City of Vancouver Open Data Portal
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Vancouver opened a public data catalogue in September 2009 — three months after Nanaimo, which got there first in Canada.
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The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 10 more in Vancouver · 📊 Open data guide · 📡 Data & IoT projects
In May 2009 Vancouver council passed a sweeping open-data motion, and the city launched a public catalogue that September — one of Canada's earliest, though Nanaimo's launched three months earlier. Later rebuilt on the Opendatasoft platform, the portal now publishes city datasets — permits, business licences, election results — under the Open Government Licence – Vancouver.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “City of Vancouver Open Data Portal” — Vancouver, Canada. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/vancouver-open-data/ (last verified 2026-08-06). Data: CC BY 4.0.
The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.