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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.
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>.
View All Ideasabout 2 years ago
Public and private childcare establishments along with number of children
Young families may wish to seek homes where they are many childcare providers.
12 months ago
More Detailed Traffic Data
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).
over 2 years ago
Real 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.
7 months ago
Public Art locations and background
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
over 2 years ago
Reliability data of OCtranspo bus routes
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.
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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 Ideasalmost 2 years 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)
16 days ago
Open311 Documentation
Hello, I think the link to the documentation is broken: https://open.ottawa.ca/documents/open311-api
over 2 years 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
almost 2 years ago
Create more fenced-in dog parks
We would love to see more fenced-in dog parks in the city, particularly ones that are integrated in with parks (with walkways and trees/vegetation, rather than just a large, cleared out open area with mulch and/or dirt). One great opportunity in our neighbourhood is the park that is currently undergoing some renewal in the Kingsview Park area (just south of Vanier Parkway, near the Saint Patrick St bridge). Our dog cannot be let off-leash unless it is in a fenced-in area so more of these kinds of areas would be really great for other dog-owners like us!
almost 2 years 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
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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 Ideasover 2 years 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 ❤
over 1 year 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
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/
over 1 year 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>.
