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toronto.ca/open

   2 November 2009, early morning

This is pretty neat: the city of Toronto is releasing a bunch of the data and information they collect online, via the portal toronto.ca/open. There is a companion site, dataTO.org They look to be following the lead of the US government, who recently created DATA.gov not too long ago. This stuff is all generated using tax payer money, so I think it makes sense that the data be available to the public. You can grab the entire TTC schedule as a series of text files now. There is a real time XML feed of events and festivals taking place in the city. This address validator web service looks like it could be used to do a lot of interesting things. I’ll be curious to see what sorts of things people start creating with the data released so far, and what other datasets the city plans to release. There isn’t much online right now, but it seems like a good start.

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Comments

  1. Hmm, your TTC link is busted.

    by Dave on November 2 2009, 8:14 pm   #

  2. Strange. They had posted it earlier today, and I guess took it down recently. Not so open.

    by ramanan on November 2 2009, 9:32 pm   #

  3. Since you can ask them about stuff on Twitter, i’m going to give them a thumbs up again.

    by ramanan on November 3 2009, 9:15 am   #

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