Toronto Parks
A reference layer of the parks, golf courses, cemeteries and other public green spaces published by the City of Toronto — 1,653 polygons with names — ready to add to the OpenStreetMap editors iD and JOSM while you map.
Park data © City of Toronto, published under the
Open Government Licence – Toronto.
Source: Green Spaces.
Preview
Coverage vs OpenStreetMap: see which City parks are
missing from OSM or named differently — a mapper's
worklist with an interactive map and table.
Two layers — which to use
| Vector layer | Interactive. Click a polygon to read its tags
(name, class, area_id).
Best in iD. |
|---|---|
| Raster layer | Boundaries and park names drawn directly on the tiles. A readable backdrop. Best in JOSM. |
Heads-up: at city-overview zooms only parks big enough to
read are labelled — big parks from city zoom, small parkettes as you
zoom in. From the closer raster zooms inward every named park is labelled;
small parks carry their name just below the polygon so it never overhangs.
Add to iD
Vector layer (interactive)
- Open the iD editor and press U for the Map Data panel.
- Under Custom Map Data, open the settings and paste this URL:
https://skfd.github.io/toronto-parks-layer/tiles/vector/{z}/{x}/{y}.pbf
Zoom in, then click any park to see its tags in the inspector.
Raster layer (visible names)
- Open the Background panel and choose Custom.
- Paste this URL template:
https://skfd.github.io/toronto-parks-layer/tiles/raster/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
Add to JOSM
Raster layer (recommended for JOSM)
- Open Preferences → Imagery and click +TMS.
- Paste this entry (the
tms[13,17]prefix sets the zoom range; JOSM scales it up past z17):
tms[13,17]:https://skfd.github.io/toronto-parks-layer/tiles/raster/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.png
Give it a name such as Toronto Parks, click OK, then enable
it from the Imagery menu. Note JOSM's placeholder is
{zoom}, not {z}.
Vector layer (optional)
JOSM can also add the vector tiles via Preferences → Imagery → +MVT:
https://skfd.github.io/toronto-parks-layer/tiles/vector/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.pbf
Notes
- Polygons kept from the Green Spaces dataset: parks, open green spaces, golf courses, cemeteries and civic squares. Traffic islands, road slivers, hydro corridors and the numbered “TRCA Lands” parcels are filtered out.
- Vector tiles are pre-rendered through zoom 19; raster tiles for z13–17 (the editor overzooms them further).
- Tiles are refreshed weekly from the City's dataset (the City updates it monthly).
- This is a reference layer — verify against survey or imagery before copying anything into OpenStreetMap.