Open Data - Toronto

Enjoy the long weekend Toronto - your submitted requests will still be here Monday. Promise. 😄

For anyone who takes the TTC regularly, this one is worth a look. We just published a blog post on rideTO, an app built for daily commuters who want quick updates on arrivals, alerts, subway status, closures, and accessibility outages. Read it here: ow.ly/tiba50YZ6zr

Toronto Public Library has open data programs too. The TPL runs programs and events promoting open data because data literacy is for everyone, not just developers. Your branch might have something on 👉 tpl.ca/about-the-libr… #dataliteracy #tpl #opendata

🕐 A data request, in stages: Day 1: submitted Day 4: someone's on it Day 19: turns out this data exists in 4 different systems Day 35: we found the person who owns it Day 52: they're on vacation Day 71: data needs cleaning Day 89: published 🎉 open.toronto.ca/quarterly-upda…

Shoutout to Ilya Kreynin — the energizer bunny. He's somehow doing the work of several people at once : fielding requests, coordinating with City divisions to get data ready for publishing, moderating our monthly open data jam sessions + much more. We're lucky to have him. 💙

Toronto's 311 handled 1.58M interactions in 2025 and the City is committing to share even more data openly. Explore the full dataset (back to 2010!) on the Open Data Portal 👇 📊ow.ly/mhTl50YVKCT 📄ow.ly/uBFp50YVKCV 📄ow.ly/78Sk50YVKCU

Toronto rideshare drivers spent 50% of their time on the road unpaid in 2025 — up from 40% in 2022. 87M trips. 1.1B km driven. 35,000+ vehicles on Toronto roads. The data is public. The story is important. 👇 open.toronto.ca/dataset/privat… theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

Just wrapped an Open Data Jam 🎉 Organizers + data + local technologists = powerful solutions. Also: samosas are a meal. Join us for the next one: ow.ly/q3nt50YUAlU #Toronto #OpenDataJam

Learn about your City Council. A platform that transforms Toronto City Council data into clear, accessible insights, helping residents explore councillors’ voting records, priorities, performance. The data 👉 open.toronto.ca/dataset/member… The platform 👉 councillors.torontoinsights.com

Toronto's municipal election is October 26. Nominations open May 1. Campaigns are starting. Debates will happen. If you want to understand your ward; demographics, services, infrastructure, the data is already public. It's been there the whole time. 👉 open.toronto.ca/catalogue

Our very own Fartash Haghani will be speaking at @GO OD Conference this year about How the city is transforming its operations with AI. linkedin.com/groups/1246592… 👉Register to attend: go-opendata.ca

@JeffClark Love this!! I wonder how much has changed in almost 10 years now. The real question: are you a Tim or Starbucks guy?!

@Open_TO I did a simple project about coffee shop density in the city back in 2017. It's out of date but might be interesting. I used data from OSM neoformix.com/2017/TorontoCo…

Datasets we'd love to publish but can't: ☕ Tim Hortons vs. other coffee shop density by neighbourhood 🍁 Patio season start dates vs. actual Toronto weather, every year 🏒 Productivity loss per Leafs playoff run, by ward We publish what we can. open.toronto.ca/catalogue

Toronto is hosting 6 FIFA World Cup matches this summer. ❓Where will people come from? ❓How will they move? ❓What happens to rideshare demand on game days? 💡We don't have all the answers, but we have the data that helps find them. 👉 open.toronto.ca/catalogue

@georgebell Part 4: We can rarely publish relevant data before a council item is debated! We're increasing publishing speed, but there's lots of data - if we can't publish before the meeting, we try to after.

@Open_TO What’s the plan for the backlog though? It’s getting pretty big, lots of items being requested and not able to be completed. Bigger budget?

Did you know you can request any dataset? Our open data request page is open to everyone. Browse what others have asked for, vote on ideas you love, or submit your own. 👉 haveyoursay.toronto.ca/open-data/

@georgebell Part 3: The "like" feature on the Public Request Portal, is a great signal for us to choose which request to action next and to show our partners that people care about data and would use it.

@georgebell Part 2: We have a few sources of data to publish - graphics on toronto.ca (per GL8.22), data in staff reports (per EX22.13), & public requests. We balance these three (and other sources + ops considerations) to publish max # of datasets over time!

@georgebell Part 1: We will assign the max number of resources we can internally to get through it and catch up, but honestly we get more requests and inputs than we can action!

@Open_TO We really need to talk about the backlog through….what’s the plan for getting it done? Will there be more funding? Can we vote on which ones need to be done? How are they prioritized? Why are major debates happening and the data isn’t getting made public?

@MumbledVanities Woah! Super cool. Thanks for sharing. We'd love to feature this on our gallery page: open.toronto.ca/gallery/ You can submit your project here: ca.mar.medallia.com/?e=436008&d=l&…

@Open_TO Hi, thanks for the data. I'm using it for this: torontoshelter.info

28,522 downloads in Q1.... We still don't know who most of you are. Hi.... We don't track users. We don't ask you to sign up or log in. We don't know who's downloading the data and for what purposes. So tell us....who are you? Introduce yourself.

@mikaalnaik @TTCSwitches Hi~ There are several ways. We have a Request page open.toronto.ca/requests/; but first see if the request is there, otherwise, create a ticket and we'll monitor and reply if it's feasible. The other way is to email opendata@toronto.ca and one of our cool folks will reply to you.

@TTCSwitches @Open_TO how do I request a data set be opened up?

If we are going to improve traffic and transit in this city, you would think the first step would be to have all the traffic signal timings in an "accessible and machine-readable" format...but staff can't do it...so they are going to continue charging 130$ per intersection... #topoli