May 2, 2013 – Added 3-1-1 case volume data. Interaction volume data is now extracted electronically and is refreshed monthly. Available in CSV and XLS formats.
April 18, 2013 – Added orthophotos for 2011, available in ECW and MrSID formats. 2006, 2008, and 2009 orthophotos are also available. All photos are in high-quality 10cm pixel resolution.
April 16, 2013 – Released data about contracts that have been posted publicly and awarded in 2012 to the supplier community to purchase goods and/or services for the Vancouver Group (City of Vancouver, Vancouver Park Board, Vancouver Police Board, and Vancouver Library). Available in CSV and XLS formats.
March 26, 2013 – Data provided by Statistics Canada from the 2001, 2006 and 2011 Census as custom profile data orders using the City’s 22 local planning areas. Available in CSV and XLS formats.
March 12, 2013 – Individual Council members expenses and annual travel and training expenses released for 2012 Quarter 4. Available in CSV, XLS, and XML formats.
February 21, 2013 – Sixteen spatial datasets have just been added to Open Data. They are available in DWG, KML, and SHP formats.
February 7, 2013 – Released data about licenced rental properties that have current (unresolved) bylaw issues. Available in CSV, XLS, XML, and JSON formats. The data is updated daily.
January 28, 2013 – Released location data of bike racks that are installed on City property. Available in CSV and XLS formats.
January 16, 2013 – Playfield status for weekend play has just been added to Open Data. Available in CSV, XLS, XML and JSON formats.
December 11, 2012 – Individual Council members expenses and annual travel and training expenses released for 2012 Quarter 3. Available in CSV, XLS, and XML formats.
November 15, 2012 – Individual Council members expenses and annual travel and training expenses released for 2012 Quarter 2. Available in CSV, XLS, and XML formats.
November 6, 2012 – Crime data on a year-by-year basis beginning in 2003. Available in CSV and XLS formats.
July 3, 2012 – Individual Council members expenses and annual travel and training expenses released for 2011 Quarter 4. Available in CSV, XLS, and XML formats.
March 22, 2012 – Individual Council members expenses and annual travel and training expenses released for 2011 Quarter 4. Available in CSV, XLS, and XML formats.
January 24, 2012 – Vancouver has so many public trees on boulevards in the city that the dataset is separated into files grouped by neighbourhood. Find data on tree location, species, and other characteristics.
January 17, 2012 – Individual Council members expenses and annual travel and training expenses released for 2011 Quarter 3. Available in CSV, XLS, and XML formats.
January 4, 2012 – We have just added three new datasets from our animal control inventory system which provides a record of animals that have come into the custody of the Vancouver Animal Control Office. We have details on domestic deceased pets that have been picked up by City staff, information on animals that have been reported lost, and data about each animal that has come in the custody of Animal Control.
November 21, 2011 – Election 2011 municipal election results have just been added to Open Data. Find official results from Vancouver's municipal elections since 1996, including the Olympic vote and the At-Large or Wards vote.
August 29, 2011 – Voting Division boundaries and each division's voting location for the 2011 municipal election have just been added to Open Data.
July 12, 2011 – We have just added 3-1-1 Contact Centre statistical data. Find out what your fellow citizens ask the City about. This data includes contact centre metrics showing the number of calls, response times, service levels, and more.
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Open and accessible data
In May of 2009, Vancouver City Council passed a motion referred to as Open3 declaring that the City of Vancouver will endorse the principles of open and accessible data and will freely share with citizens, business, and other jurisdictions the greatest amount of data possible while respecting privacy and security concerns.
The data that people want
The City’s response to this motion involved an initial assessment of what data could and should be made available in the short-term. We identified data that was of most interest to the community and that had already been vetted through many of the legal, business, and technical processes required to make information publicly available. This turned out to be much of the spatial data that we currently publish through VanMap, which is our public mapping portal.
Publishing data
We then launched the Open Data website in September 2009 and have been adding new data to it since then.
In May of 2010, we developed a longer term plan for open data. The plan outlined short and long terms goals, including the publication of certain datasets, engagement with users of open data, and moving open data from project phase to an operational program.
2011 Most Innovative Organization in BC Award: City of Vancouver
BC Business recognized the City of Vancouver as the Most Innovative Organization in BC in 2011 for its open data initiative.
Note: DWG, SHP, TIF, Mr. SID and ECW formats are projected in UTM zone10, NAD83 (CSRS). KML and CSV/XLS formats are projected in latitude, longitude (WGS84); this is relevant for CSV/XLS files only if they contain latitude and longitude. 
