Let's use data to make Ottawa better

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Date/time when streets and sidewalks have been plowed

I would like to be able to see when a given street or sidewalk was last plowed. By comparing with the time that the snowfall ended, it would be possible to track how well the City is meeting its stated maintenance standards. It would also be possible to map which areas of the city are receiving the best (or worst) service. https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/data-and-the-war-on-snow-how-ottawa-could-share-plow-information-but-chooses-not-to

Rental residences with cost of rental over time

Gentrification typically means the loss of low income rentals and the growth of luxury rentals. Do we have data we can use to map this?

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.

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 } } }

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

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)

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!

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.

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

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

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 ❤

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/