Are Apartments Allowed?

Interactive visualization of restrictions on housing in Canadian cities

Introduction

AAA is a webapp visualizing where you're allowed to build affordable multi-family housing in large Canadian cities. The stack is entirely self-hosted: the backend consists of vector tiles generated from OpenStreetMap data using Tilemaker and served with Martin, and the frontend is written in Svelte using shadcn components and svelte-maplibre.

Deployment

For now, supported deployment is through Podman (Docker should work fine too). Use this compose file to get started:

services:
    apts-frontend:
        image: docker.io/ericdaigle/apartments-frontend:latest
        container_name: apts-frontend
        restart: always
        ports:
            - 80:8080
        environment:
            - BACKEND_DOMAIN=localhost
            - BACKEND_PORT=3000
        depends_on:
            - apts-backend

    apts-backend:
        image: docker.io/ericdaigle/apartments-backend:latest
        container_name: apts-backend
        restart: always
        ports:
            - 3000:3000

podman-compose up -d shoud then bring up the application at port 8080 on localhost.2

Data

City	Zoning Dataset	Building Dataset	Licences
Edmonton	Zoning Bylaw Geographical Data	3D Buildings	Open Government Licence - Edmonton
Regina	Land Use and Zoning	Building Outline	Open Government Licence - City of Regina