Open Data Waterloo
The City of Waterloo wants to hear your ideas on Open Data.
31 results found
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Official Plan Land Use Designations
Official Plan Land Use Mapping
http://www.waterloo.ca/en/contentresources/resources/government/OP_schedules.pdf
26 votes -
parcel (property boundaries)
Request that property boundaries be release (w/o ARN or PIN) so the public can identify their property and see what features overlap their property. It would allow the public to easily access this information with higher costs. I.e. if I want to draw a site plan of my porch extension, property boundary would be helpful to denote the setbacks.
21 votes -
By-laws applicable to your address.
Going to build a fence or planing renovations, I could easiky pull up the bylaws or request they get emailed to me.
It would make it very convenient.16 votes -
14 votes
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Create a trail network for navigation
Currently, trail segments are disjointed. Clean up and merge trail segment end node data to enable the creation of trail navigation apps.
12 votes -
Drinking water locations (fountains/places to fill bottle)
This would be very helpful fro someone who was doing long physical activities to know (eg running/biking) and would also be helpful for visitors to the city.
This dataset should include location, type of water dispenser and the hours and months of operation (if applicable)
12 votes -
winter maintenance for bike lanes
information on trails and bike lanes for winter use
11 votes -
Public transit
Would like to have bus stops, and future locations of rapid transit, as well as via rail etc all geocoded.
9 votes -
Public Restroom Location and Hours
Locations and hours/months of operation for public restrooms
8 votes -
8 votes
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Police Reports
Can't find a downloadable source for all incident reports in the region - would be useful to understand how our Force functions.
7 votes -
Startup Data
It would be interesting to have startup activity and funding that happens in Waterloo, given the global attention it's getting from the startup community.
6 votes -
Speed Limits
The Roads data set in the Data Catalogue should include speed limits. That sort of information is very important in planning the layout of bike lanes, side walks, and other types of infrastructure, and should be accessible to those involved in data analysis.
6 votes -
parking
Locations and prices of street parking, as well as public green P parking lots.
5 votes -
food retail
all types of food stores to assess food accessibility in Waterloo
5 votes -
Budget
Facilitate citizen engagement in the budget process by presenting past, current, and proposed budget and actuals data in a consumable format.
4 votes -
4 votes
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Bike Repair Station
Bike repair or Fixit station locations throughout Waterloo for cyclists to know where free bike pumps are located
3 votes -
3 votes
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Municipal elections financial disclosures
Presently, financial disclosure statements filed by municipal elections candidates are only supplied as scanned images. Supplying this information in an open data format would help to ensure that it is accessible and transparent to the entire community.
3 votes
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