FindFit

By Yingli Weng, Thanushan Pirapakaran, Bryan Zang, Ammad Qureshi

This project creates a centralized, personalized platform to help Toronto residents easily find free and low‑cost community fitness and wellness programs that match their needs, language, and comfort level.

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Data: Parks and Recreation Facilities, Registered Programs and Drop In Courses Offering

RentSafeTO

By Amrit Sharma

RentSafeTO.com turns the City’s RentSafeTO building evaluation data into a fast, mobile-friendly map so renters can browse, search, and compare apartment buildings by neighbourhood - before booking viewings or signing a lease.

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Data: Apartment Building Evaluation, Apartment Building Registration

Mapping Urban Construction Activity and Socioeconomic Patterns in Toronto

By Ezekiel Kennedy Bissah

SixSight Toronto Construction Explorer unifies building permits and socio‑economic data into an interactive tool that helps users visualize development patterns and explore how construction intersects with neighbourhood inequality and housing trends.

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Data: Neighbourhoods, Building Permits - Active Permits, Building Permits - Cleared Permits, Neighbourhood Profiles

A 15-Minute Pity

By Emmett Young & Juliette Adams Fong

Featured Project

This project critically examines the 15‑minute city through the lens of healthcare access, assessing how spatial accessibility to essential services shapes wellbeing, equity, and future urban planning decisions.

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Data: Neighbourhoods, Neighbourhood Profiles, Pedestrian Network, Cycling Network, Merged GTFS, Zoning By-Law , Ontario Community Health Profiles Partnership, Statistics Canada, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Datasets: Hospitals (July 15, 2014)

TTC Delay Analysis Dashboard

By Smaranjeet Singh

This project turns TTC delay open data into an interactive dashboard that reveals where, when, and why transit delays happen, helping riders plan trips and enabling evidence‑based transit accountability.

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Data: TTC Subway Delay Data, TTC Streetcar Delay Data, TTC Bus Delay Data

Geoff - The Geospatial Fact Finder

By Connor Crowe

Geoff turns plain‑language questions into maps and insights, making spatial data usable for everyone.

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Data: Cycling Network, Parks and Recreation Facilities, Neighbourhoods, GTFS - TTC Routes & Schedules, Zoning By-Law

Ontario Community Health Profiles Partnership (OCHPP)

By Ontario Community Health Profiles Partnership (OCHPP)

OCHPP makes high-quality, area-specific, health-related data and maps available for free to everyone. Local level maps shine light on health equity concerns masked at larger areas allowing policy makers to identify + address gaps in access to care.

Access free data and maps at OCHPP's website

Mapping development changes along the Eglinton Crosstown corridor

By Mia Wang & Jeff Allen - School of Cities, University of Toronto

Featured Project

Analysis and visualization of building massing data 2013 to 2025 along the Line 5 Eglinton corridor

Website

Data: 3D Massing

TTCmap.ca - a real-time network status map

By Andrew Ilersich

TTCmap.ca is a real-time network status map that visualizes long-term and short-term disruptions in one place, making it easier to see if anything affects your trip.

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Data: TTC Routes and Schedules

neighbourgood

By Neighbourgood team from the PROGRAM: TORONTO hackathon

Featured Project

A local dashboard that shows what’s new in your neighbourhood — like new cafes, building permits, nearby parks, etc. All powered by open data.

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Data: Neighbourhoods, Municipal Licensing and Standards- Business Licences and Permits, Building Permits - Active Permits, Public Art, Parks and Recreation Facilities

Reno-ductions: Loss of Gentle Density in Toronto

By Jeff Allen, Remus Herteg, Ahmad Al-Musa - School of Cities, University of Toronto

Analyzing how often Toronto is losing dwelling units due to reno-ductions of small multi-family structures such as duplexes and triplexes being converted into single-family homes

Website

Data: Building Permits-Cleared Permits

Toronto Floor Area Ratio (FAR) Map

By Scott McCallum, Jeff Allen - School of Cities, University of Toronto

Visualizing Toronto's urban density with Floor Area Ratio (FAR) values across the city

Website

Data: 3D Massing, Property Boundaries

Open Water Data

By Mitch Bechtel

Featured ProjectAward Winner

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.

Visit openwaterdata.com

Data: Toronto Beaches Water Quality, Toronto Beaches Observations

InspectNest

By Theebak

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.

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Data: Solid Waste Collection Schedule

TO bus

By Thomas

This app utilizes the NextBus API provided by TTC. TOBus.ca is a quick bus time checker, and a handy data explorer on what the API provides.

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BikesharePro

By Ghazaleh Mohseni, Mehdi Nourinejad, Peter Park

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.

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Data: Bike Share Toronto, Bike Share Toronto Ridership Data, Cycling Network, Neighbourhood Improvement Areas

BikeSpace

By Civic Tech Toronto Volunteers

Featured ProjectRunner Up

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).

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Data: Street Furniture - Bicycle Parking, Bicycle Parking - High Capacity (Outdoor), Bicycle Parking Racks, Bicycle Parking - Bike Stations (Indoor), Cycling Network

Short Term Rentals Registration

By Mason Yekta

Discover Toronto's Short-Term Rentals Using a Map

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Data: Short Term Rentals Registration

Toronto City Councillors

By Mason Yekta

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.

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Data: Members of Toronto City Council - Voting Record

Canadian Urban Data Centre

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

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Respitely

By Arjun Sahjpaul

Respitely.org is a digital platform designed to bridge the gap between Toronto's open data and the community it serves

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Data: Daily Shelter Overnight Service Occupancy Capacity

Ice Skating Rinks in Toronto

By Jan Acusta

This map features service areas within a 15-minute walk of an outdoor artificial ice rink.

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Data: Outdoor Artificial Ice Rinks, Indoor Ice Rinks, Neighbourhoods, Regional Municipal Boundary

Toronto Laneway and Garden Suite Permits

By Geoffrey Singer

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.

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Data: Building Permits Active Permits, Building Permits Cleared Permits

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.

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Data: Neighbourhood Profiles, Major Crime Indicators

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.

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Data: Building Permits-Active Permits, Toronto Address Points

Historical Aerial Imagery Toronto

By Jeff Allen - School of Cities, University of Toronto

Web map application for viewing and comparing historical aerial imagery and air photos in Toronto (1939 to present)

Website

Data: Web Map Services

Tracking Gentle Density in Toronto

By Jeff Allen & Ahmad Al-Musa - School of Cities, University of Toronto

Visualizing a decade (2013 to 2023) of Secondary Suite and Laneway / Garden Suite building permits in Toronto

Website

Data: Building Permits-cleared permits

Toronto Beach App

By Mikaal Naik

The easiest way to check water quality at Toronto's beaches

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Data: Toronto Beaches Water Quality

DineSafely

By Sean Power

This dashboard offers a quick overview of food establishment inspection results across Toronto, comparing today's 'Conditional Pass' and 'Closed' statuses with yesterday's counts, and also lists establishments that currently hold these statuses.

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Data: DineSafe

CivicFlowTO

By Azaria Kelman

Featured Project

Uses natural language to query Toronto's Open Data.

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Toronto Accessible Public Parking Explorer

By Shaban Mohammed

Featured Project

An interactive map and data visualization tool that helps users locate and explore accessible parking spaces across Toronto using open city data.

Website

Data: Parking Lot Facilities

Toronto Journey Explorer

By Mason Yekta

Featured Project

Plan your perfect journey through Toronto. Enter your starting point and destination, select your interests, and discover personalized routes that include the places you love.

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Data: Neighbourhoods

Toronto Drop-in Recreation Finder

By Purpose Analytics

Featured Project

The Toronto Drop-in Recreation Finder helps you discover drop-in recreation programs and activities available across the city.

Website

Data: Registered Programs and Drop in Courses Offering

GetMovingTO

By Khan Azad

Live location based city-run drop-in fitness class finder.

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Data: Registered programs and drop-in courses offering

Toronto Parking

By Mohammad Abdulhussain

Featured ProjectRunner Up

Mapped every parking ticket issued in Toronto over the past 16 years

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Data: Automated speed enforcement ASE charges, Automated speed enforcement locations, Parking Tickets, Red light cameras, Red light camera annual charges, Neighbourhoods, City Wards

ALFRED - Toronto Crime Safety Assistant

By Dhanush Chandar Sivakumar

Featured Project

ALFRED is an AI-powered conversational assistant that analyzes Toronto Police crime data to provide neighbourhood-level safety insights in the voice of Alfred Pennyworth. It integrates Google Maps geocoding, geospatial crime analytics, and GPT-based reasoning

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Data: Neighbourhood Crime Rates

Cycle Now

By Transit Now

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.

Visit cyclenowapp.com

Data: Bicycle Parking Racks, Bicycle Count and Locations, Bike Share Toronto

Transit Now

By Transit Now - Bus, Bike

Never miss your bus or streetcar with real-time vehicle tracking. All features 100% free. Transit Now... Not Later!

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Data: TTC BusTime Real-Time Next Vehicle Arrival (NVAS)

MonTransit

By Mathieu Méa

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.

Data: Bike Share Toronto Ridership Data, Bike Share Toronto, TTC Routes and Schedules

Toronto Recycling Guide

By Petr Malik

Inspired by Toronto's own Waste Wizard tool Toronto Recycling Guide helps you properly sort, recycle and dispose garbage.

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Data: Waste Wizard Lookup Table, Solid Waste Pickup Schedule

Map of ~1.25 million trees across Toronto

By Jeff Allen, School of Cities, University of Toronto

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

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Data: Physical Location of Trees

Mapping Bike Share Trips In Toronto

By Jeff Allen, School of Cities, University of Toronto

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

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Data: Bike Share Ridership Data

Neighbourhood K-Mean Clustering

By Cristina Mazza

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.

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Data: Neighborhood Profiles

Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities

By UHN OpenLab

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.

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Data: Transit Shelters, Benches

Toronto City Council Visualizer

By Khasir Hean

Each point on the visualizer represents a councillor. Councillors who vote more similarly appear closer together.

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Data: Council Voting Record,

The Geography of Toronto's Outdoor Skating Rinks

By Jeff Allen and Teresa Lau, School of Cities, University of Toronto

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.

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Data: Outdoor Artificial Ice Rinks

RenovationWatch

By University of Toronto Scarborough

RenovationWatch.ca addresses the housing insecurity crisis in Toronto by making city building permit data for multi-unit rental housing accessible.

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Data: Active Building Permits, Address Points

Toronto Parking Tickets 2017-2020

By Malini Sinha

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.

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Data: Parking Tickets, Neighbourhoods

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.

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Data: Paramedic Services Incident Data

Analyzing Councillor Voting Behaviour

By Mark McCarthy

This project analyzed the attendance of city councillors at council meetings, and clustered city councillors based on their voting behaviour into blocs.

Website

Data: Council Meeting Attendance, Council Voting Record

TorontoSUMO­Networks

By Jahandad Baloch

Runner Up

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.

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Data: Traffic Volumes, Toronto Centreline, Traffic Signal Timing, TTC Routes and Schedules, Cycling Network, Pedestrian Network, Traffic Signals Tabular

City Hall Watcher

By Matt Elliot

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

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Data: Lobbyist Registry, Traffic Volumes, TOBids Awarded Contracts

Tabs Toronto

By Gabe Sawhney

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.

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The Geography of Complaint

By Inori Roy, The Local

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.

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Data: 311 Service Requests - Customer Initiated

Toronto Festivals & Events JSON-LD Proxy

By Jordan Armstrong

A self-maintaining, GitHub-hosted open data pipeline and static API that transforms Toronto’s festival and event listings into structured Schema.org Event data for reuse in applications, feeds, and search.

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Data: Festivals and Events