BuildMap
Live building permits and development applications
Details
- External ID
- 1250577
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- BuildMap
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Marketing, Maps
- Fetched at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 16, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
Description
BuildMap pulls real-time data from municipal open data portals in Ontario and plots it on an interactive map — building permits, development applications, planning decisions, and demolitions, all in one place. What you can do: • Browse live permit and development data across 15+ Ontario cities • Filter by type, status, and date range • Set alerts for specific cities or custom radius areas • Save and track locations you're following • Share permit details as a card
Enrichment
- Theme
- specialized calculators and estimation tools
- Vertical
- Real estate
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- live building permits and development applications tracker
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Displaying points on a map is easy, but continuously ingesting, normalizing, geocoding, and deduplicating municipal open data across 15+ disparate city portals with varying schemas and update cadences is challenging.
What it would actually take: Requires an ETL data ingestion pipeline (e.g., Dagster or Airflow with PostGIS) running scheduled scrapers for CKAN, ArcGIS Open Data, and custom city APIs across 15+ Ontario municipalities. The hard engineering lies in cleaning dirty municipal addresses, handling disparate data schemas, geocoding unmapped permits, and handling frequent schema breaking changes.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #29 of 58 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 237 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.