Municipal, provincial, and federal agencies deal with fragmented geographic data every day — different boundary definitions, inconsistent address formats, no single source of truth for neighbourhood-level context. Neighbourly provides a clean, authoritative, Canadian-hosted API that can serve as a shared location layer across programs, portals, and internal systems.
Geographic data fragmentation is one of the most persistent operational challenges in the public sector. A planning department works with one boundary dataset. A service delivery program uses another. A community health initiative references a third. None of them agree on neighbourhood names. None of them share an address identifier. And every inter-departmental data sharing initiative runs into the same reconciliation problem.
Neighbourly is designed to function as a shared location infrastructure layer — a single, consistent API that resolves any Canadian civic address to authoritative boundary identifiers, neighbourhood context, and demographic data, regardless of which system or program is querying it. One source of truth for address, geography, and place — queryable by any system that can make an HTTP request.
The platform is Canadian-hosted, uses Statistics Canada and municipal open data sources, and returns data in standard GeoJSON and JSON formats with no proprietary lock-in. It's designed to be the location layer that works across procurement boundaries and departmental silos.
Tell us about your department's data challenges and the programs you're trying to connect. We'll show you how Neighbourly fits into the public sector stack.
Common questions about this data and how to use it.
As a shared location layer for planning, service delivery, community reporting, and infrastructure analysis.
Yes — Canadian data and Canadian hosting, suitable for public-sector data-residency requirements.
Through an API, so it can plug into existing GIS, reporting, and portal systems.
Yes. The boundary and neighbourhood layers suit resident portals and public dashboards.
We support pilots and can provide documentation for procurement review. Contact us to start.