Datamob: urban

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/

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/

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/

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

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/

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

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

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

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Data

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:51:30 -0400

Downloadable datasets from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Policy Development and Research office, including data on fair market rents, the American Housing Survey, USPS vacancies and Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSE). Microsoft Excel format.

url: http://www.huduser.org/datasets/pdrdatas.html

Civic Footprint API

Sun, 04 May 2008 22:02:10 -0400

Look up the political geography of any address in Cook County, Illinois.

url: http://www.civicfootprint.org/about/api

Zillow U.S. Neighborhood Boundary Data

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:55:49 -0400

Data on the boundaries of 7,000 U.S. urban neighborhoods. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license. Arc Shapefile format.

url: http://www.zillow.com/labs/NeighborhoodBoundaries.htm

San Francisco Building Permit Activity

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:30:38 -0400

Building permits issued or applied for as reported by the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection (DBI), published in Microsoft Excel format.

url: http://www.sfgov.org/site/dbi_page.asp?id=30605

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

Freeway Traffic Analysis: I-880 Database

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:08:51 -0400

Data on traffic flow on the I-880 freeway in California.

url: http://ipa.eecs.berkeley.edu/~pettyk/FSP/

Neighborhood Knowledge Los Angeles (NKLA) Data

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:11:08 -0400

Data on tax-delinquent properties and demographic information in Los Angeles, offered to help prevent housing conditions from deteriorating.

url: http://nkla.sppsr.ucla.edu/

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/

U.S. Public Transit Schedule Data

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:09:13 -0400

A list of U.S. transit schedule data published by transit agencies and operators in Google Transit Feed Specifcation (GTFS) format. They contain scheduled times, stop locations, route information and optionally fare information and detailed route shapes.

url: http://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/wiki/PublicFeeds

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/

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

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

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

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/

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/

DataPlace 2.0 (Beta)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:17:55 -0400

DataPlace is a free online data system that assembles a variety of housing and demographic data at geographic scales ranging from the neighborhood to the nation. DataPlace is unique in its emphasis on data comparability and quality, and for its licensing options available to organizations that would like to create their own data sites. By Knowledge Plex, Inc. More information about its data sources is available here.

url: http://beta.dataplace.org/

Illegal Signs Map

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:45:47 -0400

Interactive map of illegal billboards in Toronto, Canada. Data is derived from Freedom of Information requests.

url: http://illegalsigns.ca/map/

SpotCrime.com

Tue, 13 May 2008 21:38:37 -0400

Interactive maps of urban crime in the U.S. Registered users can receive crime alerts via email or SMS.

url: http://spotcrime.com/

D.C. Data Pipes

Mon, 12 May 2008 20:13:07 -0400

Yahoo Pipes created using public space permit, crime incident, building permit, service request, and juvenile arrests and charges data from Washington, D.C. Citywide Data Warehouse. Each pipe allows users to filter data and return results—in some cases, results are also mapped. By Frank Winstead.

url: http://pipes.yahoo.com/frank_winstead

JDLand

Mon, 12 May 2008 19:40:41 -0400

Website chronicling the redevelopment of the "Near Southeast" neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Uses data from Washington, D.C. Citywide Data Warehouse to report recent crime incidents, building permits, public space permits, service requests and real property sales.

url: http://www.jdland.com

CrimeReports.com

Mon, 12 May 2008 19:23:46 -0400

Maps crime data from cities and law enforcement agencies around the U.S. By Public Engines, Inc., a private company that provides web-based products to help government agencies share information directly with local communities.

url: http://www.crimereports.com

Civic Footprint

Sun, 04 May 2008 21:50:38 -0400

A tool for exploring the political geography of Cook County, Illinois. By the Center for Neighborhood Technology.

url: http://www.civicfootprint.org/

Internet Map

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:33:48 -0400

Set of visualizations showing how cities around the world are interconnected via internet router configurations. 89,344 connections mapped in all. By Chris Harrison.

url: http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/InternetMap/index.html

Oakland Crimespotting

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:52:38 -0400

Interactive map of crimes in Oakland, California.

url: http://oakland.crimespotting.org/

zipdecode

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:24:58 -0400

Animated explorer of U.S. ZIP code districts. By Ben Fry.

url: http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/zipdecode/

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/