Datamob: local

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/

New York City Subway Data

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:23:18 -0400

Official New York City MTA subway, bus and commuter rail schedule data, service status data, performance data, turnstile data, traffic and usage data. Available in General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) format, XML, CSV and plain text formats.

url: http://www.mta.info/developers/

Transparency Data

Sat, 15 May 2010 05:02:18 -0400

Transparency Data, a service from the Sunlight Foundation, is a central source for federal lobbyist registrations and federal and state campaign contributions. This tool is focused on giving people bulk access to U.S. government data in CSV format.

The Transparency Data API is also available for programmatic access to the data.

The current data on the site comes from Open Secrets and Follow the Money.

url: http://transparencydata.com/

toronto.ca/open

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:50:39 -0500

The City of Toronto's official data set catalog. Data available in XML and ESRI Shapefile formats.

url: http://www.toronto.ca/open/

NYCDataMine

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:01:39 -0500

NYC Data Mine is a catalog of public datasets generated by New York City agencies.

url: http://www.nyc.gov/html/datamine/html/home/home.shtml

New York City Baby Name Data

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:23:42 -0500

Two CSV files available for download: all New York City baby names dating back to 1920, and New York City baby names broken down by ethnicity, dating back to 1990.

Data supplied by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, compiled by Jennifer 8. Lee for the New York Times City Room Blog.

url: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/02/jayden-is-the-no-1-baby-boys-name-in-the-city/

The New York State Senate Open Legislation Service

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:22:24 -0500

Browse, search and download legislative information from the New York State Senate. Structured legislative information available in XML, CSV and JSON formats.

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

url: http://open.nysenate.gov/legislation/

Chronicling America API

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:43:49 -0400

Open programmatic access to information about historic American newspapers (1690-present) and select digitized newspaper pages (1880-1922). Returns results in Atom or Linked Data via RDF. Searching newspaper pages is also possible via OpenSearch. No API key or registration needed.

Sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

url: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/

Transport for London API

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:23:20 -0400

Programmatically access information on all forms of public transport in London. The ‘Tube this weekend’ feed contains information on planned line and station closures for the coming weekend. The ’Station location’ feed is a geo-coded KML feed of most London Underground, Docklands Light Railway and London Overground stations. The 'Findaride' KML feed contains details of licensed London minicab and other private-hire operators. Registration required.

url: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/businessandpartners/syndication/

IllinoisTrack.us: Raw Data

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:00:11 -0400

The data powering IllinoisTrack.us, harvested from the Illinois General Assembly website, made available in XML. By Josh Sulkin.

url: http://www.illinoistrack.us/developers

New York City Subway Ridership, 1905-2006

Mon, 18 May 2009 19:28:57 -0400

Download a spreadsheet containing the annual registrations, or recorded entries, at each station in the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority subway system from 1905-2006. Posted by Michael Frumin.

url: http://frumin.net/ation/2009/05/spark_it_up.html

Unofficial Chicago Transit Authority API

Sun, 10 May 2009 12:19:33 -0400

An unofficial, RESTful API for the Chicago Transit Authority. Get data for bus locations and routes. Results returned in XML. By Harper Reed.

url: http://chicagowiki.transitapi.com/Home

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

The New York Times New York State Legislature API

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:39:04 -0400

Get lists of New York State Senate and Assembly members, member details and committee information, and bill summaries and details. The data is updated twice daily from the New York State Assembly’s bill search function.

url: http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/ny_state_leg_api

California VoterConnect Geographic Political Data Repository

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:43:22 -0400

Access KML files of State Senate, Assembly and Congressional Districts, as well as individual precincts, for all of California. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

url: http://cavoterconnect.com/pub/kml/

Kiva API

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:57:18 -0500

Set of RESTful web services for fetching public data from the Kiva lending community. JSON and XML formats. No developer registration required.

Mobile Commons Legislative Lookup API

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:37:39 -0500

Database that matches latitude and longtitude with the U.S. congressional and state legislators for that location. Available as an API and as a standalone Rails application for download under an MIT License. By Mobile Commons.

url: http://mcommons.com/developers/legislative-lookup

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/

BART API

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:58:39 -0500

Developer-friendly real-time estimated time of arrival (ETA) feeds, transit schedules, advisory feeds and trip planning information for Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California. RESTful API returning results in XML. Licensed under a simple License Agreement with no usage limitations.

url: http://bart.gov/developers

Google Flu Trends

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:48:09 -0500

Download Google's weekly influenza-like illness (ILI) estimates for the United States in plain text or CSV format. Data is provided for each individual state, the nine influenza surveillance regions, and the entire United States.

url: http://www.google.org/about/flutrends/download.html

outside.in API

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:38:31 -0500

The Outside.in API lets you easily integrate hyperlocal news in your sites and applications by providing recent news stories and blog posts for any neighborhood, ZIP code, city, or state in the United States in JSON.

url: http://developers.outside.in

New York City Sign Permit Actions

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:17:24 -0400

Applications for sign permits in New York City. Published by the New York City Department of Buildings in Microsoft Excel format.

url: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dob/html/guides/weekly.shtml#sign

New York City Property Sales

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:08:07 -0400

Property sales reported by the New York City Department of Finance. Data is updated monthly and published in Microsoft Excel format.

url: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dof/html/property/property_val_sales.shtml

Washington, D.C. Citywide Data Warehouse

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:09:55 -0400

The Washington, D.C. Citywide Data Warehouse, also known as the DC Data Catalog, is a comprehensive collection of government activity data from the District of Columbia.

url: http://data.octo.dc.gov/

DontEat.at

Mon, 30 May 2011 20:57:11 -0400

Get a text message when you check in to a New York City restaurant that is at risk of being closed for health code violations.

A winner of NYC Big Apps 2.0.

By Max Stoller.

url: http://donteat.at/

Train Delay NYC

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:23:47 -0500

An iOS app for checking the status of New York City trains and buses.

By Scott Bossak.

url: http://traindelaynyc.com/

Exit Strategy NYC

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:37:25 -0400

Exit Strategy NYC is a mobile application that shows you where to stand on a given New York City subway platform, so you can board the train at the right position to arrive directly in front of the exit at your destination station. No phone service or wifi is needed.

By Jonathan and Ashley Wegener.

url: http://www.exitstrategynyc.com/

London Underground Live

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:05:07 -0400

Map showing all trains on the London Underground in approximately real time.

By Matthew Somerville, Frances Berriman and James Aylett.

url: http://traintimes.org.uk:81/map/tube/

Ride the City

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:16:48 -0400

Ride the City helps bicyclists find safe bike routes in major cities, including New York City, Chicago, Austin, San Diego, Seattle and Louisville.

Uses LION centerline data from NYC Data Mine.

By Vaidila Kungys and Jordan Anderson.

url: http://www.ridethecity.com/

Big Apple Ed

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:15:55 -0500

Big Apple Ed helps students, parents and teachers find out about New York City schools in one place by pulling together information from disparate sources, including view testing data, contact information, suspension rates and student/teacher ratios.

Third Place Overall Winner of the NYC Big Apps competition. Uses the School Search (NYC DOE) dataset from NYC Data Mine.

By Jonathan Soma, Adda Birnir and Kate Reyes.

url: http://www.bigappleed.com

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/

Census 2010 "Hard to Count" Interactive Maps

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:19:32 -0500

Maps the "hard to count" population nationwide to help organizations who are planning their outreach efforts for the 2010 Census.

The site provides interactive maps at the state, metropolitan area, county and tract level, along with detailed statistics for each area. You can search in various ways, and also add overlays showing Congressional districts, ZIP codes, tract-level maps of 2000 Census mail return rates, and recent foreclosure risk. An FAQ is available.

Submitted by Steven Romalewski

url: http://www.censushardtocountmaps.org/

NYC Way

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:17:05 -0500

NYC Way is an iPhone application that bundles a variety of local resources useful for residents and tourists alike. It happens to be one of the first mobile apps to combine a wide variety of datasets from NYC.gov (along with various third-party datasets), location awareness and social media. Experience the power of 30+ NYC-related iPhone apps packaged into one.

Based around the theme of making our government more transparent, NYC Way is a first step to help NYC.gov share their rich datasets with the rest of us. It uses various datasets from NYC Data Mine, and many others available via NYC.gov.

NYC Way is location-aware and provides you with information sorted by proximity. The app allows you to update your Facebook status or send out a tweet about any place you discovered or visited.

In an upcoming release, we plan to implement real-time location v/s interest analysis, and hook the app up to a sophisticated Complex Event Processing backend that will correlate user interests and actions with current situation and location to make valuable local recommendations.

NYC Way includes all of the following and more:

Nearest wifi hotspot locations
NYC restaurant inspection results
Major NYC tourist attractions
NYC street eats (NYC street vendors)
NYC coffee shops
NYC gadget stores
NYC events
NYC live traffic cams and traffic updates
NYC subway station locations and alerts
NYC police stations, wanted criminals, average emergency response times, ERs and more
Nearest waste disposal sites and waste collection schedules
Nearest post offices, 24-hour pharmacies, Zipcar locations
Swine flu vaccination locator, parking ticket search, can I park here
Volunteer opportunities
NYC local news including the New York Times, New York Post and WNBC
NYC recreation information including ice-skating rinks, zoos, aquariums and museums

Submitted by Shariq

url: http://www.nycway.com

California Stimulus Map

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:56:56 -0400

View information about projects in California known to have received funding from the federal government through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act). By Stamen Design.

Map data is available for download as a CSV.

url: http://www.recovery.ca.gov/HTML/RecoveryImpact/map.shtml

This We Know

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:22:41 -0400

Explore U.S. government data about your community. All data on the site is exposed as RDF that can be retrieved via the SPARQL Query Language. ThisWeKnow's long-term vision is to model the entire Data.gov catalog and make it available to the public as a large-scale online database using Semantic Web standards. By GreenRiver.org, Sway Design and Intellidimension.

Source code available under an MIT License.

url: http://www.thisweknow.org

IllinoisTrack.us

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:50:54 -0400

Tracking and analysis tool for the Illinois General Assembly. Track legislation, keep tabs on representatives in the Illinois House and Senate, and research the issues in the relevant committees. Details about how the site was built, and how the data is harvested from the Illinois General Assembly website, are available here. By Josh Sulkin.

url: http://www.illinoistrack.us/

NYC Subway Ridership Map

Mon, 18 May 2009 19:54:08 -0400

An interactive map of the New York City subway system showing ridership trends from 1905-2006. Ridership levels are indicated by subway line thickness, and you can use the slider in the lower right to navigate through time. Map powered by Modest Maps. By Sha Hwang.

More information here.

url: http://diametunim.com/shashi/nyc_subways/

Subway Sparklines

Mon, 18 May 2009 19:42:48 -0400

A map of the New York City subway system with sparklines showing ridership trends for each station from 1905-2006. By Michael Frumin.

url: http://transit.frumin.net/subway/spark.php

Umbrella Today

Thu, 14 May 2009 19:30:16 -0400

Find out if you'll need an umbrella today, via text message, email or web.

url: http://umbrellatoday.com

Interactive Map of the U.S. Recession

Sun, 10 May 2009 11:41:25 -0400

Interactive map showing unemployment numbers for each county in the U.S. from January 2007 to February 2009. By Slate Magazine.

url: http://www.slate.com/id/2216238/

LocalPolitics.in

Sun, 10 May 2009 11:00:27 -0400

Enter a U.S. ZIP code or city and state and get detailed federal government information for your location, including the top 10 recipients of government money in your neighborhood, the top 10 presidential campaign donors in your neighborhood, and the latest activities of your congressional representatives. Created for the Sunlight Foundation's Apps for America by Hashrocket.

url: http://localpolitics.in/

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/

Suburbified

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 09:30:25 -0500

Suburbified plots 10 years' worth of New York Times "Living In" columns about New York-area suburbs on an Open Street Map.

url: http://www.suburbified.com/

DIYtraffic Bot

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:53:24 -0500

The DIYtraffic Bot is a Java app that can be set up to create a Twitter bot that tweets alerts for any U.S. city from the Yahoo! Traffic API. The bot can also direct message Twitter users traffic updates for specific streets or highways in response to direct message queries.

Read the announcement on DIYcity for more information and check out the DIYtraffic Bots for San Francisco, Chicago and Portland.

url: http://diycity.org/wiki/index.php?title=DIYtraffic_-_Instructions_for_Installation

Stimulus Watch

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:48:37 -0500

Find, view, sort and discuss local projects that are candidates for funding by United States federal grant programs when the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passes. The projects come from the U.S. Conference of Mayors' Main Street Economic Recovery Report. Download dataset in Excel here.

url: http://stimuluswatch.org/

iLive.at

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:59:06 -0500

Enter a Washington, D.C. address and receive information tailored to that location and organized into categories like Errands, Emergencies, Recently Reported Crimes, People, Transportation and "Did You Know?" Built by Travis Hurant, Tim Koelkebeck and Brian Sobel for Apps for Democracy competition.

url: http://www.ilive.at/

DC Bikes

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:35:23 -0500

Guide to biking in Washington, D.C. where users can find detailed bike routes, monitor bike theft in real time and use Craigslist to shop for equipment. Uses data from the D.C. Data Catalog, the Mapnik toolkit and more. Built by Development Seed for the Apps for Democracy competition.

url: http://www.outsideindc.com/bikes

Richmond Sunlight

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:59:34 -0500

Website that aggregates information about Virginia's General Assembly, the lawmaking body that governs the state of Virginia. Basic metadata about every legislator is available as XML by replacing the trailing slash at the end of the legislator’s page on Richmond Sunlight with .xml. Legislators' voting records are available as a CSV download by appending votes/yyyy/csv/ to the legislator’s page.

url: http://www.richmondsunlight.com/

Represent

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:04:57 -0500

Find your elected representatives and get news about them. Available in New York City only.

See the announcement on Open for more information.

url: http://prototype.nytimes.com/represent/

NPR Road Trip

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:28:39 -0500

Locate National Public Radio (NPR) radio stations along any driving route in the United States.

url: http://www.nprroadtrip.com/

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/

All Streets

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:34:32 -0400

Image of the 26 million individual road segments of the U.S. No other features added. By Ben Fry.

url: http://benfry.com/allstreets/index.html

EveryBlock

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:54:59 -0400

Comprehensive geographic news filter, currently available for Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, DC, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and San Francisco.

url: http://www.everyblock.com/