Toronto Open Data

Scarborough has some amazing Open Data champions 🏆 Spearheaded by Councillor Jamaal Myers and built by Derek Song, the Scarborough North Community Map highlights critical improvements, projects, services, and resources for its residents - and won a 2026 Open Data Award! Using 311 wildlife calls to protect both drivers and animals, University of Toronto Scarborough's Andrew Bachus's SafePassage got a 2026 Open Data Award Honourable Mention for innovation! Civics students at Père-Philippe-Lamarche got to be city planners for a day, using open data to explore their neighbourhoods and propose improvements to them! Join us next Wednesday July 22 6-8pm at Scarborough Civic Centre to learn about the open data program and how you can make an impact with it - register below, and see you there! https://luma.com/rb38f1hw

Mark your calendars Scarborough - Open Data Jam #7 is coming your way! When - July 22 (next Wednesday!), 6-8pm Where - Scarborough Civic Centre What - see how Open Data works at the City of Toronto and the incredible things Scarberians are already doing with it, meet the people behind both, and learn how you can get involved! There may be some special guests coming to speak - stay tuned 👀 Register here, tell your friends, see you there! https://luma.com/rb38f1hw

We recently upgraded our Dining Inspections open dataset: https://lnkd.in/edBryCCD - More historic data - Historic and Current IDs for establishments - Omitted inspections bug fix

One thing I've always found tricky in the open data world: knowing who's actually publishing data in Canada. That's why I'm really glad the Canadian Open Data Directory exists. It's a free, bilingual, crowdsourced directory that helps you find Canadian organizations publishing open data... all in one searchable place. If you work in or around open data in Canada, bookmark this. And if your organization is publishing data and isn't listed yet, add it. https://lnkd.in/eXWtjmq8

We upgraded our PCards Expenditures Open Dataset, which lists all purchases made by City staff members using City-issued credit cards. It's now: - In one machine-readable file - Available via our API - Explore-able directly in the browser https://lnkd.in/eDPbevDJ

Did you know that 94.54% of people have no idea we are your biggest fans? It’s a completely real, totally non-fictional stat. If you’re a developer, analyst, or designer who has used our data to build something cool, we want to feature you next. 👉 Take a look at the four new gallery additions and link to submit your own project:

@Jessie Ye from the University of Toronto just published a critical new study: "Road Work Ahead - The Impact of Construction on Cyclist Safety in Toronto." 🚴♂️⚠️ By diving deep into our Killed and Serious Injured (KSI) and Road Restrictions datasets, Jesse’s research highlights exactly how street work impacts rider safety. Incredible work turning raw municipal data into actionable, life-saving insights. Read the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/enJRmiXA

Thanks to the Toronto Public Library for hosting and participating in our June Open Data Jam, and to Benny Goldman, creator of the TPL Passport App, for presenting! We spoke to folks about ideas for new library datasets and what problems people experienced when using https://open.toronto.ca/

The Open Data team is officially heading to the library TODAY 📚🙌 We are so excited to partner with TPL this Thursday, June 25th at 6 PM for Open Data Jam #6. If you want to connect with fellow civic tech enthusiasts, hear fresh organizer perspectives, and help shape the future of Toronto's data portal, this is where you need to be. Secure your spot below! 👇 https://ow.ly/zFST50ZcUN6

Attention web developers and local creators! Looking for your next summer project idea? The City of Toronto Open Data team has a massive lineup of goodie datasets, and we’ve summarized the best ones for you in our new blog post Take a look and see what catches your eye: ➡️ https://ow.ly/TMeT50ZfiIv