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Reliable public sources are queried live and cached with their provenance. GVCdtLab's own data lives in the warehouse and is reserved for authorised accounts.
| Source | Mode | Access | Licence | Questions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| World Development Indicators World Bank — 1,400+ development indicators for 217 economies, queried live from the World Bank API v2. |
live | Open | CC BY 4.0 | Macroeconomic atlas Country trajectory & IMF outlook Wealth & health of nations Monetary policy map Resource dependence Dependence on a single port Container traffic & connectivity |
| World Economic Outlook (DataMapper) International Monetary Fund — IMF WEO history and projections (growth, inflation, unemployment, balances). |
live | Open | IMF copyright — free reuse with attribution | Country trajectory & IMF outlook |
| International Trade in Goods by partner (IMTS, formerly DOTS) International Monetary Fund — Exports and imports of goods of each economy with each partner since 1948, from national records, completed with partners' records where needed (SDMX API). |
live | Open | IMF copyright — free reuse with attribution | Who trades with whom |
| FRED Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis — U.S. and international economic time series (exchange rates, commodities, rates, activity). |
live | Open | Public domain unless noted per series | North American markets Metal price cycles |
| Statistics Canada — Web Data Service (via statcanR) Statistics Canada — Any of Statistics Canada's 8,000+ data tables, queried live through the WDS API the way the statcanR package (Warin) does: full tables cached until the next official release, or single series. |
live | Open | Statistics Canada Open Licence | |
| Statistics Canada — 2021 census units and Census Profile Statistics Canada — Boundaries of Québec's dissemination areas, census tracts and municipalities (2021), with population, median household income and unemployment from the Census Profile API; REQ entities are placed in them by postal code. |
warehouse | Open | Open Government Licence – Canada | |
| BIS Data Portal — central bank policy rates Bank for International Settlements — Monthly central bank policy rates for 40+ economies (SDMX API, dataflow WS_CBPOL). |
live | Open | BIS terms — free reuse with attribution | Monetary policy map |
| World Port Index (Pub. 150) U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency — Location, size, depth and facilities of ~3,000 ports worldwide. |
live | Open | Public domain (U.S. Government work) | World port capacity |
| PortWatch — daily port activity and trade estimates International Monetary Fund and University of Oxford — Port calls and import / export volumes (metric tons, by cargo type) estimated daily from AIS vessel positions for about 670 major ports, queried live from the PortWatch ArcGIS service. |
live | Open | IMF copyright — free reuse with attribution (commercial reuse on request) | Busiest ports and port regions Where seaborne trade is growing Import gateways and export platforms What each port specialises in Dependence on a single port World port capacity |
| Producing mines and processing facilities (900A) Natural Resources Canada — Principal producing mines, smelters, refineries and top exploration projects in Canada. |
live | Open | Open Government Licence – Canada | Canada's mining and processing map |
| Natural Earth admin-0 boundaries Natural Earth — Country boundaries (1:110m) used for choropleths. |
live | Open | Public domain | Macroeconomic atlas Who trades with whom Resource dependence Busiest ports and port regions Where seaborne trade is growing Import gateways and export platforms What each port specialises in Dependence on a single port Container traffic & connectivity |
| Registraire des entreprises du Québec (with the Req package) Registraire des entreprises du Québec — Every enterprise registered in Québec — official extract refreshed twice a month — located by establishment through the postal-code coordinates of the Req R package (Warin). Non-commercial use. |
warehouse | Open | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |
| Federal Corporations Corporations Canada (ISED) — Every active federally incorporated corporation (CBCA, not-for-profits, co-ops), updated daily — the firm-level source outside Québec, located by postal code. |
warehouse | Open | Open Government Licence – Canada | |
| GeoNames Canadian postal codes GeoNames — Coordinates of every Canadian postal code, used where the Req lookup has none. |
warehouse | Open | CC BY 4.0 | |
| OpenStreetMap Nominatim OpenStreetMap Foundation — Names the municipality in view (reverse geocoding, cached). |
live | Open | ODbL | |
| ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023 U.S. Census Bureau — Establishments by industry and size class, paid employment and payroll for every ZIP code (latest release, reference year 2023). |
warehouse | Open | Public domain (U.S. Government work) | |
| Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics — Employment, establishments, wages and location quotients by county and industry, latest quarter. |
live | Open | Public domain (U.S. Government work) | |
| Census Geocoder U.S. Census Bureau — Names the county in view. |
live | Open | Public domain (U.S. Government work) | |
| Active Corporations: Beginning 1800 New York Department of State — Every active corporation, LLC and partnership registered with the New York Department of State, updated daily — located by ZIP code. |
warehouse | Open | Open data — New York State terms of use | |
| Input-Output Accounts (summary, before redefinitions) U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis — National Make and Use tables — U.S. inter-industry flows (states have no supply-use tables). |
live | Open | Public domain (U.S. Government work) | |
| GDP by county and industry (CAGDP2) U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis — Gross domestic product by county and industry, current dollars, annual (bulk file, no key needed). |
live | Open | Public domain (U.S. Government work) | |
| Census tracts and workplace jobs (TIGERweb 2020, LODES 8) U.S. Census Bureau — Census tract and county boundaries with 2020 population (TIGERweb) and jobs by workplace and NAICS sector (LEHD LODES workplace area characteristics) for New York and the Great Lakes states. |
warehouse | Open | Public domain (U.S. Government work) | |
| NYSDOT Roadway Data Viewer — AADT New York State Department of Transportation — Annual average daily traffic by road segment (current estimate and last actual count), statewide. |
live | Open | NYSDOT open GIS data | |
| Street Closures due to Construction NYC Department of Transportation — Current street closures for construction in New York City, by block, updated daily. |
live | Open | NYC Open Data terms of use | |
| Census batch geocoder U.S. Census Bureau — Street-address coordinates for New York entities filed in the last five years. |
warehouse | Open | Public domain (U.S. Government work) | |
| Corporate Number Publication Site (法人番号公表サイト) National Tax Agency, Japan — Every registered corporation in Tokyo, Kanagawa (Yokohama, Kawasaki) and Kansai (Osaka, Kyoto, Hyōgo, Nara, Shiga, Wakayama) with its address — monthly full files, located at town-block level with Geolonia's open address coordinates. |
warehouse | Open | Public Data License 1.0 (compatible with CC BY 4.0) | |
| japanese-addresses Geolonia — Coordinates of every town block (町丁目) in Japan. |
warehouse | Open | CC BY 4.0 | |
| 2020 Tokyo Metropolitan Input-Output Table (東京都産業連関表) Tokyo Metropolitan Government — Inter-industry transactions within Tokyo, 37 sectors including head-office activities (2020, latest). |
live | Open | CC BY 4.0 (Tokyo open data) | |
| 2020 Input-Output Tables for Japan (産業連関表) Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications — National inter-industry transactions, 37 sectors (2020, latest) — used outside Tokyo. |
live | Open | Government of Japan Standard Terms of Use (CC BY 4.0 compatible) | |
| Business licences and permits City of Toronto — Licensed businesses with their location (current licences), downloaded from the city portal; sector estimated from the licence category. |
warehouse | Open | Open Government Licence – Toronto | |
| Business licences City of Vancouver — Licensed businesses with their location (current licences), downloaded from the city portal; sector estimated from the licence category. |
warehouse | Open | Open Government Licence – Vancouver | |
| Calgary Business Licences City of Calgary — Licensed businesses with their location (current licences), downloaded from the city portal; sector estimated from the licence category. |
warehouse | Open | Open Government Licence – City of Calgary | |
| City of Edmonton – Business Licences City of Edmonton — Licensed businesses with their location (current licences), downloaded from the city portal; sector estimated from the licence category. |
warehouse | Open | Open Government Licence – City of Edmonton | |
| Business Licenses City of Winnipeg — Licensed businesses with their location (current licences), downloaded from the city portal; sector estimated from the licence category. |
warehouse | Open | Open Government Licence – Winnipeg | |
| Business Licenses – Current Active City of Chicago — Licensed businesses with their location (current licences), downloaded from the city portal; sector estimated from the licence category. |
warehouse | Open | City of Chicago Data Portal terms of use | |
| Legally Operating Businesses (DCWP) NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection — Licensed businesses with their location (current licences), downloaded from the city portal; sector estimated from the licence category. |
warehouse | Open | NYC Open Data terms of use | |
| Business Licenses (Licenses & Inspections) City of Philadelphia — Licensed businesses with their location (current licences), downloaded from the city portal; sector estimated from the licence category. |
warehouse | Open | City of Philadelphia open data terms | |
| Business Licenses (Current) City of Detroit (BSEED) — Licensed businesses with their location (current licences), downloaded from the city portal; sector estimated from the licence category. |
warehouse | Open | Detroit Open Data terms (public domain) | |
| Kent Öngörü — population projection and urban vulnerability (method) Berkay Memiş, Dokuz Eylül University — QGIS planning plugin whose methods GEONIA reimplements: cohort-component and trend projection, numerator / denominator vulnerability index with flood, heat and earthquake presets. |
warehouse | Open | GPL-2.0-or-later (method reimplemented, no code copied) | |
| Global Human Settlement Layer R2023A (built-up surface 2020, building height 2018) European Commission, Joint Research Centre — Built-up surface and average building height at 3 arc-seconds, summed by census unit. |
warehouse | Open | CC BY 4.0 | |
| Global river flood hazard maps v2.1 (100-year return period) Copernicus Emergency Management Service (GloFAS) — Flood depth of river floods with a 100-year return period, 3 arc-seconds; flood defences are not modelled. |
warehouse | Open | ODbL 1.0 | |
| GEM Global Active Faults Database Global Earthquake Model Foundation — Mapped traces of active faults worldwide; distance from each census unit. |
warehouse | Open | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
| NASA POWER climatology (2001-2020) NASA Langley Research Center — Monthly mean air temperature at 2 m on a 0.5° grid; the hottest month per census unit. |
warehouse | Open | Public domain | |
| OpenStreetMap (hospitals and fire stations, Overpass API) OpenStreetMap contributors — Hospitals and fire stations; distance from each census unit. |
warehouse | Open | ODbL 1.0 | |
| Eurostat life tables (demo_mlifetable) Eurostat — Life tables by sex and single year of age: survival ratios of the cohort-component projection. |
live | Open | CC BY 4.0 | |
| Ville de Montréal open data Ville de Montréal — City layers at street level: notices, events, public and cooled places, outdoor recreation, murals, EV chargers, audible crossings, work permits, cycling network and hourly air quality (RSQA). |
live | Open | CC BY 4.0 | |
| Vacant Land Inventory City of London (Ontario) — Every vacant parcel that could be developed, with its planning stage, designated land use, estimated housing capacity and area (quarterly update), from the City's open-data hub. |
live | Open | City of London Open Data Terms of Use (free reuse for any lawful purpose) | Where London (Ontario) can grow |
| Global Streetscapes NUS Urban Analytics Lab — Ten million street-level images (Mapillary, KartaView) in 688 cities with perception scores and scene composition; aggregated by city (scripts/build_streetscapes.py). Derived tables share alike. |
warehouse | Open | CC BY-SA 4.0 | How cities look and feel at street level |
| Roofpedia — solar and green roofs NUS Urban Analytics Lab — Buildings with rooftop solar panels or greenery detected on satellite imagery in 17 cities. |
warehouse | Open | CC BY 4.0 | Solar and green roofs |
| Global Building Morphology Indicators (GBMI) NUS Urban Analytics Lab — Building form indicators from OpenStreetMap on the WorldPop 1 km grid of 22 urban areas (Harvard Dataverse). |
warehouse | Open | CC BY 4.0 | How dense and tall cities are built |
| HDB3D — 3D model of Singapore's public housing NUS Urban Analytics Lab — Every HDB block (2019 edition) with year completed, storeys, height and dwelling units by flat type. |
warehouse | Open | Attribution: NUS Urban Analytics Lab, HDB, OpenStreetMap contributors, OneMap | Singapore's public housing |
| EUBUCCO v0.2 — European building stock EUBUCCO (TU Berlin, MCC Berlin and partners) — 322 million building footprints with type, height, storeys and floor area; NUTS 3 region statistics. |
warehouse | Open | ODbL (a few regional sources CC BY-SA or CC BY-NC) | Europe's building stock by region |
| Central Coordinating Register for Legal Entities (Enhetsregisteret) Brønnøysund Register Centre — Every active establishment (sub-unit) with location address, NACE code, employees registered with NAV and start date; main units give the legal form. Full extracts, refreshed daily. |
warehouse | Open | NLOD 2.0 | |
| Matrikkelen — official addresses and statistical units Kartverket (Norwegian Mapping Authority) — Coordinates and grunnkrets of every address (to place establishments), and grunnkrets boundaries. |
warehouse | Open | CC BY 4.0 | |
| Statistics Norway — StatBank (PxWebApi v2) Statistics Norway (SSB) — Population by grunnkrets (04317), household income by municipality (06944), regional accounts by county and industry (11713). |
live | Open | CC BY 4.0 | |
| BIXI station status (GBFS) BIXI Montréal — Bikes, e-bikes and free docks at every station, refreshed every minute. |
live | Open | BIXI open data licence | |
| Québec road traffic, roadworks and cameras Ministère des Transports et de la Mobilité durable — Annual average daily traffic by road segment, current roadworks and traffic cameras (WFS, live). |
live | Open | CC BY 4.0 | |
| Open-Meteo Open-Meteo — Current weather at any point (national weather services' models, incl. Environment Canada). |
live | Open | CC BY 4.0 | |
| MSC GeoMet weather radar Environment and Climate Change Canada — 1 km precipitation radar mosaic for North America, every 6 minutes. |
live | Open | Environment and Climate Change Canada Data Servers End-use Licence | |
| AIS vessel positions (aisstream.io) aisstream.io — Live AIS positions of ships, streamed by aisstream.io (free API key required). |
live | Open | aisstream.io terms of use | |
| GVCdtLab cost-based comparative advantage (CCA) GVCdtLab / CIRANO — Canada's cost-based comparative advantage (USD/kg) by product and trade corridor, 2022, including tariff-adjusted scores and redirection profit optimisation. |
warehouse | Licensed | Licensed — GVCdtLab partners | Trade redirection — Canadian exports Import substitution — alternative suppliers Redirection profit potential Critical minerals — trade redirection North American freight flows Interprovincial trade Tariff shock propagation Industry interconnectedness Emissions embodied in supply chains Trade-exposed employment |
| GVCdtLab St. Lawrence – Great Lakes studies GVCdtLab / CIRANO — Pre-rendered analytical studies of the St. Lawrence – Great Lakes maritime corridor. |
warehouse | Licensed | Licensed — GVCdtLab partners | St. Lawrence – Great Lakes studies Port network centrality Great Lakes water levels & shipping |
| Eurostat — regional accounts and input-output tables Eurostat — Gross value added by NUTS 3 region and NACE branch (nama_10r_3gva), GDP by NUTS 3 region (nama_10r_3gdp) and symmetric input-output tables (naio_10_cp1750), via the dissemination API. |
live | Open | Eurostat copyright — free reuse with attribution | |
| INSEE census by IRIS and commune, IGN IRIS and commune contours INSEE · IGN — Île-de-France IRIS and commune boundaries (IGN Géoplateforme), 2023 census population and unemployment by IRIS (INSEE Melodi) and Filosofi median standard of living by commune. |
warehouse | Open | Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 | |
| SIRENE establishment register (StockEtablissement, geolocation) INSEE — Every establishment (SIRET) with creation and closure dates, NAF activity, size band and INSEE geolocation; the Île-de-France panel is reconstructed from it. |
warehouse | Open | Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 | |
| Paris open data — permanent road counters, disruptive roadworks Ville de Paris — Hourly vehicle counts and occupancy on about 3,500 road segments (comptages routiers permanents) and roadworks that disrupt traffic (chantiers perturbants), via the Opendatasoft API. |
live | Open | ODbL | |
| Tokyo Metropolitan Government statistics — GDP accounts, Economic Census, population census Tokyo Metropolitan Government (Bureau of General Affairs, Statistics Division) — Tokyo GDP by economic activity (都民経済計算, nominal, fiscal years), persons engaged by municipality and industry (2021 Economic Census) and population by municipality (2025 census, preliminary). |
live | Open | CC BY 4.0 |
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