Traffic Cameras

The Traffic Camera dataset contains the location and number for every Traffic camera in the City of Toronto. These datasets will be updated within 2 minutes when cameras are added, changed, or removed.

The camera list files can be found at: https://opendata.toronto.ca/transportation/tmc/rescucameraimages/Data/

tmcearthcameras.csv - CSV, camera list in CSV
tmcearthcameras.json - json formatted list.
tmcearthcamerassn.json - json formatted file containing the timestamp of the list files.
tmcearthcameras.xml - xml formatted list.
TMCEarthCameras.xsd - xml schema document.

The dataset includes the number, name, WGS84 information (latitude, longitude), comparison directions (1- Looking North, 2-Looking East, 3-Looking South and 4-Looking West), and camera group.

The camera images associated with the dataset can be found at: https://opendata.toronto.ca/transportation/tmc/rescucameraimages/CameraImages.

And the comparison images can be found at: https://opendata.toronto.ca/transportation/tmc/rescucameraimages/ComparisonImages.

The camera image file name is created as follows:
loc####.jpg - where #### is the camera number. (i.e. loc1234.jpg)

The camera comparison image file names are created as follows:
loc####D.jpg - where #### is the camera number and D is the direction. (i.e. loc1234e.jpg and loc1234w.jpg)

The camera images are displayed on the City's website at http://www.toronto.ca/rescu/index.htmor http://www.toronto.ca/rescu/list.htm

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Last Updated	December 17, 2025, 18:39 (UTC)
Created	December 17, 2025, 18:39 (UTC)
Domain / Topic Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.	Transportation
Title Title for the Dataset.	Traffic Cameras
Description A description of the dataset.	The Traffic Camera dataset contains the location and number for every Traffic camera in the City of Toronto. These datasets will be updated within 2 minutes when cameras are added, changed, or removed. The camera list files can be found at: https://opendata.toronto.ca/transportation/tmc/rescucameraimages/Data/ tmcearthcameras.csv - CSV, camera list in CSV tmcearthcameras.json - json formatted list. tmcearthcamerassn.json - json formatted file containing the timestamp of the list files. tmcearthcameras.xml - xml formatted list. TMCEarthCameras.xsd - xml schema document. The dataset includes the number, name, WGS84 information (latitude, longitude), comparison directions (1- Looking North, 2-Looking East, 3-Looking South and 4-Looking West), and camera group. The camera images associated with the dataset can be found at: https://opendata.toronto.ca/transportation/tmc/rescucameraimages/CameraImages. And the comparison images can be found at: https://opendata.toronto.ca/transportation/tmc/rescucameraimages/ComparisonImages. The camera image file name is created as follows: loc####.jpg - where #### is the camera number. (i.e. loc1234.jpg) The camera comparison image file names are created as follows: loc####D.jpg - where #### is the camera number and D is the direction. (i.e. loc1234e.jpg and loc1234w.jpg) The camera images are displayed on the City's website at http://www.toronto.ca/rescu/index.htmor http://www.toronto.ca/rescu/list.htm
Tags / Keywords Keywords/tags categorizing the dataset.	traffic camera
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc) File format of the dataset.
Dataset Size Dataset size in megabytes.
Metadata Identifier Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
Published Date Published date of the dataset.	2013-10-08
Time Period Data Span (start date) Start date of the data in the dataset.
Time Period Data Span (end date) End date of time data in the dataset.
GeoSpatial Area Data Span A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.

Field	Value
Access category Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).
License License used to access the dataset.	License not specified
Limits on use Limits on use of data.
Location Location of the dataset.	https://open.toronto.ca/dataset/traffic-cameras
Data Service Data service for accessing a dataset.
Owner Owner of the dataset.	Transportation Services, [email protected]
Contact Point Who to contact regarding access?
Contact Point Email The email to contact regarding access?
Publisher Publisher of the dataset.
Publisher Email Email of the publisher.	[email protected]
Author Author of the dataset.	[email protected]
Author Email Email of the author.	[email protected]
Accessed At Date the data and metadata was accessed.

Field	Value
Identifier Unique identifier for the dataset.
Language Language(s) of the dataset
Link to dataset description A URL to an external document describing the dataset.
Persistent Identifier Data is identified by a persistent identifier.
Globally Unique Identifier Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.
Contains data about individuals Does the data hold data about individuals?
Contains data about identifiable individuals Does the data hold identifiable data about individual?
Contains Indigenous Data Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
Portal Type Platform type of the source portal.

Field	Value
Version Version of the datatset	None
Source Source of the dataset.	https://www.toronto.ca/services-payments/streets-parking-transportation/road-restrictions-closures/restrictions-map/?camera=true#location=&lat=43.720497&lng=-79.536896&zoom=10
Version notes Version notes about the dataset.
Is version of another dataset Link to dataset that it is a version of.
Other versions Link to datasets that are versions of it.
Provenance Text Provenance Text of the data.
Provenance URL Provenance URL of the data.
Temporal resolution Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
GeoSpatial resolution in meters Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
GeoSpatial resolution (in regions) Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.

Field	Value
Indigenous Community Permission Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
Community Permission Community permission (who gave permission).
The Indigenous communities the dataset is about Indigenous communities from which data is derived.

Field	Value
Number of data rows If tabular dataset, total number of rows.
Number of data columns If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
Number of data cells If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
Number of data relations If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
Number of entities If RDF dataset, total number of entities.
Number of data properties If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
Data quality Describes the quality of the data in the dataset.
Metric for data quality A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.

Traffic Cameras

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