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à portée

What is à portée?

à portée (French for within reach) shows how long it takes to reach everyday places from every block in Canada, on foot, by bike or by transit. Pick the places that matter to you, such as a grocery store, a school or a park, and the map colours each block by the time it takes to get there.

The map over the Beltline in Calgary, coloured for grocery stores: dark green blocks within 5 minutes' walk, through yellow and orange to red past 25 minutes. The sidebar lists Grocery with its travel mode and time limit.The map over the Beltline in Calgary, coloured for grocery stores: dark green blocks within 5 minutes' walk, through yellow and orange to red past 25 minutes. The sidebar lists Grocery with its travel mode and time limit.

Measured along real streets

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Instead of drawing circles around places, à portée routes every trip along the streets and paths in OpenStreetMap, with R5, an open-source routing engine. The routing also accounts for hills and for time spent waiting for transit.

For the full details, check out the Methodology page.

Everyday places

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à portée covers a wide range of everyday destinations, from food and health care to schools, parks and community services:

  • Grocery
  • Pharmacy
  • Bakery
  • Restaurant
  • Café
  • Bars/pubs
  • School
  • Library
  • Park
  • Playground
  • Childcare
  • Community centre
  • Hospital
  • Clinic
  • Nursing home
  • Bookstore
  • Hardware store
  • Bike shop
  • College or university
  • Convenience store
  • Post office
  • Bank
  • Dentist
  • Laundromat
  • Dog park
  • Place of worship
  • Pool
  • Ice rink
  • Sports field or court

For details on what counts for each point of interest, check the Amenities page.

Fresh data

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The places come from OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps, checked against Statistics Canada’s databases of health and educational facilities. We rebuild the maps and routes every month; we last updated the data on October 8, 2026.

Data on demand

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You can download the amenity database as open data, or ask us for bulk extracts, earlier versions or custom analysis.

What now?

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