City Launches New Open Data Portal to Residents

The City of Thunder Bay is pleased to further its commitment to Open Government, which promotes transparency, access and collaboration, by launching a new open data portal to residents.

“Open data is a great tool for innovation and development,” said Jack Avella, Manager Corporate Information Technology. “We are excited to launch this portal to the public and invite them to take advantage of the opportunities it presents. We have identified over 50 datasets that may be of interest and the site is poised to grow into the future.”

The portal uses an easy to navigate platform to make eligible municipal data, which has been collected by the City of Thunder Bay for use in its operations, freely available to the public. All data has been reviewed, identified for portal use, and contains no identifying personal information. The data can be searched or browsed by category and downloaded, to be freely used without copyright or patent restrictions.

The portal contains data, documents, applications and interactive maps which can be used by citizens in a variety of ways, from research to the eventual development of new services or software applications. The available data includes Thunder Bay street networks, real time transit feeds, financial statements, City recreational facilities, and much more. The City also invites requests for additional datasets to be considered future portal enhancements.

The Thunder Bay open data portal is a component of the City’s 2019 - 2022 Corporate Strategic Plan which identified the need to develop an open data platform to make it easier for interested users to engage with City data and create opportunities for engagement.

Residents are invited to explore the portal at www.thunderbay.ca/opendata