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As part of the City of Ottawa's Smart City 2.0 Strategy, Open Ottawa engages people like you, members of our community to build data solutions -- together -- to make Ottawa better. The City is using digital channels to:
- Listen to you,
- Understand your data needs,
- Learn how you are using data to solve civic issues, and
- Get your insights on the usability and inclusiveness of our website.
The City looks forward to hearing from you in the Ideas Section below. Take our quick poll on your favourite data types and check out the stories in the News Feed. All of the feedback on this site is publicly posted as our goal is to deliver open and transparent stakeholder engagement.
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Suggest a new dataset for the City to publish and share with us how you plan to use that data.
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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>.
View All Ideas2 months ago
Mandatory Yearly Bicycle License and Registration Fees
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.
4 months ago
Easy flow groceries
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.
about 1 year ago
Public bathrooms in less urbanized areas
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.
over 1 year ago
Add Development Application Search tool Apps
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.
over 1 year ago
This "idea" function barely works
I want to add more info and an image, but it always fails to upload. And, since there's no other obvious forum to provide feedback... here's mine. I've tired .jpeg, .png, and the image is under 200 kb. It looksl ike it works, but then fails to upload. Once I've tried uploading the image, this form won't accept any more updates, even if I remove the image. Using Firefox browser. Hopefully you can get these sort of kinks worked out (and add a way to provide feedback about the site). I like the direction this is going!
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Did 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>.
View All Ideasover 1 year ago
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
11 months ago
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)
12 months ago
Use 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/
about 1 year ago
Improve 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
over 1 year ago
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!
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These 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>.
View All Ideas11 months ago
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/
9 months ago
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
over 1 year ago
PotSnap: 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 ❤
10 months ago
https://infograph.venngage.com/ps/JprJTOw1GyQ/wallacethea_coms2200_infographick
An infographic on a case study demonstrating how large-scale construction makes the roads safer
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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>.
