Let's use data to make Ottawa better
We want to hear from you.
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 ideasContinue reading
View All Ideas10 months ago
Add Ward Look Up tool to Apps listed on Open Data Site
Add link/info for this app: https://app01.ottawa.ca/wardlookup/wardSearch.jsf
6 months ago
List of non-smoking buildings
Many non-smoking building have tonnes of grandfathered (permitted to continue smoking) tenants. When they smoke inside their room, it ends up circulating across the whole building. Listing non-smoking transitional status could work. The simplest way to do this is to list the building population and when the non-smoking rule is implemented. Example: building population = 100, non-smoking rule implemented = August 13, 2019. That would insinuate that there are grandfathered smoking tenants.
6 months ago
Data that would show which roads have the most speeders (both in quantity and speed)
Data that would show which roads have the most speeders (both in quantity and speed)
6 months ago
List of buildings by rental price
Approximate price could work too.
8 months ago
A Indigenous park that has cultural themes
A park that has art work , cultural murals and statues that emphasis the Indigenous cultures of Canada ( ex) igloo park and tepee village with animals such as moose and caribou and wolves , plants to beautify the park
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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 theContinue readingView All Ideas3 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)
6 months 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!
4 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 20 hours ago
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.
8 months 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 theContinue reading
View All Ideas3 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/
10 months 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 ❤
about 1 month 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
about 2 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 Continue reading
