Open Water Data informs open water swimmers and other water recreation users with a wealth of information about popular beaches in Toronto, and around the world so they can make informed decisions about where and when to swim outdoors.
Understanding Paramedic Service Demand and Response
By Denise Chang
By using historical data from 2017 to 2022, the project aims to identify patterns in service demand and how time-based factors such as year, month, day of the week, and hour influence the frequency and nature of incidents.
Building Public Tools for Tenant’s Rights
By University of Toronto Scarborough, Kalamuna
RenovationWatch.ca empowers Toronto renters by transforming complex city building permit data into an accessible, interactive tool to monitor renovations, challenge unjust increases, and advocate against renovictions.
From web apps to visualizations, Toronto’s open data is used to build some incredible tools, services, and projects. We’re lucky to have an engaged and diverse community, and we’re proud to show some of the best examples of where open data has been used to innovate solutions.
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Mobile Apps
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Transit App
By Transit App, Inc.
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Transit is your real-time urban travel companion. Navigate your city's public transit system with accurate real-time predictions, simple trip planning, step-by-step navigation, service disruption notifications, and departure and stop reminders.
Cycle Now is a free and easy to use app dedicated to improving your bike share experience. Key features include finding the nearest bike or dock (parking station) instantly, alerts if your station becomes full so you can re-route sooner, and a trip planner.
This app organizes all of your favourite rink schedules in one place, displaying the times for all the activities you’re interested in. Its simplicity, intuitive and beautiful dark mode design makes Go Skate a must have for any outdoor rink lover.
MonTransit effortlessly brings the most relevant transit information to you, including buses, ferries, subways, streetcars & trains schedules (offline & real-time), bike stations availability, service alerts & the latest news from agencies web sites.
Open Water Data informs open water swimmers and other water recreation users with a wealth of information about popular beaches in Toronto, and around the world so they can make informed decisions about where and when to swim outdoors.
InspectNest is a service that helps homeowners keep track of their home maintenance, garbage collection schedule, and property valuation. It provides timely reminders for home maintenance tasks & keeps track of garbage collection dates.
BikesharePro is a web-based tactical planning tool that leverages data-driven descriptive, predictive and prescriptive models to enhance bike-share network expansion, improve accessibility, and support equitable, sustainable mobility planning.
BikeSpace is a free web app run by volunteers from Civic Tech Toronto that allows users to report issues with bicycle parking in Toronto (e.g. broken post and rings, locked abandoned bikes, and areas where bicycle parking is not provided).
Learn more about Toronto City Councillors! The website is a comprehensive resource for learning about Toronto city councillors, offering detailed profiles that include their voting history, committee memberships, and key initiatives.
By Urban Data Research Centre, School of Cities, University of Toronto
The mission of the Canadian Urban Data Catalogue (CUDC) is to provide awareness of the vast array of urban and non-urban Canadian data by providing an open catalogue of Canadian datasets. It catalogues both open and closed datasets, along with data accessible
The web map allows anyone to easily view the locations and details for building permit applications to construct laneway and garden suites across the city.
SixSafety- Empowering You and Your Community’s Safety
By Allan Gall Francis, Bailie Geddes, Christine Tang, Ethan Hu, Numan Ekrekli, Zachary Kulik (Team AI Fundamentals)
SixSafety is an AI-powered web application that leverages Toronto's Major Crime Indicator dataset and Large Language Models to generate personalized safety plans for the general public.
RenovationWatch.ca empowers Toronto renters by transforming complex city building permit data into an accessible, interactive tool to monitor renovations, challenge unjust increases, and advocate against renovictions.
A data-dense visualization of all the trees in Toronto to allow people to easily view and compare spatial distribution of tree cover across different scales
A map visualizing all Bike Share trips in June of 2024 to highlight where people cycle across the city. Project goals were initially descriptive and exploratory, but the map has since been used to advocate for more (not less) cycling infrastructure in Toronto
Using Toronto neighbourhood profiles based on 2016 Census Data, exploratory analysis was done with a variety of neighbourhood metrics, such as density, household size, age, and commute modes.
The Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORCs) Access to TTC Stops project addresses the 'Clarity and Impact' criterion by visualizing NORC locations and TTC stop proximity to highlight the accessibility challenges faced by seniors.
A map showing the locations of outdoor skating rinks in Toronto, with the background of the map coloured by the time it takes to travel to the nearest outdoor skating rink.
Examined the Toronto parking ticket dataset from 2017-2020 and identified factors that could have impacted trends. Provided fact-based recommendations on what the City of Toronto should do to improve enforcement, compliance or increase revenue.
Understanding Paramedic Service Demand and Response
By Denise Chang
By using historical data from 2017 to 2022, the project aims to identify patterns in service demand and how time-based factors such as year, month, day of the week, and hour influence the frequency and nature of incidents.
This project analyzed the attendance of city councillors at council meetings, and clustered city councillors based on their voting behaviour into blocs.
TorontoSUMONetworks is an open-source project designed to simulate and analyze traffic networks for the City of Toronto using the Simulation of Urban MObility (SUMO) tool.
City Hall Watcher is a weekly newsletter exploring the dark corners and nerdy details of Toronto City Hall. Published by award-winning journalist Matt Elliott, its delivered to thousands of people with an interest in knowing how local government works
Tabs makes it easy for anyone to find out in advance when a topic they care about will be discussed by city council/committee You give it your email address and terms you care about. Every night it emails you related City of Toronto council or committee items.
A feature investigating how 311 requests vary by type and frequency across Toronto, and what that might say about civic engagement and privilege in the city.