Where the data comes from

Page last updated 15 November 2026

Always check the posted sign before you park.

What the map answers

For each side of the streets the map draws in Toronto, it takes your arrival time and date and how long you'll stay, and tells you one of these:

• you may park, and until when;
• you may only stop, to load or to pick up and drop off;
• you may not stop at all;
• the data can't settle it, so check the sign.

It answers for an ordinary driver, and separately for a driver with an Accessible Parking Permit. Each answer names the rule behind it.

Sources

• City of Toronto: its parking by-laws (Municipal Code Chapters 903, 910 and 950), and from its open data, the street network, traffic signals and crossovers, permit parking areas, parking tickets from 2024 and 2025, and road restrictions for construction.
• TTC: stop locations, from its open data.
• Toronto Parking Authority: its Green P car parks, with their spaces, how full they get each quarter, and their accessible stalls, from the City's open data. It has no current rates or hours, so the map shows none.
• OpenStreetMap: the base map, and some Green P car park outlines and entrances.
• Posted signs: a few signs on the street that the City's data misses.
• Esri World Imagery: the satellite view.

The map is rebuilt from these sources as they're updated, and its About panel gives the date of the current build. Construction closures are refreshed twice a day.

What the map can't know

• Temporary signs, film shoots, snow declarations, special events and newly posted signs.
• Fire hydrants, driveways and other places where the general rules forbid parking without a sign.
• Some posted signs that aren't in the City's data at all.

Some answers rest on approximate data, so their stretch of curb or their hours can be off. Where the data can't settle a curb, the answer reads "check the sign".

Where no rule is listed, the map usually gives Toronto's default of 3 hours, which a sign the data lacks may override. Where signs are often missing from the data, such as downtown, main roads and new streets, a curb with no listed rule reads "check the sign" instead.

The map doesn't draw private and federal roads (such as campus, hospital and mall roads), laneways, expressways and ramps, or some stretches of winding streets.

Answers are spot-checked and corrected when they're found wrong. Even so, any answer can be wrong, so read the sign.

Credits

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto.

Map © OpenStreetMap contributors, drawn with Protomaps and MapLibre. Green P car park outlines and entrances include OpenStreetMap data, © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database Licence (see the terms). Place search by Photon. Satellite view: Esri World Imagery, powered by Esri (Source: Esri, Vantor, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community).