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Open data. Building registrations, evaluations, permits, bylaw and public health cases, neighbourhood boundaries and nearby amenities come from the City of Toronto’s open data portal. They contain information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Average rents come from the CMHC Rental Market Survey, under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Neighbourhood crime figures come from Toronto Police Service open data. Maps use OpenStreetMap data, © OpenStreetMap contributors.

British Columbia buildings are built from open data published by each city, and by the Province and Metro Vancouver where a city publishes none, under these licences: Open Government Licence – Vancouver, Open Government License – City of Surrey, Open Government Licence – Burnaby, Open Government Licence – British Columbia, Open Government Licence – Coquitlam, Open Government Licence – City of New Westminster, Open Government Licence – North Vancouver, Open Government Licence – Port Moody, Open Government Licence – Port Coquitlam, Open Government Licence – Delta, Open Government License – City of White Rock, Open Government Licence – Maple Ridge, Open Government Licence – Metro Vancouver, Open Government License – City of Langley and Open Government License – Township of Langley.

Calgary. Calgary buildings are built from the City of Calgary’s property assessment roll, and permits and builders from its building permit records, both from the City’s open data portal. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary. The licence is the Open Government Licence – City of Calgary. It does not make the City responsible for what we show or suggest that the City endorses this site. Calgary neighbourhood information. Parks, pathways and bikeways, schools, libraries, recreation centres, street trees, land use districts, the major road network and development applications from the City of Calgary’s open data (Open Government Licence – City of Calgary); transit from Calgary Transit’s published schedules; industrial air releases from the National Pollutant Release Inventory (Environment and Climate Change Canada, Open Government Licence – Canada); rents from the CMHC Rental Market Survey (Open Government Licence – Canada). Crime: Source: Statistics Canada, Incident-based crime statistics, by detailed violations, police services in Alberta (table 35-10-0183-01), 2023 to 2025. Reproduced and distributed on an “as is” basis with the permission of Statistics Canada. Map tiles are © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Montreal. Montreal buildings are built from the City of Montréal’s open data: the property evaluation units (“Unités d’évaluation foncière”) and the building permits (“Permis de construction, transformation et démolition”). Contains data from the City of Montréal’s open data portal, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, grouped and summarised by Building Review. The City of Montréal does not endorse this site. The licence is Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. We grouped the City’s evaluation units into buildings and left out work inside individual units. Street names, boroughs and permit text are shown in French, as the City publishes them. We do not use the data to identify any person, business or organisation. Montreal neighbourhood information. Parks, cycling routes, libraries, community centres, street trees, expressways, land-use designations and BIXI stations from the City of Montréal’s open data, and transit from the STM’s published schedules, also on the City’s portal (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; names and labels are shown as the City publishes them, in French); fatal and serious collisions from the collision reports of the SPVM, structured by the SAAQ and published by the City, for 2017 to 2021, the latest years available; supervised consumption sites from Health Canada, placed with the City’s address points; industrial air releases from the National Pollutant Release Inventory (Environment and Climate Change Canada, Open Government Licence – Canada); rents from the CMHC Rental Market Survey (Open Government Licence – Canada). Crime: Source: Statistics Canada, Incident-based crime statistics, by detailed violations, police services in Quebec (table 35-10-0179-01), 2023 to 2025. Reproduced and distributed on an “as is” basis with the permission of Statistics Canada. Map tiles are © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Metro Vancouver neighbourhood information. Parks, cycling routes, libraries, community centres and street trees from each city’s open data; schools and licensed child care from the Province of British Columbia (Open Government Licence – British Columbia); transit from TransLink’s published schedules; expressways, bike share stations and some cycling routes and parks from OpenStreetMap contributors (Open Database Licence); industrial air releases from the National Pollutant Release Inventory (Environment and Climate Change Canada, Open Government Licence – Canada); injury crashes from ICBC’s reported crashes (ICBC Open Data Licence); supervised consumption sites from Health Canada; rents from the CMHC Rental Market Survey (Open Government Licence – Canada). Crime: Source: Statistics Canada, Incident-based crime statistics, by detailed violations, police services in British Columbia (table 35-10-0184-01), 2023 to 2025. Reproduced and distributed on an “as is” basis with the permission of Statistics Canada. Route and arrival data used in this product or service is provided by permission of TransLink. TransLink assumes no responsibility for the accuracy or currency of the Data used in this product or service. Crashes reported to ICBC in which someone was injured or killed, from 2021 to 2025. ICBC records no separate fatal or serious level. Each crash is placed at an intersection, or midway between two for a mid-block crash, so counts near highway interchanges are dominated by highway traffic. Contains information licensed under ICBC’s Open Data Licence. All analysis, inferences, opinions, and conclusions drawn in this page are those of the authors, and do not reflect the opinions, position or policies of ICBC. OpenStreetMap data is © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence; the parts of our neighbourhood data derived from it (expressways, bike share stations, some cycling routes and parks) are shared under the same licence.

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