What are verified examples of companies or products built on normalized municipal open data in Canada or the United States — building permits, property or parcel data, or government procurement data — and which specific datasets did they have to normalize or clean?
The research verified 14 documented commercial examples — 7 building-permit products, 5 procurement/spending products, 1 parcel/property product, and 1 mixed-municipal-record product — drawn from 14 independent source hosts, one example and one distinct URL per host. “Verified” means the source explicitly identifies a real product, identifiable government inputs, and actual transformation work; most evidence is first-party methodology or product documentation, supplemented by an official SmartProcure patent and a publisher account for Publicus.
| Product | Named datasets / sources | Normalization and cleaning | Commercial output | Source |
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Method: 14 verified commercial examples of products built on municipal or government data in Canada and the U.S., one row per product, compiled from 14 independent source hosts (one URL each), mostly first-party methodology pages, plus one patent and one publisher account; collected for this report. The matrix marks a transformation layer when the source text describes it explicitly; absence means not described, not necessarily not done. Long source and cleaning descriptions are truncated in the table — hover the matrix for the full cleaning text. Several inputs come via public-records requests or administrative records rather than open-data licences. No coordinates were collected, so no map is drawn.