Built on Toronto open data

What's happening on your street this week?

Road work, building permits, and construction notices within 500 metres of your front door, pulled live from the City of Toronto's open data. No rumor, no guessing.

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How it works

Three steps, about ten seconds

The city already publishes this information. We just connect it to your address.

1

Enter your address

We locate it on the map and draw a 500-metre circle around your home, about a five-minute walk.

2

We query live city feeds

The road-restrictions feed and the active building-permits dataset are searched for anything touching your circle, right now.

3

Get your briefing

Each item shows what it is, when it runs, how far away it is, and a link to the source record.

What we track

Two live feeds, zero guesswork

Every number below is read from the city's open data portal when this page loads.

2,459

Road restrictions

Closures, lane reductions, and construction zones with real coordinates, filtered to 500 metres around your address.

202,779

Active building permits

Authorized construction across the city, matched to your street by name. The feed carries no coordinates, so we say so.

Planning notices

Development applications and committee-of-adjustment notices are next. The city publishes them as documents, so each one needs address extraction before it can join the map.

Staying fresh

Fresh data is the whole product

A street briefing is only useful if it reflects this week, not last year. Here is exactly how each feed stays current.

  • Road restrictions are re-fetched from the city every 6 hours; the feed itself updates continuously.
  • Building permits are re-queried hourly from the CKAN datastore; the city refreshes the dataset daily.
  • Every result carries its source and date, so you can verify anything we show you.
  • When a feed fails, we tell you which one instead of silently showing a partial picture.

The freshness contract

If the city's data is stale, your briefing says so. We would rather show you an honest “feed unavailable” note than a confident-looking answer built on old data.

Geocoding by OpenStreetMap Nominatim. City data via Toronto Open Data.

Know before the jackhammers do

Enter your address above and leave your email. When new road work or permits appear near your home, you hear about it first.

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FAQ

Questions, answered plainly

Real. Every result comes from the City of Toronto's open data portal: the live road-restrictions feed for closures and construction, and the active building-permits dataset. Each item links to its source dataset so you can verify it.