facilities a site has or whether I can stay overnight?: No. Vicmap records where a named feature is. It does not record toilets, water, fees or how long a person may stay. The authority that manages each site sets those rules.

2,241 rest areas and camp grounds drawn in 1,141 cells of 0.05 degrees, the fullest with 27. — Rest areas and camp grounds counted in cells of 0.05 degrees. State outlines from the ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard 2021, CC BY 4.0.

2,261rest areas and camp grounds

22fields

11formats

1version

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Any agent that connects to publicdata.au/mcp can find this dataset, read its 22 fields, count and filter across all 2,261 rows and diff its versions. Every answer names the version and carries Transport and Planning's attribution. No key.

Then ask it: What does Rest areas and camp grounds in Victoria, Vicmap Features of Interest hold, and what changed in the newest version?

claude mcp add --transport http publicdata https://publicdata.au/mcp

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Query APIFilter and count from a URL

aggregate?group=feature_subtype&metric=count

Vicmap rest areas and camp grounds by subtype: 1,703 camp ground, 558 rest area.

Download it as Excel, CSV, JSON and 8 more formats

Pick a format and a version. Excel is picked first because it opens in the tools most offices have. The URL is yours to keep. A dated version keeps its content.

Format

Version "Latest" redirects to the newest version and will change when the publisher releases again. A dated version keeps its content.

https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rest-areas-camp-grounds/latest/data.xlsx

Download this file

One workbook with a records sheet of 2,261 typed rows, a fields sheet and a publicdata sheet with the provenance. Dates are real Excel dates. Opens in Excel, Numbers, LibreOffice and Sheets.

In your own tools

Use it in Excel, R, Python and more

Excel and Power BI read the CSV from its address and refresh from it. The R and Python packages take any dataset on this site by its slug, so a new dataset needs no new release. The DuckDB file attaches read-only over HTTPS, and a query reads only the blocks it touches.

The dated URL in the code never changes. https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rest-areas-camp-grounds/latest/ redirects to the newest version.

https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rest-areas-camp-grounds/latest/data.csv

In Excel choose Data, then From Web, and paste this address. Excel keeps it, so Refresh All reads the newest version. A sheet holds about a million rows; past that, load the query to the Data Model.

https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rest-areas-camp-grounds/latest/data.csv

In Power BI Desktop choose Get data, then Web, paste this address and choose Anonymous when asked how to sign in. A scheduled refresh reads the same address, so the report follows each new version.

library(publicdataau)
df <- pd_read("vic-rest-areas-camp-grounds")
pd_attribution(df)

install.packages("publicdataau"). pd_read() fetches the version's Parquet file; pd_rows() and pd_aggregate() ask the query API instead, and pd_connect() attaches the DuckDB file.

import publicdata_au as pd_au
df = pd_au.read("vic-rest-areas-camp-grounds")
df.attrs["publicdata"]["attribution"]

pip install "publicdata-au[pandas]". read() fetches the version's Parquet file; rows() and aggregate() ask the query API, and connect() attaches the DuckDB file.

INSTALL httpfs; LOAD httpfs;
ATTACH 'https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rest-areas-camp-grounds/v/2026-10-27/data.duckdb' AS vic_rest_areas_camp_grounds (READ_ONLY);
SELECT pfi, count(*) FROM vic_rest_areas_camp_grounds.records GROUP BY 1 ORDER BY 2 DESC;

The DuckDB file attaches read-only over HTTPS and only the blocks a query touches are read. Parquet works the same way: FROM read_parquet(url).

const res = await fetch("https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/vic-rest-areas-camp-grounds/aggregate?group=feature_subtype&metric=count");
const { rows, publicdata } = await res.json();
console.log(rows, publicdata.attribution);

The query API answers a page on any site as well as Node, with no key. It returns the rows and the attribution the licence asks for.

What is in it

Column names are made snake_case and the publisher's original header is kept beside each one. Blank cells are null. Nothing is added, removed, ranked or summarised.

Field	Type	Publisher's header	Note
name_label	string	name_label	The site's name in mixed case, as Vicmap labels it. Blank where Vicmap gives no name.
name	string	name	The site's name in Vicmap's capitals. Blank where Vicmap gives no name.
feature_type	string	feature_type
feature_subtype	string	feature_subtype	rest area or camp ground, as Vicmap types the feature.
feature_status	string	feature_status
parent_name	string	parent_name	The feature the site sits within, such as a park or reserve, where Vicmap records one.
parent_feature_id	integer	parent_feature_id
child_exists	string	child_exists
state	string	state
auth_org_code	string	auth_org_code
auth_org_id	string	auth_org_id
pfi	integer	pfi	Vicmap's persistent identifier for the feature, kept across its record's versions.
feature_id	integer	feature_id
vmadd_pfi	string	vmadd_pfi	The persistent identifier of the feature's Vicmap Address record, where it has one.
vicnames_id	integer	vicnames_id
vicnames_status_code	string	vicnames_status_code
theme1	string	theme1
theme2	string	theme2
create_date_pfi	string	create_date_pfi	The timestamp the service gives, kept as its text.
superceded_pfi	integer	superceded_pfi
longitude	number	(longitude)
latitude	number	(latitude)

Download this table as a data dictionary (Excel), or read it as a Frictionless Table Schema at schema.json. The key is pfi.

The first 10 rows

From the latest version, in the publisher's order, with every field. A blank cell is shown as null.

name_label	name	feature_type	feature_subtype	feature_status	parent_name	parent_feature_id	child_exists	state	auth_org_code	auth_org_id	pfi	feature_id	vmadd_pfi	vicnames_id	vicnames_status_code	theme1	theme2	create_date_pfi	superceded_pfi	longitude	latitude
Accommodation Camp	ACCOMMODATION CAMP	community space	camp ground	null	null	null	null	VIC	null	null	163	163	null	-773599	11	null	null	2009-05-20T17:30:03Z	null	147.189794	-36.697781
Angling Camping Ground	ANGLING CAMPING GROUND	community space	camp ground	null	null	null	null	VIC	null	null	177	177	null	-893480	11	null	null	2009-05-20T17:30:03Z	null	141.272888	-37.442069
Boys Camping Area	BOYS CAMPING AREA	community space	camp ground	null	RUBICON VALLEY HISTORIC AND CULTURAL FEATURES RES.	1337281	null	VIC	null	null	256	256	null	-893481	11	null	null	2009-05-20T17:30:04Z	null	145.859774	-37.319708
Casuarina Camping Ground	CASUARINA CAMPING GROUND	community space	camp ground	null	WYPERFELD NATIONAL PARK	1343866	null	VIC	null	null	292	292	null	-893483	11	null	null	2009-05-20T17:30:04Z	null	141.988251	-35.42727
Glenluce Springs Camping Ground	GLENLUCE SPRINGS CAMPING GROUND	community space	camp ground	null	CASTLEMAINE DIGGINGS NATIONAL HERITAGE PARK	1343846	null	VIC	null	null	483	483	null	-893484	11	null	null	2009-05-20T17:30:09Z	null	144.230791	-37.164103
Kallara Church Camp	KALLARA CHURCH CAMP	community space	camp ground	null	null	null	null	VIC	null	null	548	548	null	-773644	11	null	null	2009-05-20T17:30:09Z	null	145.779295	-36.79524
Kendalls Camping Area	KENDALLS CAMPING AREA	community space	camp ground	null	RUBICON VALLEY HISTORIC AND CULTURAL FEATURES RES.	1337281	null	VIC	null	null	550	550	null	-2102023	11	null	null	2009-05-20T17:30:09Z	null	145.85116	-37.309755
Old Rubicon Town Campsite	OLD RUBICON TOWN CAMPSITE	community space	camp ground	null	RUBICON VALLEY HISTORIC AND CULTURAL FEATURES RES.	1337281	null	VIC	null	null	693	693	null	-893491	11	null	null	2009-05-20T17:30:10Z	null	145.862133	-37.325092
Round Swamp	ROUND SWAMP	community space	camp ground	null	WYPERFELD NATIONAL PARK	1343866	null	VIC	null	null	765	765	null	-893493	11	null	null	2009-05-20T17:30:10Z	null	141.727556	-35.726001
Cubbys Camp	CUBBYS CAMP	community space	camp ground	null	COBBOBOONEE FOREST PARK	1339840	null	VIC	null	null	1056	1056	null	-1197383	11	null	null	2009-05-20T17:30:13Z	null	141.594476	-38.237922

The first row as JSON

As it appears in data.json.

GET https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rest-areas-camp-grounds/latest/data.json
{
  "name_label": "Accommodation Camp",
  "name": "ACCOMMODATION CAMP",
  "feature_type": "community space",
  "feature_subtype": "camp ground",
  "feature_status": null,
  "parent_name": null,
  "parent_feature_id": null,
  "child_exists": null,
  "state": "VIC",
  "auth_org_code": null,
  "auth_org_id": null,
  "pfi": 163,
  "feature_id": 163,
  "vmadd_pfi": null,
  "vicnames_id": -773599,
  "vicnames_status_code": "11",
  "theme1": null,
  "theme2": null,
  "create_date_pfi": "2009-05-20T17:30:03Z",
  "superceded_pfi": null,
  "longitude": 147.189794,
  "latitude": -36.697781
}

Query it without downloading

The query API returns only the rows you ask for, as JSON, NDJSON or CSV, from the same typed rows as the files. It needs no key. Build a query here and run it, then copy the URL or the code into your own work.

Try rows or aggregate for this dataset. The query builder needs JavaScript.

How filters work

Each filter is field=operator.value in the query string, and every filter must match. A number or date field compares as a number or date, and a text field compares as text. Values are case-sensitive, except that like and ilike ignore case in the ASCII letters A to Z. Prefix not. to negate a filter, as not.eq.value.

Operator	What it matches
eq.value	Equal to the value.
neq.value	Not equal to the value. A blank cell does not match.
gt.value	Greater than the value.
gte.value	Greater than or equal to the value.
lt.value	Less than the value.
lte.value	Less than or equal to the value.
like.text	Matches a pattern where * stands for any run of characters, ignoring case in the ASCII letters A to Z.
ilike.text	The same as like. Both ignore case in ASCII letters only, so É and é differ.
in.(a,b,c)	Equal to any value in the list. A value cannot contain a comma.
is.null	Blank in the source, or suppressed by the publisher.

Parameter	What it does
select	Fields to return, comma-separated. Every field when absent.
order	field.asc or field.desc, comma-separated. When absent, rows come in the order of the file they are read from. For the newest versions that is the version's own data.parquet, which keeps the publisher's order unless the dataset sorted it. Any other version is read from the Parquet file the answer names in file, and when that file is sorted the answer names its sort in order, which ties follow too.
limit	Rows per page, 1 to 10,000. 100 when absent.
offset	Rows to skip. The next URL in each answer sets it for you.
group	On aggregate, fields to group by, comma-separated.
metric	On aggregate, count, sum.field, avg.field, min.field or max.field, comma-separated. count when absent.
format	json, ndjson or csv. JSON carries the provenance header, and the others carry it in response headers.

Without a version the API answers from the newest version, and that answer changes when the publisher releases again. Put versions/<date>/ before rows or aggregate for an answer from that version alone. Every version with a table can be queried, and /api/v1/datasets/<slug>/versions lists them. A query on a version the database does not hold is read from its Parquet file, and one that would read too much of it is refused with DuckDB SQL that answers it from the file. The 1 newest version is loaded; versions lists them.

The API allows 60 requests in 10 seconds from one address. Above that it answers 429 for 10 seconds with a Retry-After header, a RateLimit-Policy header and a JSON body that gives the limit. Every API answer carries the same RateLimit-Policy. A client should wait the Retry-After seconds, or read the files, which have no limit. openapi.json describes this dataset's query paths for client generators and agents.

https://publicdata.au/mcp is a remote MCP server over Streamable HTTP with the same tools, defined in the same place, so a tool added to the pages is added here too. It needs no key and no account. Its row tools and the query API answer every version through one query path, so a tool's answer and the query URL it cites give the same rows. A query that would read too much of a file is refused with DuckDB SQL that answers it from the file. It also has search and fetch, the two tools ChatGPT's deep research and company knowledge call by name, which run search_datasets and read a dataset's record in the shapes those features expect. The row tools are held to the query API's limit of 60 queries in 10 seconds from one address, and each call is two queries because it also counts the matching rows. Add it to Claude Code with claude mcp add --transport http publicdata https://publicdata.au/mcp, add the URL in Claude as a custom connector, connect the publicdata.au plugin in ChatGPT, or give it to any client that connects to remote MCP servers. Each dataset with a table is also a resource at https://publicdata.au/d/<slug>/fields.json, which lists its fields with their types, the publisher's descriptions, their ranges and the values they hold, so an agent can read a dataset's shape before it writes a query.

What changed

One version for every release the publisher has made since this site started following the dataset. The date is the day the file changed on the portal.

2026-10-27
2,261 rows22 fieldsutf-8-siga996c4cb69b2

The publisher's server states no change date, so this version is dated by the fetch.

versions.json · changes.json · history.tar.zst (109 KB, every version's Parquet and manifest)

Questions

How do I download Rest areas and camp grounds in Victoria as a CSV file?

Open https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rest-areas-camp-grounds/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rest-areas-camp-grounds/v/2026-10-27/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, GeoJSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, GeoPackage, GeoParquet, NDJSON. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same.

Can I open Rest areas and camp grounds in Victoria in Excel?

Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rest-areas-camp-grounds/v/2026-10-27/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 2,261 rows on a records sheet, the field list on a second sheet and the provenance on a third. The CSV also opens in Excel. https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rest-areas-camp-grounds/v/2026-10-27/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size.

How often is Rest areas and camp grounds in Victoria updated?

Transport and Planning releases it as needed. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes.

Can I use Rest areas and camp grounds in Victoria commercially?

Yes. CC BY 4.0 allows commercial use, redistribution and derived works as long as the attribution is kept. The attribution string is in this page's side column and inside every file.

Is this the official source for Rest areas and camp grounds in Victoria?

No. The publisher is Department of Transport and Planning, and its page is https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/vicmap-features-features-of-interest-foi-point. National Digital converted the publisher's file to other formats. It renamed and typed the columns and kept only those the schema lists. National Digital made these changes, and the publisher is not responsible for them. The original sits beside every version as source.geojson with its SHA-256, so the two can be compared.

What coordinate system does Rest areas and camp grounds in Victoria use?

Points in GDA2020 (EPSG:7844), as the Vicmap service publishes them. A feature served as one point has its longitude and latitude published as given, and a feature served as several points has them blank. The GeoJSON file uses the same coordinates, which is what GeoJSON expects.

What this site did to the data. Cells were typed, headers were renamed and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. The publisher's file sits beside every version as source.geojson so the change can be checked.

Attribution and citation

The licence requires the publisher's attribution. We ask that you also name publicdata.au and link to the version you used.

Department of Transport and Planning, Victorian Government, Vicmap Features - Features of Interest (FOI) Point (Vicmap layer foi_point), sourced 26 October 2026, https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/vicmap-features-features-of-interest-foi-point, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/vic-rest-areas-camp-grounds/v/2026-10-27/

The map's state outlines are from the ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard 2021, under CC BY 4.0.

The attribution alone is inside every file. Harvard is the author-date form a report or a brief asks for. Paste the HTML on a web page so the links carry.

Licence record

Department of Transport and Planning states the licence, CC BY 4.0, on its own page, which was read and recorded here on 23 October 2026.

Every fetch reads the licence again and stops when it has changed. The fetch that made version 2026-10-27 read it from discover.data.vic.gov.au on 26 October 2026.

Also published on

Hugging Faceload_dataset("National-Digital/vic-rest-areas-camp-grounds")
Kagglewith a starter notebook
ZenodoDOI 10.5281/zenodo.23966574

Each copy carries the same attribution and links back to this page.

For agents and tools

datapackage.jsonFrictionless data package pointing at the latest version
schema.jsonTable Schema for every field
schema.xlsxthe same field list as an Excel data dictionary
versions.jsonevery version with date, rows, fields and hash
changes.jsondiff for every consecutive pair
manifest.jsonwhere the bytes came from and when
Query APIfiltered rows and counts without a download
openapi.jsonOpenAPI 3.1 for this dataset's query paths
explore/charts and dashboards in the browser, shareable and embeddable
index.mdthis page as Markdown

This page carries a schema.org Dataset record and is listed in /.well-known/ard.json and /catalog.json.

Source

Department of Transport and Planning publishes this table on opendata.maps.vic.gov.au. Questions about the content go to the publisher. Questions about the files here go to corrections.

Fetched 26 October 2026. Source SHA-256 a996c4cb69b26372…

Improve this dataset

This page is built from register/vic-rest-areas-camp-grounds.yaml on GitHub. Anyone can propose a fix to it, such as a clearer description or a field the publisher renamed, as a pull request.

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