Let's use data to make Ottawa better

Ottawa Traffic Camera interface

I have created a site that allows you to display multiple traffic cameras at once based on a street name filter. https://ottawawebcams.000webhostapp.com/

https://infograph.venngage.com/ps/JprJTOw1GyQ/wallacethea_coms2200_infographick

An infographic on a case study demonstrating how large-scale construction makes the roads safer

Interactive Visualization of Bicycle Counters in Ottawa

Data from bicycle counters across Ottawa. There are 14 bicycle counters in Ottawa that track bicycle crossings on streets and bike paths. This visual app displays how daily counts change over time. Link: https://whipson.shinyapps.io/Ottawa_Bike_Counters/

Link data to Term of Council Priorities. Include the Benchmarks,Metrics and Data that enable trend analysis.Track progress to key goals.

How to make a smart city a creative city?

Here is a link to a small infographic project I made that would suggest how to make Ottawa a much more creative city! https://www.canva.com/design/DADqMxTrYgA/oYnTqw6cl9eriuWu7wA_bw/edit?category=tACFahzNhT4&utm_source=onboarding

The Former Landfills dataset is missing

The former landfill dataset from the old open data portal is no longer available (it seems it got lost in the move to the new portal). Can you please re-add? (it used to be here: http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/former-landfills)

Open311 Documentation

Hello, I think the link to the documentation is broken: https://open.ottawa.ca/documents/open311-api

Add paving contractor info to street layer

Allow residents to see who paved their street, and when it was done. Looking up RFPs are difficult for the average person. Put the info on a map and residents can click on their street and see who paved it, and when it was last done.

Parking near Fire Hydrants

It is very difficult to know even if you know how far to park from hydrants so people tend to park farther than they need to. Summer student marking where you put mousquito stuff in storm sewers could mark the hydrants as follows.. 1) paint an x on the pavement that shows clearly where one can't park. 2) have a box around it painted so drivers can see immediately this is not an available parking spot. .. not sure how datasets applies to this but this seems a nice initiative to add ideas!

Expand the breadth and powers of Open Ottawa

Expand the focus from providing datasets to fostering innovation. Putting emphasis on: - Social services development and improvement though digtalization - Increasing accountability and trust though tech - Foster tourism and growth to the internal and external public image of ottawa - Promote civic minded development, focusing on quality of life and reducing the barriers to a healthy, happy and active civic life

Disseminate the Election results and corresponding polygons at the same geographic level.

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.

More Open Transit Data

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

Ottawa Property Tax Data

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.

Public Transit: accurate, detailed and in near real time

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 around the city - most often as another number. We would do good to know when a bus comes online, when a bus is offline, when its rerouted or reassigned (to where, as what, and why) or when its broken down or otherwise stopped. }. Route: { Number, Title: { EN, FR } StartingDes: { Timestamp, Text: { EN, FR } }, EndingDes: { Timestamp, Text: { EN, FR } } }

Drop In Programs

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.