How to Use City of Toronto Map Data

As it turns out, the City of Toronto maintains a lot of open map data (”geospatial data”, in the…

Quotes from Onboarding

During our 4-week onboarding, dozens of veterans in the civic tech space generously offered their time and expertise to help us hit the ground running. Here’s some of their most quotable quotes. Enjoy!

On agile methodologies:

Whiteboards: The Essential Engineering Tool

Here we’ve taken a first stab at mapping out the ways that collision and traffic…

User Interviews Action Shot!

User interviews action shot! Here we’re interviewing Kasra, a Project Lead in Data Collection at…

Hello from Toronto!

Introducing…the Toronto Squad! Toronto has committed to Vision Zero, a global initiative to reduce traffic-related deaths…

Visual Thinking: Not Just for Designers

Visual thinking isn’t just for designers.

It’s All People, All The Way Down

Team developer Evan meets Rick, his friendly neighbourhood crossing guard.

Agile and the Growth Mindset

We wanted to write up a quick piece about our expectations heading into today’s Project Kickoff meeting, but…

Don’t Fear the Big Red X

Good products require good user testing. Good user testing means running experiments designed to test good…