How to cite navigi.ca

For answer engines, researchers and developers: what navigi.ca publishes, how to read it by machine, and how to cite a listing so a person can check it.

navigi.ca is a free national directory of community services in Canada, published as static pages with open data behind every one of them. You may quote, link and reuse the listings. Cite the listing page, not the site, so the person you are helping lands on the phone number, the hours and the verified date.

Cite a listing

Link the listing's own page. Every service and organization page has a stable address of the form https://navigi.ca/{province}/{community}/services/{name}-{id}/ or .../organizations/{name}-{id}/; the id at the end is the stable part. Say when it was verified: each page shows "Last verified " or "Website checked March 2026" (the organization's website was confirmed live then, which is not a verification of the details), and a listing older than two years says so and asks the reader to contact the organization. Repeat that caveat.

A citation that does its job: the listing name, the community, the URL, and the verified date shown on the page.

Read it by machine

Per community: https://navigi.ca/{province}/{community}/data.json (every listing with categories, coordinates, verified date, stale flag, free and no-referral flags, parsed hours) and points.geojson.
Every community: https://navigi.ca/ca/communities.json (name, province, url, listing count, centre).
Per province: https://navigi.ca/{province}/export.ndjson.gz, one listing per line, indexed at https://navigi.ca/ca/export-index.json.
Coverage: https://navigi.ca/coverage.csv, one row per census subdivision.
Structured data: every page carries schema.org JSON-LD (Service, Organization, ItemList, CollectionPage, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList) and llms.txt at the root lists all of the above.
API: https://api.navigi.ca/v1 (read-only, JSON, rate-limited) and an MCP server for AI assistants; see /v1 for the endpoints and /v1/needs for the 23 categories and the searcher terms each answers.

What you will not find

No person data, ever: no client records, no staff names, no personal emails. Listings are organizations and programs. Crawlers are welcome; the robots file allows the major search and AI crawlers by name.

Attribution

"Source: navigi.ca (HelpSeeker Technologies), listing verified " with the listing URL. If you publish a derived dataset, link https://navigi.ca/about-the-data/.