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For citizens to be able to map and visualize routes/the OC Transpo network, shapefiles are the easiest way to import to any GIS reader. The CSV files provide a lot of extra data (stops, arrival times, etc), but don't give a super clear look at the shape of the routes or the network.

The GTFS file for the current transit routes is posted on the Open Data portal. However, OC Transpo plans route changes well in advance... They have already announced what is coming on October 6. It would be great if the open data portal has both the "Current" and "Future" transit files. This way consumers can prepare ahead of when the changes are actually launched.

Data is over on https://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/planning-and-development/heritage-conservation/heritage-watch-list but not available as a dataset as far as I know.

Snow removal process in the City of Ottawa

Gentrification typically means the loss of low income rentals and the growth of luxury rentals. Do we have data we can use to map this?

https://open.ottawa.ca/datasets/street-lights should be 0-30m accuracy, not 0-2m

For any topic in engage ottawa I should be able to get an RSS feed for any new topics posted. Also there should be an RSS feed to know about all the new topics that area available for engagement.

Would be useful if the http://maps.ottawa.ca/geoottawa was made public in a kml file

The city should be regularly collecting and reporting on OC transpo ridership numbers disaggregated by sex. The city should provide all of its datasets disaggregated by sex. Men and women use public transit differently and policy should be informed by accurate data on the end-users.

We invest in the revitalization on a cycle basis, but we do not have concrete and strong data to drive decisions

This would be a part of an application that tells you when busy times are at grocery/retailers stores. The idea would be to have stores share their store layout (map) and where their products are in the diagram. (make sure all items remain in the same place) The user then would add random items on their shopping cart and once done, it would organize all the items in sequence where the shopper can enter the store and pick up the items in order. This will avoid shoppers wondering around looking for items and cutting down on the amount of time the shopper spends inside. I only have the idea someone would have to integrate this idea into an application.

It would be interesting to see the change in the businesses in a ward by seeing the type of business licenses issue by address. I suspect you can chart the health of a community by tracking affluent boutiques vs high business turnover.

We have: https://maps.ottawa.ca/GeoOttawaLite/?appid=2bf5e018b5b34d668305f15a7ad581c8, but it is not available as a usable filterable list having column to describe the location of the planned construction in text format. (you can see the information only visually on a map)

A directory of public bathrooms (not those "must be a paying customer" bathrooms) would make more-rural areas less perilous for those with relevant illnesses. Not exactly needed downtown.

The city maintains two datasets of collision data. One (allcollisions) indicates detail such as weather conditions, lighting, etc. The other (collisionsbyfrequency) provides a talley of how many cyclists and pedestrians are involved in a collision. These sets should be joined, or a new data set created, so that we can query all collisions involving bike or cyclists and see useful details associated with the accident.

Please add a layer in geoOttawa that displays roads colour coded by posted speed limit

OC Transpo has a target of 90% schedule adherence. While OC-Transpo provides schedule adherence data for its bus routes, it does not for the Trillium or Confederation O-Train lines. This data should also be made publicly available so that the public can monitor OC Transpo's progress on reaching its 90% schedule adherence target.

I got robbed twice and I want to know how safe my area is - not just the ones advertised on tv! https://geodash.vpd.ca/opendata/ (example) integration with my app or anything else( https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/whats-in-your-hood/id1496695806)

Previously, someone had an idea to add more data to the collision dataset, the idea wasn't accepted because you want to keep one collision = one entry. I want to reiterate the idea, but within this requirement you have set. I'd like to take age / gender and using categorical variables assign a count or a flag to each collision. So, you'd still have 2 cars, 5 persons but a further breakdown of 2 men, 1 woman, and 2 children. For example. Or, if that is too hard, just simply a flag for whether or not the collision involved injured children. There, still have one collision = one entry but that extra information can be incorporated.

OC Transpo needs to make much more of its RAW data (including archival data) on ridership and performance available for research purposes.

Just like anyone that has the privilege to own a vehicle it must be licensed, registered and insured which helps the economy for maintaining, repairing and creating roadways. Many cyclists ride without proper safety precautions, lights at night, no reflectors, darting in and out of traffic, not using proper HTA rules at stop signs, red lights, etc. Some cyclists will ride in the middle of the traffic lanes impeding vehicles stuck behind them. I understand that cycling is great exercise, causes no pollution and is a great way to get around but it's been my experience as a professional driver that I see more cyclists abusing their right of way even though the City has spent and is spending a lot of money which as a tax payer we all have to pay for. In order to lessen the tax increases for those of us that do not use or rarely use cycling to get around then why not input a yearly license and registration fee specifically for cyclists so they can enjoy and adhere to all the same HTA rules motorists are required to do. The fees collected would be used to help produce, maintain and repair bicycle lanes for all cyclists and possibly help ensure they follow and practice the same motor vehicle rules which I believe could help everyone on the roads.

Given that these scooter companies (Lime, Bird, etc.) are operating on public infrastructure, I would like to see their GBFS (up-to-date available vehicle locations) made available in the same way that they are in both Calgary and Edmonton (e.g., https://data.calgary.ca/Transportation-Transit/Calgary-Bike-and-Scooter-Share/bwkw-h2bc). Thanks.

Provide daily traffic volume counts on all streets that the City has data for. Provide bike counter data. Provide intersection traffic volumes in a single spreadsheet (rather than multiple years, as currently provided).

As part of city policy where there is a major infrastructure project, the city requires an public art component to be created. (https://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/your-city-government/policies-and-administrative-structure/administrative-policies#public-art-policy). Please list the location of all the public art, the artist, and the details behind the installation (idea, meaning, etc). Photo would be nice too. Example, selected public arts projects are published here: https://ottawa.ca/en/arts-heritage-and-events/public-art

Recently the Ottawa Citizen published an article which included a graph provided by Ian Douglas from the City, of Ottawa River water temp at the Brittania water treatment plant...this should be on the open data portal

I've seen that we can't have shape files for existing structures or where precisely property boundaries lie, but can we have just the parcel geometry data available as a data set? Things like lot area, lot width and lot depth would be very helpful to understand how current zoning rules (as written) could actually be applied to a neighbourhood.

The existing Municipal Address Point dataset would be greatly enhanced by including the Roll Number of each address and would facilitate research and analysis effort. The Roll Number contains no personal or financial information and is already presented in the AgMaps webmap on a case by case basis. Thank you.

An interesting data point / column to add to the .csv's available from OPH would be "Cumulative Cases in Hospital by 10-Year Age Groupings" and/or "Cumulative Cases in ICU by 10-Year Age Groupings". This would indicate which demographics are particularly vulnerable to COVID, which could help families in their risk management strategies.

The tax roll books are already available for public viewing at City Hall Laurier however they are not accessible in any modern sense of the word. The public cannot access these electronically, take picture, or photocopies and are limited to taking hand notes. The level of protection for public information is inconsistent with the principles of the Ontario Open Data Directive "When government data can be made available to the public, it will be released over the internet in an open format, at no charge to the user, and will be released under the Open Government Licence – Ontario (see Appendix A) and/or a similar open licence where appropriate." Where 'open format' means "a set of specifications used to store and transmit digital data that is platform independent, machine-readable, vendor-neutral, standardized where possible, and made available to the public without restrictions that would impede the re-use of that data." Emphasis on 'machine readable'. Thank you for your consideration

Add link/info to: https://app01.ottawa.ca/postingplans/home.jsf?lang=en City's plans to replace this tool could be noted as part of info provided.

Each traffic light operates according to a ruleset that determines when it switches. Beg buttons, in-road sensors and dependencies on other lights can impact switches in a manner that is complicated to determine without the ruleset. When this data is available, communities will be able to help the city identify opportunities to improve safety for all road users.

The idea here is for radical transparency around property taxes. Publish a data set for residential addresses and the property taxes paid for the address. Ideally the data set would also include ward information and then a breakdown of the property taxes, but to start the total property tax paid would be great. This data would allow researchers to identify the amounts that wards pay in property taxes and provide a comparative analysis against wards that generate tax dollars and wards that don’t.

The city should release real-time traffic accident data. Occasionally, (usually during a winter storm) the Ottawa Police will announce on twitter how many traffic accidents have been reported so far that day. I would like to get consistent real-time access to that data to provide useful information about how dangerous each day's commute is. I run the @YOW_Weather twitter account that uses real-time weather data to produce alerts and I would like to use real-time traffic accident data to do the same thing. This could be very useful information to allow people to decide whether they should drive during any particular winter storm.

Data that would show which roads have the most speeders (both in quantity and speed)

I often access the GTFS (Google Transit) data which changes several times per year. Is there a way to get a notification when new data is posted? In another question, I downloaded a version today that did not include the June 2022 updates to schedules. Was that by design and when can we get the June data as these schedules to into effect this monrht.

As of now, the Annual Financial Statements page (https://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/budget-finance-and-corporate-planning/financial-reports-and-statements/annual-financial-statements) goes as far back as the year 2020. However, it has also shown links to the 2018 and 2019 statements. If there's no interest in putting up the links to the older statements there, there should be another way to access these documents. The online archives tool has been retired due to a lack of accessibility compliance, so access to these documents remains inaccessible online until a newer solution is introduced.

Super nice to see the 2022 election results and geography up so quickly, thanks folks. It would be nice to have a precinct polygons to go with the data (I realize the dissolve of the voting subdivision layer is not too tricky, but still a barrier) It would also be nice to have the precinct number on the results table in its own field (separate from the voting place) to make the join between geography and result easier.

The city collects taxes on all private properties in order to fund city services. While the aggregate municipal tax revenue is reported in the annual budgets, the breakdown of municipal tax levied by property (or related but less accurate information such as assessed land value, assessed building value etc) is not easily available at scale, even for previous tax years. Ideally, this information would be added to the Municipal Address Points Dataset. One potential use of this information is to compare the amount of tax levied per property to the size (area) of property to determine the financial productivity and health of the city.

It would be helpful to add the zoning code as an attribute to all properties within the Municipal Address Points data table.

Providing free access to Property boundary will inform community about size, type and location of properties to avoid land tenure issues and provide more accurate process for development studies.

eg https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1PA6aTWTOa6nfBTJ_mi0XNs31vq57akWX&usp=sharing I am interested in demographics - racial makeup, age distribution, income distributio - all ONS info.

Developers must currently rely on a proprietary API with a limited polling rate to develop apps that deliver real-time arrival information to OC Transpo clients. OC Transpo should seriously consider adopting the GTFS-rt specification, as the STO have recently done.

Is there a way to provide details of minor zoning variance requests and what was granted as a data file, or to start collecting this in a tabular form on a go-forward basis? Currently, you need to search in development application PDF's to find if someone wants a variance on things like setbacks, lot sizes and the like. I would like to understand in aggregate how frequently the existing zoning regulations are allowed to vary and to what extent.

The web site https://ottawa.ca/en/residents/recreation-and-parks/drop-in-programs keeps getting broken. Please make all the information available as open data that is updated every few minutes as the schedules changes (to get last minute cancellations). I want to build a calendar of my preferred options.

Benchmarks, Metrics & Annual Data

I'd like to see a feed with weekly public swim data, including location, time, type, and other relevant qualifiers. All the data is currently spread across the Ottawa website and difficult to navigate. Having access to this data would enable useful apps for browsing the data and be quite useful to residents. The data set could be further improved by including other drop-in rec activity data as well.

Add link/info for this app: http://www.locateottawa.ca/ Found here on Ottawa.ca: https://ottawa.ca/en/business/business-assistance-and-growth/tools-and-resources

Can be used to provide better information when selecting bus trips based on multiple possible routes: riders will be able to choose between the fastest, or the most reliable. Riders will often choose the most reliable if they have that information, instead of taking the risk to be late.

The City of Toronto has a tool for examining all votes by members of city council: http://app.toronto.ca/tmmis/getAdminReport.do?function=prepareMemberVoteReport Ottawa implementing something similar would be useful in tracking city councillors across their terms without having to pull the information manually from each council or committee minutes.

Public mass transit is the lifeblood of any major city. Its full adoption solves so many headache woes for the growing city. In a effort to arm users of open data to visualize, develop for, analyze, measure the quality and growth of our services. It is important that this data is produced and maintained from an accurate and reliable common source. While there issues surrounding exporting that data, I feel that having this data set exposed in near real time will allow for the start of development of a host of improvements to ridership. As well as more informed and accurate discussions about reliability and service quality. Having this data in both solid form, as well as a event broadcasting API (which can be build by us/others) would allow for users of this data to provide real time responses to bus cancellations/rerouts/name changes/ect. The trickle down of this can play into a host of other applications, including: - Realtime routing - Alerts - Service notifications - Urban desirability indexes - People/Traffic flow analyzation - Road use/lifespan indexs or any data analyzation that benefits from accurate bus location and travel. I recommend the following fields: { ReportTimeStamp, TypeOfReport, // info notice, cancellation, maintenance request, etc. BusID, IsRemote, // Flag for reports that are reported on behalf of a bus, / or have no location data GPS: { // Location of the bus when the report was made Lat, Long }, // Important fields for why and perhaps how (as a later follow up field). Powered by a enumerated list of standard choices. why: { ReasonType: Text: // The important idea here is to mark nearly exactly why, rather then a generic "cancellation" or "information". This is important so that we can split the data along lines. For example not all "cancellations" are cancellations. Every time a bus changes its name or route, in some datasets its considered cancelled, because the bus "stopped" and its "gone". But in reality, that bus and its driver is flying a

Hi there, As an avid swimmer and part time developer, I'd like to build an app that makes it easier to display lane swims from all facilities, and filter by location, day, time of day, etc. I've built an app that scrapes the lane swim tables but the data in there is quite inconsistent. Is there an API or data repository that gets updated regularly with all pools/facilities and hours of operation for different activities? Thanks Kevin

Currently the latest traffic collision dataset goes back to November 2022, an update to current timeline would greatly help research

I would like to see a GIS dataset of building permits issued to new developments, the number of residential units, commercial/industrial square footage, and the amount paid to the city in Development Charges. Also, if possible, start and completion dates. Historical records going back as far as possible would be amazing.

Maintenance and replacement costs of road infrastructure are reported as a cost per lane-kilometer. The number of lanes should be included in the "Road Centerline" dataset

City staff place orange paint around sidewalk potholes when they notice them. Those ones are then noted for asphalt repair somewhere. It would be nice to get that data out into the public. The data doesn't need to be exact GPS. Block level data would be fine. As a community association, we are trying to to encourage more walking in our neighbourhood. It would help us know the state of sidewalks by knowing where city staff have noted potholes and where they have been repaired in the past year. Right now, I can only tell the status of sidewalk I have personally walked. The city staff rating of condition would be useful - excellent, good or poor. with all poor rates marked as recently repaired or repair pending. Typically poor rates means there is an accessibility concern and that the side walk will be difficult to plow.

1- Update the Cycling network data (last updated 2021). 2- Create second data stream with the 2023 Approved Active Transportation Projects, and differentiate those scheduled to start in next 2 years. 3- Create third data stream with cycling projects that will be done through road repairs and integrated road and sewer programs.

The automated speed enforcement infraction dataset would be enhanced by providing a statistic on the time of day of infractions. This would improve our understanding of the interaction between congestion, speed and safety.