Traffic Services API (Webcam Images, Traffic Flow)
Provides access to the City of Ottawa traffic related services API. Including traffic cameras and traffic notification relating to special events, construction and unplanned incidents.
For detailed information regarding the Traffic API, see the Interactive Traffic Map website from the Traffic and Parking website.Traffic WebCam API
Provides images for the City of Ottawa’s traffic web cams. These images are available at sixty second intervals and are approximately 30-50KB in size. To access the images users will be required to have an access key. The application form for access keys can be found on this page: http://trafficopendata.ottawa.ca/ts/rsadmin/certificate.jsp
After completing the registration form and receiving a confirmation email with a certificate number you will be able to access the camera images. To access a camera image you can access the URL http://traffic.ottawa.ca/opendata/camera with the following parameters:
- Camera number
- Certificate: The certificate string as supplied in the confirmation email.
- Id: User Id (optional).
Note: City of Ottawa cameras have camera numbers less than 2000, and MTO cameras have camera numbers greater than 2000.
Note: The Id is a string value assigned by your user to each user or instance of your application accessing the images. The Id must be alphanumeric characters [a-z, A-Z, 0-9]. A given user id for a given certificate may only access the cameras at intervals of at least 60 seconds.
e.g. To access City Camera 16 (Bank and Hunt Club) -- http://traffic.ottawa.ca/opendata/camera?c=16&certificate=CERT123&id=2
e.g. To access MTO Camera 2002 (St Laurent) -- http://traffic.ottawa.ca/opendata/camera?c=2002&certificate=CERT123&id=1
The images
Getting Camera Numbers
To obtain a list of camera numbers you can access a JSON list of the available cameras: http://traffic.ottawa.ca/map/camera_list
More information about the format of the list can be found in the following document: http://traffic.ottawa.ca/map/opendata_info
Accuracy: There are no known errors associated with these images.
Update Frequency: N/A - API delivers most up to date information available.
Contact: Motaz Aladas
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Additional Info
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| Last Updated | March 24, 2026, 20:40 (UTC) |
| Created | March 24, 2026, 20:40 (UTC) |
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Title
Title for the Dataset.
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Traffic Services API (Webcam Images, Traffic Flow) |
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Description
A description of the dataset.
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Provides access to the City of Ottawa traffic related services API. Including traffic cameras and traffic notification relating to special events, construction and unplanned incidents. For detailed information regarding the Traffic API, see the Interactive Traffic Map website from the Traffic and Parking website.Traffic WebCam API Provides images for the City of Ottawa’s traffic web cams. These images are available at sixty second intervals and are approximately 30-50KB in size. To access the images users will be required to have an access key. The application form for access keys can be found on this page: http://trafficopendata.ottawa.ca/ts/rsadmin/certificate.jsp
Note: City of Ottawa cameras have camera numbers less than 2000, and MTO cameras have camera numbers greater than 2000.
e.g. To access City Camera 16 (Bank and Hunt Club) -- http://traffic.ottawa.ca/opendata/camera?c=16&certificate=CERT123&id=2
Getting Camera Numbers
Accuracy: There are no known errors associated with these images.
Update Frequency: N/A - API delivers most up to date information available. |
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Dataset Size
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0.04 |
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Metadata Identifier
Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
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Published Date
Published date of the dataset.
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2019-08-23 |
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Access category
Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).
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public |
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License
License used to access the dataset.
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https://ottawa.ca/en/city-hall/get-know-your-city/open-data#open-data-licence-version-2-0 |
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Limits on use
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Location
Location of the dataset.
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https://od-dev2-ottawa.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/ottawa::traffic-services-api-webcam-images-traffic-flow |
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Data Service
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Owner
Owner of the dataset.
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[email protected] |
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Contact Point
Who to contact regarding access?
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City of Ottawa |
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Contact Point Email
The email to contact regarding access?
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[email protected] |
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Publisher
Publisher of the dataset.
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City of Ottawa |
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Publisher Email
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Author
Author of the dataset.
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[email protected] |
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Author Email
Email of the author.
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Accessed At
Date the data and metadata was accessed.
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2024-07-08 |
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Identifier
Unique identifier for the dataset.
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7567f27085814487ae6df41170ea2ebf |
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Language
Language(s) of the dataset
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English |
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Link to dataset description
A URL to an external document describing the dataset.
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https://od-dev2-ottawa.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/ottawa::traffic-services-api-webcam-images-traffic-flow |
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Persistent Identifier
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Globally Unique Identifier
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Contains data about individuals
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Contains data about identifiable individuals
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Contains Indigenous Data
Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
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Version
Version of the datatset
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Source
Source of the dataset.
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Is version of another dataset
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Provenance Text
Provenance Text of the data.
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City of Ottawa |
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Provenance URL
Provenance URL of the data.
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Temporal resolution
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GeoSpatial resolution in meters
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GeoSpatial resolution (in regions)
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Indigenous Community Permission
Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
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Community Permission
Community permission (who gave permission).
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The Indigenous communities the dataset is about
Indigenous communities from which data is derived.
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Data quality
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Metric for data quality
A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.
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