Open databases are the core component of the Linkable Open Data Environment (LODE). You can contribute to their development by reporting new publicly available datasets released by municipalities, provinces or other organizations.
Open databases released
The Open Database of Businesses
The Open Database of Businesses contains a variety of business information, including names, addresses, locations, industry classification, and other characteristics when supplied by the data providers.
Release date:
- November 28, 2023 — Version 1.0
The Open Database of Infrastructure
The Open Database of Infrastructure contains data across 11 infrastructure types: electric grid, oil and gas, low carbon, bridges and tunnels, airports, ports and marinas, railways, potable water, solid waste, wastewater and stormwater, and telecommunications.
Release dates:
- November 13, 2024 — Version 2.0
- May 8, 2023 — Version 1.0
The Open Database of Greenhouses
The Open Database of Greenhouses (ODG) version 1.0 contains approximately 2,400 greenhouse footprints digitized from various earth observation sources.
The database is in GIS (Geographic Information System) format.
Release dates:
- February 2, 2023 — Version 1.0
The Open Database of Buildings
The Open Database of Buildings (ODB) version 2.0 contains approximately 4.4 million building footprints compiled from 65 sources.
The database is in GIS (Geographic Information System) format.
Release dates:
- March 1, 2019 — Version 2.0
- November 1, 2018 — Version 1.0
The Open Database of Educational Facilities
The Open Database of Educational Facilities (ODEF) contains addresses of educational facilities across Canada. In its current version it contains approximately 19,000 records compiled from both open sources and from publicly available data (with permission from the data owners).
The database is in CSV (comma-separated values) format.
Release date:
- November 28, 2022 — Version 2.1
- April 9, 2021 — Version 2.0
- August 19, 2019 — Version 1.0
The Open Database of Healthcare Facilities
The Open Database of Healthcare Facilities (ODHF) contains the names, addresses and geo-coordinates of healthcare facilities across Canada. Facilities are classified by type. The current version (version 1.1) contains approximately 7,000 records compiled from open data sources, publicly available data, and data directly provided by sources for inclusion as open data.
The database is in CSV (comma-separated values) format.
Release dates:
- August 7, 2020 — Version 1.1
- April 17, 2020 — Version 1.0
The Open Database of Cultural and Art Facilities
The Open Database of Cultural and Art Facilities (ODCAF) contains the names, addresses, and geo-coordinates of a variety of cultural and art facilities across Canada, including museums, galleries, libraries and art centres. This database contains approximately 8,000 records compiled from both open and publicly available data sources.
The database is in CSV (comma-separated values) format.
Release date:
- October 2, 2020 — Version 1.0
The Open Database of Addresses
The Open Database of Addresses (ODA) is a database of civic addresses and their geo-locations, and contains over 10 million addresses across Canada. The development of the ODA has greatly benefited from a collaboration with OpenAddresses.
These addresses will also be integrated into a new National Address Register (NAR) of residential and non-residential addresses, to be made available later this year by Statistics Canada.
Release date:
- April 29, 2021 — Version 1.0
The Open Database of Recreational and Sport Facilities
The Open Database of Recreational and Sport Facilities (ODRSF) contains the name and location of major recreational spaces and amenities across Canada (such as arenas, public pools, ski resorts, etc.). This database contains approximately 182,000 records compiled from both open and publicly available data sources.
The database is in CSV (comma-separated values) format.
Release date:
- September 28, 2021 — Version 1.0