Let's use data to make Ottawa better

Is there a City of Ottawa dataset you would like to access?
Do you have a suggestion for improving the Open Ottawa website from a usability or accessibility perspective?
Have you built something or done analysis with City data that you would like to share?
If so, we want to hear from you!
Open Ottawa engages people like you, members of our community to build data solutions -- together -- to make Ottawa better. The City looks forward to hearing from you in the Ideas Section below. Take our quick poll on your favourite data formats and check out the stories in the News Feed. The Engagement Calendar will soon be updated to show opportunities to connect with the Open Data Team at public events.
All feedback on this site is publicly posted as our goal is to deliver open and transparent stakeholder engagement. Content is moderated by the platform, Bang The Table. Requests for data will be discussed with the appropriate City department. Departments are required to review and respond to data requests every three months.
Is there a City of Ottawa dataset you would like to access?
Do you have a suggestion for improving the Open Ottawa website from a usability or accessibility perspective?
Have you built something or done analysis with City data that you would like to share?
If so, we want to hear from you!
Open Ottawa engages people like you, members of our community to build data solutions -- together -- to make Ottawa better. The City looks forward to hearing from you in the Ideas Section below. Take our quick poll on your favourite data formats and check out the stories in the News Feed. The Engagement Calendar will soon be updated to show opportunities to connect with the Open Data Team at public events.
All feedback on this site is publicly posted as our goal is to deliver open and transparent stakeholder engagement. Content is moderated by the platform, Bang The Table. Requests for data will be discussed with the appropriate City department. Departments are required to review and respond to data requests every three months.
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How have you used City of Ottawa's data to make something amazing?
over 4 years agoThese ideas could be something that you are currently working on, or have completed. Share a link to any product you have created using City of Ottawa data.
Examples: map, mobile app, visualization, story, class project, etc.
Like or comment on existing ideas to show your support.
Please note that the Ideas Tool is moderated by the platform operator (Bang The Table) and the aim of this tool is to encourage citizen comments and provide ideas related to the specific project. If you have questions on how to use Engage Ottawa or comments about any of the tools in the platform, please share any and all feedback here <https://engage.ottawa.ca/why-engage>.
craynor7 months agoImproving collection of Ottawa's coyote data
The City currently collects data on coyote sightings using an online form (https://so311.serviceottawa.ca/selfserve/?reqId=2000190&lang=en). In its current iteration however, the form does not prompt the user for any details that will be useful to inform the 2023-planned development of a Coyote Management Plan. In reality, the fact that a Plan can be developed without yet having any of this information is a real concern. Modifications to the form to obtain specific data such as: - date, time, and duration of the interaction (is it mating or pupping season?) - type of interaction (i.e. sighting, encounter, incident, pet attack: Attended/Unattended, Human Attack, etc) - presence of attractants (garbage, intentional wildlife feeding, pet food) - if it involved a pet was the pet leashed? - human behaviour prior to and after the interaction and be worded carefully to avoid creating any potential bias (the form currently refers to a report of the "problem" and asks the user to explain the "issue").
2 comments0Roland7896 months agoLink data to Term of Council Priorities. Include the Benchmarks,Metrics and Data that enable trend analysis.Track progress to key goals.
1 comment0Justin Kellyover 4 years agoPotSnap: Messenger based high speed pothole reporting
http://potsnap.ca/ https://www.facebook.com/PotSnap https://m.me/PotSnap https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-pothole-reporting-fill-app-1.5073348 PotSnap is an Facebook Messenger based, automated pothole reporting tool. Potsnap is very simple to use. It only asks a few simple questions and then reports your pothole anonymously to the City of Ottawa. PotSnap is faster then any other means and hopes to be the tool of choice for Canada’s Pothole hunters. PotSnap is also a proof of concept of a first party tool, for the Universal Reporting System. It demonstrates the use of an independent API to service Endpoints with service requests, using the Open 311 framework provided by the City of Ottawa. The URT expands on the base provided by the City and provides richer feature set that focuses on reducing and eliminating common pain points for governance. Created by Citizen Softworks from Bayshore with ❤
0 comment0Thea Foss Wallacealmost 4 years agohttps://infograph.venngage.com/ps/JprJTOw1GyQ/wallacethea_coms2200_infographick
An infographic on a case study demonstrating how large-scale construction makes the roads safer
1 comment0wookiiieeeover 1 year agoOttawa 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/
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How would you improve Open Ottawa?
over 4 years agoDid you find what you are looking for? Do you like the layout and applications within the site? Have you experienced any trouble accessing a data set, page, or application? What suggestions do you have to improve the site?
Like or comment on existing ideas to show your support.
Please note that the Ideas Tool is moderated by the platform operator (Bang The Table) and the aim of this tool is to encourage citizen comments and provide ideas related to the specific project. If you have questions on how to use Engage Ottawa or comments about any of the tools in the platform, please share any and all feedback here <https://engage.ottawa.ca/why-engage>.
danutfmalmost 4 years agoThe 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)
2 comments0Matthew Darwinabout 4 years agoUse OpenStreetMap base layer
The OpenStreetMap community in Ottawa is very active and works to quickly include updates from open.ottawa.ca into the base map in a timely fashion. The old CKAN based portal uses OSM base map. The new open.ottawa.ca should also use OSM base map. In the ESRI platform, the city can customize which OSM elements appear on the map using vector tiles. https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-living-atlas/mapping/new-osm-vector-basemap/
1 comment4Denis Shleifmanalmost 2 years agoMore data should be downloadable
Datasets used to create graphs and infographics should be available for download
1 comment0Roland7895 months agoUse portal to track progress to key O.P. and Master Plan goals
2 comments0Matthew Darwinabout 4 years agoImprove the URLs
The URL for construction projects is https://open.ottawa.ca/datasets/b2395e56baf148ee88eef9e20c43e12c_1/data. All those jumble of alpha-numeric characters are not intuitive. https://open.ottawa.ca/datasets/construction/data or similar would be much better
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What new data sets would you like to see?
over 4 years agoSuggest a new dataset for the City to publish and share with us how you plan to use that data.
Like or comment on existing ideas to show your support and desire for these datasets.
Ideas are reviewed on a quarterly basis by City departments. Approved ideas are adding to the department’s annual open data release plan. If a dataset cannot be released, the rationale will be posted on Engage Ottawa.
Please note that the Ideas Tool is moderated by the platform operator (Bang The Table) and the aim of this tool is to encourage citizen comments and provide ideas related to the specific project. If you have questions on how to use Engage Ottawa or comments about any of the tools in the platform, please share any and all feedback here <https://engage.ottawa.ca/why-engage>.
james2432about 4 years agoStreet lights dataset accuracy needs an update
https://open.ottawa.ca/datasets/street-lights should be 0-30m accuracy, not 0-2m
3 comments2mecha3about 4 years agoList of buildings by rental price
Approximate price could work too.
1 comment1Rolf Campbellover 4 years agoReal time traffic accident data
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.
4 comments8Patrick Bickerton10 months agoRevenue per property (or equivalent)
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.
3 comments8Matthew Darwinalmost 4 years agoAdd RSS feed for engage ottawa
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.
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How would you make Open Ottawa more inclusive?
over 4 years agoThe City of Ottawa is committed to creating an accessible organization. Creating accessible service and program delivery channels is one way we are removing barriers for people with disabilities. Tell us how we are doing. Share your ideas on how we can make Open Ottawa more inclusive.
Like or comment on existing ideas to show your support.Please note that the Ideas Tool is moderated by the platform operator (Bang The Table) and the aim of this tool is to encourage citizen comments and provide ideas related to the specific project. If you have questions on how to use Engage Ottawa or comments about any of the tools in the platform, please share any and all feedback here <https://engage.ottawa.ca/why-engage>.
Who's listening
Engagement Calendar
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October 06 2020
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September 23 2020
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August 31 → September 04 2020
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September 21 2020
2019 Open Ottawa
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Open Ottawa Beta Launch
Let's use data to make Ottawa better has finished this stageApril 02, 2019 - The City of Ottawa launches Open Ottawa beta website
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Beta Test Period
Let's use data to make Ottawa better has finished this stageApril 2019 - August 2019 Understand the needs & priorities of the community (user experience, data needs & data uses)
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Open Ottawa Production Launch Decision
Let's use data to make Ottawa better has finished this stageSeptember 2019 - Based on feedback from the community and internal testing, determine if the beta Open Ottawa website can be moved to production and the existing data.ottawa.ca website can be retired.
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Open Data Plan Development
Let's use data to make Ottawa better has finished this stageFall 2019 - Based on the community feedback received during the beta test period in terms of needs and priority, develop a plan with the community to continue to evolve the Open Data Program over this term of Council.
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Open Data Plan Review by IT Sub Committee
Let's use data to make Ottawa better is currently at this stageSeptember 2020 - Present the Open Data Plan at IT Sub Committee.