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We've updated our Cultural Hotspots Points of Interest spatial data.
It's data intended for residents and visitors to enjoy including public art, murals, buildings with historic or architectural significance, green spaces and more.
See it here:
open.toronto.ca/dataset/cult…
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…
