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Originally Posted by Ed007Toronto

Any of you that have used UT (or SRC Calgary/Edmonton) might pipe in with your experiences. We get a ton of traffic on UT and I think most are quite happy. https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/forums/buildings.5/

I use UrbanToronto quite regularly and it is much easier and more convenient to use than SSP.

I won't repeat what @UrbOttawa has summarized below but they have done a great job at listing the benefits of Skyrise.

Regarding the issue of losing historical data, SSP does have all the data but I find it quite difficult to find when I actually need it. A few examples of SSP having the data but not being able to find it:

1. Finding Photos - Let's say I want to find a specific photo that I know was posted in the Claridge Icon thread. The only way to find it is to click and scroll through all 116 pages until I see it. On Skyrise, there is a central database page where you can see an album of all images that have been posted in the forum section about that project.

2. Searching - I don't know if I'm doing it wrong, but I have never had luck with the search function on this site. For example, when searching for the Claridge Icon thread to see how many pages there are on it, I searched "claridge icon" and it didn't come up (see below snip). That seems like a pretty glaring issue for finding historical data on SSP.


3. Lack of a Map Let's say I know roughly where a project is in the city but I don't know the name or address, or as I showed above, the search function doesn't work. Edward mentioned we could get the map set up which I feel is one of the most useful parts of UrbanToronto.