Datamob: environment

Farmers' Market API

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:46:34 -0500

Programmatic access to information about all the farmers' markets in the United States, via the USDA.

By Code for America fellow John Mertens.

url: http://codeforamerica.org/2011/08/08/farmers-market-api/

Social Actions API

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:55:40 -0400

Social Actions is an open source database of actions people can take on any issue, from volunteer opportunities to micro credit loans. The Social Actions RESTful API returns data in JSON format and contains up-to-date information about actions from 50+ sources, including Care2, DonorsChoose.org, Idealist and Kiva.

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license.

Weather Underground API

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:41:19 -0400

RESTful API providing programmatic access to real-time weather information for cities around the world.

url: http://wiki.wunderground.com/index.php/API_-_XML

MassGIS

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:00:13 -0500

Geographic and environmental data available for download from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts's Geographic Information System. Base map data includes roads, topographic features, and political boundaries. Other data includes crime and demographic data sliced geographically. MassGIS distributes vector data in Shapefile format and raster (image) data in TIFF, MrSID, JPEG 2000 and ERDAS Imagine formats.

url: http://www.mass.gov/mgis/

USDA Economic Research Service Datasets

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:39:52 -0500

Over 100 datasets from the United States Department of Agriculture, ranging from information about food availability in the U.S. to stats on the costs of specific agricultural products, like fertilizer and milk. Most data available for download as XLS.

url: http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/

Notices from the London Gazette

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:12:36 -0400

All notices published in the London Gazette, the UK government’s official journal and newspaper of record, in XML from February 2007 to May 2008.

url: http://www.londongazette.co.uk/mashup/gazettesdata.htm

UK Neighbourhood Statistics API

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:59:37 -0400

SOAP-based API from the UK Office of National Statistics for accessing data about UK neighborhoods. Includes data on the 2001 Census, Access to Services, Community Well-Being/Social Environment, Crime and Safety, Economic Deprivation, Education, Skills and Training, Health and Care, Housing, Indicators, Indices of Deprivation, People and Society, Physical Environment and Work Deprivation.

Read more about the data here.

url: http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/Info.do?page=nde.htm

Geographically Based Economic Data (G-Econ)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:39:17 -0400

Geophysically scaled economic dataset, containing economic activity for each 1x1 degree latitude-by-longitude cell on the globe. By Professor William Nordhaus of Yale University. Microsoft Excel format. Public domain.

url: http://gecon.yale.edu/

AMEE API

Fri, 02 May 2008 13:27:36 -0400

Query the AMEE ("Avoiding Mass Extinctions Engine") database of CO2 data and measure the carbon footprint of anything.

url: http://trac.co2.dgen.net/wiki/AmeeApi

Open Street Map

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:23:38 -0400

Free editable map of the earth, exportable in XML. Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 2.0 license.

url: http://openstreetmap.org/

USGS Earthquake Data

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:03:23 -0400

Latest earthquake data, available in CSV, XML, KML and Cube formats.

url: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/catalogs/

National Climatic Data Center Data Directory

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:30:36 -0400

World's largest active archive of weather data. Not all the data is free if you're not in school, in the military or working for the government. ASCII text.

url: http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/climatedata.html

Temperature Data Archive

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:14:47 -0400

Daily average temperatures for 157 U.S. and 167 international cities in ASCII text format.

url: http://www.engr.udayton.edu/weather/

Statistical Abstract of the United States

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:00:19 -0400

The U.S. Census Bureau's comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political and economic organization of the United States. Many tables downloadable in Microsoft Excel format.

url: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/

USGS Mineral Resources Data

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:37:16 -0400

Collection of downloadable datasets on mineral resources in the U.S.

url: http://tin.er.usgs.gov/

UNEP Global Environment Outlook Data Portal

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:31:03 -0400

Datasets used by United Nations Environment Programme and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report, covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP. Data can be displayed as maps, graphs or tables and downloaded in various formats.

url: http://geodata.grid.unep.ch/

Climate Data Archives

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:30:42 -0400

url: http://climate.geog.udel.edu/~climate/html_pages/download.html

Navajo Nation Water Quality Project

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:42:52 -0500

The Navajo Nation Water Quality Project makes Navajo Nation water quality information available for the first time online.

Many parts of the Navajo Indian reservation in the southwestern U.S. are contaminated with radioactive debris left over from Cold War uranium mining. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency did extensive water sampling in the 1990s to determine which Navajo water sources were contaminated and which were safe to drink from, but this data was never made available to the public in an accessible form. The Navajo Nation Water Quality project seeks to address that.

A joint project of Groundswell Educational Films and the Northwestern University Chemistry Department.

url: http://navajowater.org/

Worldometers

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:21:18 -0500

Worldometers collects and displays real-time statistics on global population, government and economics, society and media, the environment, energy, food, water and health. Part of the Real Time Statistics Project.

Check out their many data sources.

url: http://www.worldometers.info

Playaround NYC

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:28:40 -0500

PlayaroundNYC was created to help New Yorkers see how well their neighborhoods are supported by playgrounds. It uses walking distance to playgrounds and pollution caused by nearby truck routes to generate an overview of how well different areas of New York City are supported by playgrounds. An interactive map allows users to determine the proximity and quality of nearby playgrounds in all five boroughs.

Uses the following NYC Data Mine datasets: Directory of Playgrounds, Borough & Community Districts; and GIS: Boroughs.

By Noel Billig.

url: http://www.playaroundnyc.com/

Trees Near You

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:55:41 -0500

Trees Near You is an iPhone application that helps you learn about the more than 500,000 trees that live on New York City sidewalks. For any area of the city, from block to borough, you can see the different species that live there, and measure the environmental (and monetary!) benefits that these trees provide.

Winner of the Best Application Honorable Mention in the NYC Big Apps competition. Uses the following NYC Data Mine datasets: "Street Tree Census" files for all five boroughs, and "Neighborhood Names GIS" for neighborhood names centroids.

By Brett Camper.

url: http://www.treesnearyou.com/

Social Actions Tuner

Sat, 09 May 2009 10:39:48 -0400

A tool for finding the volunteer and donation opportunities you're interested in more quickly. By Ehren Foss, David Petersen and Jake Hofman.

Source code available via SVN.

url: http://satuner.preludeinteractive.com/

Social Actions for Twitter Trends

Sat, 09 May 2009 10:19:01 -0400

A web service which matches the latest trending topics on Twitter with related actions for good causes on Social Actions.

url: http://trends.emerich.de/

Earthquake Heat Map

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:34:30 -0500

A heat map showing recent earthquakes, based on the USGS earthquake dataset.

Submitted by Sunil

url: http://sunild.com/proto/Earthquakes2/Earthquakes.html

San Francisco Walkability Map

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:09:59 -0400

Detailed map of the most walkable sections of San Francisco, CA, using data from Walk Score. Created with Processing. Scraping code available for download. By Lee Byron.

url: http://leebyron.com/how/2008/07/13/mapping-walkability-san-francisco/

Walk Score

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:52:21 -0400

Ranks U.S. addresses by walkability by means of Walk Scores. By Front Seat civic software.

url: http://www.walkscore.com/

The UK Carbon Footprint Project

Fri, 02 May 2008 13:36:18 -0400

Platform for calculating, reducing and mapping the carbon footprint of U.K. citizens. A project from Google.

url: http://www.google.co.uk/carbonfootprint/index.html

Worldmapper

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:28:43 -0400

A collection of cartograms, maps in which territories are resized according to measures like population, poverty, religion.

url: http://www.worldmapper.org/index.html

ExxonSecrets

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:40:21 -0400

Greenpeace research project which uses the TheyRule mapping interface to explore how climate change skeptics receive funding from ExxonMobil.

url: http://www.exxonsecrets.org/maps.php