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Light Up Brisbane

This app displays the locations from Brisbane City Council's Light Up Brisbane program on an easy-to-use interactive map. The Light Up Brisbane program illuminates the city's iconic landmarks and buildings in different colors to celebrate special events, causes, and community occasions throughout the year.

Light up calendar sourced from Brisbane City Council's open data platform and is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Updated:

Fireworks displays sourced from Queensland Government Open Data and is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Updated:

Stadium event details sourced from Stadiums Queensland, with permission. Updated:

Version History

v3.3 29 September 2026
Dates and times now always show in Brisbane time, so the map shows the right night when viewed from other time zones. Pinch-to-zoom is re-enabled, the date slider announces the selected date to screen readers, and date changes, loading, and errors are announced. Screen readers now hear clean landmark descriptions (no stray code such as ' or link markup) and "Evening" instead of "00:00" for scheduled light ups. Data feeds now load in parallel for a faster start.
v3.2 7 April 2026
Added a Try Again button on the error screen. Fixed several bugs including loose equality checks, unsafe null references, and improved date validation. Improved accessibility with focus-visible outlines, screen reader labels, and reduced-motion support for animations. Pre-compiled colour regexes for faster event processing.
v3.1 31 March 2026
Updated fireworks popups with title-cased headers, cleaner location lines, time-only details, and an approximate-location warning when precision is not address level. Also improved map attribution readability with line breaks between data sources.
v3.0 27 March 2026
Switched from the Suncorp-only feed to the all-stadium Stadiums Queensland feed, filtered to Suncorp Stadium and The Gabba in-map, and added a default Gabba marker message when no event is scheduled.
v2.3 8 March 2026
Filtered fireworks events outside the map bounds so invisible locations do not create extra calendar days. Added Queensland Government Open Data and CC BY 3.0 AU fireworks attribution.
v2.2 8 March 2026
Added fireworks overlays from the new public feed, including animated fireworks markers, multi-time labels, and detailed metadata popups.
v2.1 8 March 2026
Improved Suncorp event popups with sport, league, and clearer event timing labels. Styled title colour keywords and retained links to both event pages and all events.
v2.0 6 March 2026
Added Suncorp Stadium events to the shared calendar and marker activity. Added local team colour keyword mapping and Suncorp data last updated to the about modal.
v1.4 30 September 2025
Added maroon and lime green to the colour list and refined lime green matching. Added data last updated information to the about modal.
v1.3 18 August 2025
Added rainbow colours.
v1.2 30 July 2025
Added custom default descriptions for locations without scheduled events. Added GOMA's James Turrell 'Night Life' installation. Updated information for Queensland Government managed bridges and Suncorp Stadium with links to official pages.
v1.1 27 July 2025
Updated the date slider to allow stepping through dates. Added teal to colours.
v1.0 18 July 2025
Initial release with interactive map, date slider, and real-time light-up location tracking for Brisbane's iconic landmarks.
Created by Daniel Buntine
Engineer & Brisbane Enthusiast
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