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Project creators love the data published by Transportation Services!
A recent example: A map of permanent bike counters and their counts: ow.ly/eTsJ50ZYwHU
Learn about the data, the projects and the people at Open Data Jam 10 on November 5 - ow.ly/UyeF50ZYwHT
Interesting Civic Tech Toronto Talk coming up:
A demo of the Canadian Urban Institute's Measuring Main Streets tool, which analyzes data on demographics, housing development potential, and community amenities around transit station areas.
Register here:
guild.host/events/civic-meet…
Are you involved in a project that you want posted on Toronto's Open Data Project Gallery? (open.toronto.ca/gallery/)
If so, you should let us know! Submit a project for consideration here:
ca.mar.medallia.com/?e=43600…
Transportation Services have 71 open datasets - the most of any publisher!
Learn about the data, the projects and the people behind both at Open Data Jam 10 on November 5 - Open Data Jam - Transportation Data!
luma.com/te9wa9xz
📊Q3 2026 Open Data Report is out📊
We talk about what we've been up to, where we succeeded, where we didn't, and where we're going next.
Read it all here:
open.toronto.ca/quarterly-up…
📰New blog post from guest contributor Amely Su: Abandoned Places And Where to Find Them (with Toronto’s Open Data) 📰
Read it here:
open.toronto.ca/abandoned-pl…
Toronto Open Data has relied on open source software forever. For years, that's included CKAN, an open-source data management system used on every continent (except Antarctica lol)
You can learn more here:
ecosystem.ckan.org/
🎉We fixed our Festival and Events Feed🎉
We really apologize for its outage, as we know a lot of projects make great use of it.
The data is here: open.toronto.ca/dataset/fest…
🏠We've added new attributes to our Affordable Housing Dataset🏠
You can now identify how many supportive units are in each record, and whether they are part of the Toronto Builds Portfolio
Here's the data: open.toronto.ca/dataset/upco…
🐁We recently updated our Residential Health Hazard Dataset 🐛
Initially, this dataset listed inspections. Now, to work better with the city's Rental Building Violations Project, the data lists when health hazards have been identified.
The data: ow.ly/ZQL050ZQOyl
🙆♂️We want to warn apps of breaking changes (to data) before they happen🙆♂️
So we're working on a CKAN extension to do just that. It's not ready yet, but if folks want to lend any thoughts or get involved in the discussion, you can on the CKAN GitHub:
🔗 github.com/ckan/ckan/discuss…
🎉That's a wrap on our 9th Open Data Jam!
We got to see @TorontoPolice show the tools and technique they use for publishing data, and then saw the apps that folks have built on top of them.
Jam #10 is Nov 5th!
Register here: luma.com/open-data-to?e=evt-…
🟧Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation🟧
It's an opportunity to acknowledge the ongoing impacts of residential and day schools, remember those who were lost, and honour survivors and their families.
Learn more:
toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/fes…
🖼️We added new projects to our gallery 🖼️
These aren't our projects; they're projects created on top of Toronto Open Data by all kinds of people.
If you have a project...
Tell us about it:
ca.mar.medallia.com/?e=43600…
Submit it for the Open Data Awards:
open.toronto.ca/toronto-open…
Torontonians do some amazing work using open data from Toronto Police Services!
See some of it here:
open.toronto.ca/gallery/?sea…
And come meet the TPS open data team!
Open Data Jam 9 is on September 30th - register here: luma.com/mhmz5e85
This #RightToKnowWeek, we’re glad to be featured in the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario's Transparency Showcase 3.0, highlighting how transparency and open data benefit Ontarians.
They made a 3D gallery showcasing other groups like ours: transparencyshowcase.ipc.on.…
🦋The Beaches BIA is making it easy to look at cool plants and animals in the neighborhood 🌳
Using data from our site and iNaturalist, they've mapped routes where you can see the good stuff!
See it here: beachmetro.com/2026/09/15/bi…
And more: thebeachbia.com/attractions-…
Toronto Public Health compiles population health indicators for the city - things like oral , reproductive, and mental health (among others) are all all there.
The data is public!
The dashboard: ontariohealthprofiles.ca/tor…
The data: open.toronto.ca/dataset/toro…
❓Do any Torontonians use toronto.ca? ❓
Toronto Open Data publishes that: top viewed pages, bounce rates, devices used, where traffic is coming from, and more all downloadable, from 2014 to today :)
See it here: open.toronto.ca/dataset/web-…
