Toronto open data

On this block.

Type an address, or use your location. See who just got a licence, what is allowed to be built, what is coming down, which nights can be loud, and which city events are on the calendar.

Four corners of the city are waiting on the chips above.

Queen West is the core. Euclid is a sixplex fight in the west end, and also a different Euclid in Scarborough. Markham Rd is a tower. Atlas is a house becoming six homes.

What you are looking at

thisblock reads public City of Toronto files and draws them around one address. Use the crosshair to start from the street address nearest your phone, or type one. Each card carries the limit of what that record means. Distance is measured from the address point the city keeps for that street number.

The circle defaults to one kilometre. Downtown will be crowded. A house street in Scarborough may only show a few new licences and one build. If two streets share the same number and name, the page asks which ward you mean before it draws anything. That is why 147 Euclid Avenue appears twice: one is in the west end, and one is in Scarborough.

After a search, the count buttons filter the list. The nearest ten are shown first. The map draws every record in the circle. The red sticker on a card is its category. Press one to keep only that category. Open a proposal to see how to answer that file, and the room and street when it can be spoken to. Businesses looks up a shop, a chain, or a restaurant across the whole city, which is how you find every licensed address when you know the name and not the corner. The open data does not include a rendering, so a card has a picture only when a real image URL is in the file. The last address you search stays in this browser, so the next visit opens on the same block.

The records come from the City of Toronto Open Data portal: business licences, active building permits, noise exemption permits, festivals and events, development applications, the council meeting schedule, and the municipal address repository. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. The city does not operate this site and does not endorse it.