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Mahlstedt's fire plans of Melbourne 1888

Created 10/01/2026

Updated 23/03/2026

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This is a set of 24 maps of buildings around Melbourne's CBD, produced by Mahlstedt and Gee in 1888. They were published under the title "Standard plans of the city of Melbourne". They were digitised by the City of Melbourne and geo-referenced.

The same maps are avaiilable through the State Library of Victoria: http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/126848

To help you choose between the two sources, here are some of the differences:

  • the SLV digitisations are higher quality, with fewer artefacts such as other maps bleeding through

  • the SLV has a web viewer, enabling you to quickly view each map online

  • the CoM versions are geo-referenced JPEG2000 files, meaning you can overlay them on a map

  • the CoM files are available for bulk download

There is no copyright on these map images.

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Title Mahlstedt's fire plans of Melbourne 1888
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/27e7e2ca-920a-48cc-91ce-bc743e009eac
Remote Last Updated 24/02/2020
Contact Point
City of Melbourne Open Data
opendata@melbourne.vic.gov.au
Reference Period 24/02/2020
Geospatial Coverage Melbourne
Data Portal Melbourne Data

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Melbourne Data "Mahlstedt's fire plans of Melbourne 1888". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.melbourne.vic.gov.au/explore/dataset/mahlstedts-fire-plans-of-melbourne-1888/