Here is a list of creations that make use of City of Toronto Open Data. These include citizen-powered web and mobile applications, as well as data visualizations.

Have you used our data for research, advocacy, visualizations, or apps? Let us know, we’re interested in hearing your story. Please contact opendata@toronto.ca to share your creations with us.

 

This is a high level overview of map plotting open data for the City of Toronto. This exercise utilizes the Fire Incidents API provided by CKAN Restful Web Services in conjunction with AngularJS and Google map plotting API.

Application Development Series (Toronto Open Data) – CKAN API

Toronto Wizard

Ahmed El-Khuffash

There’s a lot of city information that could make people’s lives easier, but no one knows it exists! Toronto Wizard solves this problem by providing access to this info at your fingertips.

Toronto Recycling Guide

Petr Malik

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

Catolicchldcre

Brian Sutherland

Catolicchldcre provides 50 closest child care centres to a given location using GPS, with speed dial links, of 928 centres total.

City Guide Toronto

City Guide Toronto becomes your virtual tour guide that helps you plan a walking tour, discover what is around you, and read you all the histories and facts about Toronto. The app uses Augmented Reality to help you navigate and locate places of interest.

City Wellness Atlas

City Wellness Atlas uses accessible municipal data on culture, city services and economics and map them to a mobile map of your city. Free for all on the Google Maps platform.

Cycle Now

Cycle Now is a free and easy-to-use app dedicated to improving your bike share experience. Using the trip planner, it’ll instantly find the closest bike stations to you and your destination so you don’t waste time looking for a bike or parking spot.

Mr. Bin

Mr. Bin is a household helper to find your trash pickup schedules, garbage pickup schedules, curbside trash pick up and more.

GarbageDay

With GarbageDay you won’t be wondering whether it’s garbage or recycling day anymore. GarbageDay is a mobile app solution that simplifies your experience of managing your home.

Recycle Wizard

Recycle Wizard helps you figure out how to dispose of waste responsibly using image recognition.

Rocket Man

Avisinna

Rocket Man provides real-time next TTC bus or streetcar arrival.

SeeClickFix

SeeClickFix, Inc

With SeeClickFix create and submit 311 Toronto service requests.

Toronto Beaches

LunarFrog

Up-to-date information about water quality at Toronto Beaches

Toronto Cycling App

Toronto Cycling App tracks your rides with GPS and help the City improve current cycling infrastructure and plan for future cycling investment!

Toronto Events

LunarFrog

Toronto Events provides searchable current and upcoming city events and festivals.

Toronto Eventz

SysAlto Corporation

With Toronto Eventz find events in Toronto including art exhibits, theatre and music performances, family events and celebrations.

Toronto Waste

TundraMan

Toronto Waste provides pickup schedules, reminders and searchable item database.

Transit App

Wherever you are, just pull Transit App out of your pocket and quickly see next departures for all public transit routes near you. Works in over 50 cities across North America and Europe with many more on the way.

Transit Now

Transit Now

Transit Now provides TTC riders with real-time bus and streetcar tracking features like vehicle arrival notifications and service alerts so that no ride is ever missed again! You can even share your expected arrival with your friends.

MonTransit App

MonTransit effortlessly brings the most relevant transit information to you, including: buses, ferries, subways, streetcars & trains schedules (offline & real-time) and bike stations availability as well as service alerts & the latest news from agencies web sites, blogs, Twitter, YouTube.

Toronto Crime Dashboard

Toronto Crime Dashboard is a website that helps you analyze and alert you of crimes near your address.

Budgetpedia.ca

Budgetpedia.ca is a tool to support informed debate about the Toronto budget. Specifically, provide tools for activists to facilitate insight into the Toronto budget contents, provide ready access to annual budget process information, and more.

Click That ‘Hood

Matt Keoshkerian

Click That ‘Hood is a game to correctly name Toronto’s 140 neighbourhoods.

Explore Toronto

Explore Toronto is a simple website made to explore the open data of Toronto.
New features are planned to be added often.

Garbage & Recycling Day Google Calendars

Lauren Archer

Garbage & Recycling Day Google Calendars: Toronto solid waste pick up schedules for Google, iCal, Outlook and Yahoo calendars.

Park in Toronto

Module 17

Park in Toronto provides per address representations of when parking tickets are issued within Toronto.

Represent

Open North

Represent a database of Canadian elected officials.

TTC Bus Tracker

Beyond 2.0

TTC Bus Tracker uses the TTC’s real-time data to provide users with up-to-the-minute information on transit arrival.

Toronto Public Libraries

Brian Sutherland

Toronto Public Libraries locations, links, hours and phone numbers for all branches of the Toronto Public Library.

Toronto Street Trees

Jordan Teichmann

Toronto Street Trees is a searchable map showing locations and types of city street trees.

Walkonomics.com

Walkonomics

Walkonomics.com provides maps and ratings of Toronto streets measuring walkability factors such as road safety, navigation, sidewalks, ambiance.

Waste nothing

Michael Fagan

Waste nothing: Find out how best to use and dispose of unwanted items. Share tips and events with others.

WellbeingToronto

City of Toronto

WellbeingToronto is a map-based tool that helps evaluate community wellbeing across Toronto’s neighbourhoods.

Toronto Beaches Water Quality

Beachify.ca

Toronto Beaches Water Quality is a website serving the Beaches-area of Toronto. Find out the latest E. coli test results and swim conditions for Woodbine Beach and Kew-Balmy Beach. The page also contains a graph visualizing daily E. coli counts, as well as an option to visualize the E. coli history for previous years back to 2007.

allhx.ca

Revelcloud

allhx.ca provides Canadian property information including property boundaries for the City of Toronto.

Solid Waste Pickup Schedule

Beachify.ca

Solid Waste Pickup Schedule provides garbage, recycling and organic solid waste pick-up schedule for the Beaches area.

The City’s Most Popular Dog Breeds

Julianne Kelso

The City’s Most Popular Dog Breeds

Toronto City Wards and Councillors Dashboard

Lilly Tong
Toronto City Wards and Councillors Dashboard

Telescope

Vivek Gunasekaran & Neil Chah

Use Telescope to search the City of Toronto Open Data catalogue through a network diagram visualization!

Toronto Transit Commission Delay Data

Anthony Ionno
This post utilizes Toronto Transit Commission Delay Data to identify: the most prevalent incident types by method of transit (i.e., bus, streetcar, or subway), when incidents are most likely to occur in a given day; and for how long.

CityInSight Visualization Tool

City of Toronto, TransformTO
The CityInSight Visualization Tool model forecasts the GHG emission future for Toronto between the baseline year (2011) and 2050.

Toronto EMS Locations

Brian Sutherland
Toronto EMS Locations provides station locations

Parking Ticket Data

Anthony Ionno
Parking Ticket Data provides geo-spatial visualization of the 50 most ticketed parking locations within the City of Toronto for 2016.

City’s 311 Requests

City’s 311 Requests: Noise, damaged green bins, and furniture missed during garbage pick up are some of the things Torontonians reported in 2014.

Bikeshare Trip Data (2016)

Anthony Ionno
An analysis of Toronto Parking Authority Bikeshare Trip Data (2016 Q3&Q4), including how long an individual spends riding their bike, when that person is most likely going to rent a bike, and from where.

Paramedic Services Incident Data

Anthony Ionno
An analysis of Toronto Paramedic Services Incident Data from 2012 through 2016, including the general incident type, priority and number of units arrived at scene.

Bike Share Data

Tamara Augsten
Analysis of Bike Share Toronto Ridership Data. Which bike share stations get used the most and when? (2016 Q3). Location of stations and amount of use.

Toronto Waste Wizard

Eric D’Souza

Toronto Waste Wizard: This Alexa skill provides waste management information for Toronto residents by using your device address to look up your pick-up schedule on the City of Toronto’s Waste Management pickup calendar. The skill will also remind you of recycling, waste, yard waste and Christmas tree pickup schedules for the week.