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Newsletter: October 2026
Curbcut Studio is live: hundreds of ready-to-use indicators, an analysis assistant and shareable dashboards for planning teams. Plus team news and SIIViM 2026.
Making spatial insights accessible.
Web platforms that turn geospatial data into decisions for governments, planning firms and researchers. No GIS expertise needed.
Tree canopy
Ecology
20.2%Le Plateau
Slightly above the Montréal average of 19.7%.
Trusted by public agencies, non-profits and research networks across Canada.
Curbcut Studio
Community data, ready to use.
A collaborative workspace for projects that need spatial insights. Anyone on your team can explore the data, then build dashboards and reports for your stakeholders.
Commute by transit
Montréal · Census tracts
Explore
Pick an indicator and see it across your region, from the whole area down to a single block. No GIS needed.
Households in core housing need
12.8%−1.4 since 2021
Build
Turn what you find into dashboards and reports with live charts. Ask the assistant when you’re not sure where to start.
yourcity.studio.curbcut.ca/housing
Housing in our region, 2026
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Publish to your own web address, embed it on your site, or export to PDF and Word. In English and French.
Who we serve
For the people who decide what happens where.
Government
Evidence for housing, climate and policy decisions.
Planning firms
Faster client analysis, with no data pipelines to build.
Research groups
Link your work to national datasets and share it openly.
Our data
The Databridge.
Our core innovation. Every dataset connected across space and time, so you can finally analyse beyond silos.
Explore the data
Bike share trips vs. active living potential
Bivariate · 2025 and 2021, by census tract
Bike share trip counts
Trips per km² · 2025, by census tract
Active living potential
Index · 2021, by census tract
Bike share stations
Trips started and ended · 2025
Montréal
Basemap
- indicators, ready to map
- 100+
- dissemination areas, coast to coast
- 57,000+
- years of census history, 1996 to 2021
- 25
- themes, from housing to land use
- 6
Our work
Built with our partners.
Beyond Studio, we also design and build custom platforms.
Case studies and research
Rooted in research from the start.
About us
The Curbcut effect.
A curb cut makes sidewalks accessible to everyone. We do the same for spatial data.
Learn more
What we do
We build platforms that transform how organizations access spatial insights, removing barriers between people and the information they need to understand and shape the world around them.
Who we are
We are a team of urban planning and geospatial experts with an aspiration to create more sustainable, just and inclusive communities.
Our studio, Montréalcontact@curbcut.ca