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Data sources

The figures on this site are made from data published by the organizations below. This page gathers the credit each licence asks for, by provider.

Credits by provider

Each statement is given in the exact wording its licence asks for.

City of Vancouver

Data used
Open data from the City’s Open Data Portal and VanMap: business licences and the storefront survey, building permits, property assessments and parcels, zoning and city plan maps, streets, parking, road works, sidewalks, bikeways and traffic counts, 3-1-1 service requests, public facilities such as parks, libraries, community centres, schools, cultural spaces and heritage sites, and business improvement area boundaries
Licence
Open Government Licence – Vancouver
Attribution

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Vancouver.

Province of British Columbia (BC Data Catalogue, DataBC)

Data used
Data from the BC Data Catalogue: liquor-licensed establishments (Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch), school enrolment, post-secondary institution locations and headcounts, tourism indicators, hotel room revenue and consumer prices (BC Stats), the Major Projects Inventory, and the BC Address Geocoder (DataBC), which turns addresses into locations
Licence
Open Government Licence – British Columbia
Attribution

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia.

Statistics Canada

Data used
2021 Census of Population profiles and dissemination area boundaries, and median wages from the Labour Force Survey (as republished by BC Stats)
Licence
Statistics Canada Open Licence
Attribution

Adapted from Statistics Canada, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population, 2021. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

Adapted from Statistics Canada, Boundary Files (dissemination areas), 2021 Census, 2021. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

Adapted from Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey, 2025. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.

Data used
Bus stop and SkyTrain station ridership from the Transit Service Performance Review (TSPR)
Licence
Open Government Licence – TransLink
Attribution

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – TransLink.

Destination BC

Data used
The HelloBC activities and attractions listing
Licence
Open Government License – Destination BC
Attribution

Contains information licensed under the Open Government License – Destination BC.

Overture Maps Foundation and its upstream sources

Data used
Places (businesses and points of interest)
Licence
CDLA Permissive 2.0, Apache 2.0, CC0 1.0 (Overture attribution guide)
Attribution

Places data: Overture Maps Foundation (overturemaps.org).

Data from Meta, Microsoft, PinMeTo, DAC and RenderSEO: CDLA Permissive 2.0.

Data from AllThePlaces: CC0 1.0.

Data from Foursquare: Apache 2.0. Copyright 2024 Foursquare Labs, Inc. All rights reserved. Foursquare data was transformed to the Overture schema. NOTICE

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)

Data used
Financial Performance Data: average finances of small businesses by industry
Licence
Open Government Licence – Canada
Attribution

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.

Please note

  • Crediting these organizations does not mean that any of them endorses WhereWise or this site. We use their names only to credit them, and we do not use their logos or official marks.
  • We gather and adapt these data to make the figures on this site. Any errors in the results are ours, not the providers’.
  • Anyone can download the original data from each provider. The licence links above give each provider’s terms.
  • If a source or credit is missing or wrong, please tell us at here@wherewise.ca.