Cultivating creative public spaces

The City of Kingston challenges students to think outside the box and develop dynamic public spaces in under-utilized venues. Equipped with information and creativity, inspired students should submit a proposal to re-imagine one of the Kingston locations listed below and make it home to an exciting, engaging and people-friendly experience.

Choose one of the following locations to re-imagine:

Amphitheatre in Springer Market Square
Ontario Street – closed from Brock to Clarence.
Portsmouth Olympic Harbour

Resources

Explore Kingston with our interactive mapping system, KMaps
Overview of locations to be re-imagined and potential ideas (link)

Datasets

Kingston Open Data Catalogue

Civic addresses - CSV
Buildings - CSV
Council contact list - CSV
Cycling facilities - CSV
Driveways - CSV
Electoral districs - CSV
Municipal boundaries - CSV
Neighbourhoods - CSV
Parking areas - CSV
Parks - CSV

Paths - CSV
Points of interest - CSV
River_Segment - CSV
Roads (centreline) - CSV
Roads (surface) - CSV
Sidewalks - CSV
Trails - CSV
Transit details (static) - ZIP
Water bodies - CSV
Zoning - CSV

Real-time transit data can be found at the links below:

Vehicle positions - http://kingston.metrolinx.tmix.se/gtfs-realtime/vehicleupdates.pb
Trip updates - http://kingston.metrolinx.tmix.se/gtfs-realtime/tripupdates.pb
Service alerts - http://kingston.metrolinx.tmix.se/gtfs-realtime/alerts.pb

Curious how to get started with some of this data? Check out our software page for how-tos and guides.