City of Vancouver Open Data Portal

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This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed below and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.

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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.

Live 📅 since 2009
Scale🏙️ City-wide

Sources

↗ City of Vancouver Open Data PortalOperator, current live portal
↗ Open Government Licence – VancouverLicense terms, confirms city (not regional) governance
↗ Georgia Straight — City of Vancouver launches open data catalogue2009 launch date, dataset count, notes Nanaimo preceded Vancouver
↗ The Tyee — Vancouver City Hall's Open Data ExperimentIndependent 2010 assessment of early portal, licensing critique
↗ re3data.org repository recordIndependent registry, current dataset count and platform
📎 Cite this project

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.

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