Go Skate Toronto

By Grayt Apps

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.

Data: Outdoor Artificial Ice Rinks, Indoor Ice Rinks, Registered Programs and Drop In Courses Offering

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!

Visit transitnowapp.com

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

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.

Visit tobus.ca

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

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).

Visit Bikespace.ca

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

Visit the urban data centre website

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

Visit respitely.org

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.

Visit Website

Data: Building Permits-Active Permits, Toronto Address Points

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

Visit the map

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

Visit the website

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.

Visit the Github Repo

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.

Visit the Github

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.

Visit the website

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.

Visit the map

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.

Visit renovationwatch.ca

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.

Visit their shared drive

Data: Parking Tickets, Neighbourhoods

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.

Visit the Github

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

Visit the website

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