Currently, I'm aggregating data from github since there's no way of getting those values live (to my knowledge). I'm staying with the limit of the api rule so I'm limited to how much data I can retrieve per week. Yes it would be awesome if I can do it for more cities.
This is great. Is it open source? I would love to know more about how it works. Where do you get the source data? What is required in order to add more cities?
They've said that they would rather do a few cities very well than do a bunch of cities poorly. Also, one of the biggest obstacle is finding, getting permission to use, cleaning up, and publishing different datasets. This is much more of a social problem than technological, although it might improve when they have good reference implementations in their initial cities. Right now they have different datasets for each city because they take what data they can get.
The good news is that the journalism grant that funded them stipulated that they have to release their code at the end of the project, so when that comes, each city can make their own Everyblock if they have the will.
We're working on it! Our current plan is to get new cities up every week or two. We perform a lot of curation and research on top of raw data sources to get the cities in. Any places you'd like to see in particular?
Can you share details on the API / some example city datasets for quality? I have an idea for a 'innovation day' project and that can lead to integration in our product.
wow great work! i was looking for like 10 minutes to find a flaw but coulndt. good luck, i hope to see more cities or it would be interesting to scale it up and it could suggest me a city by my preferences.
I'd be interested if it included cities. If there was a javascript plugin to automatically help contribute (is that possible), I'd add it to some of my web pages. CSV is fine.
Hey everyone! We’ve been working closely with cities for the last two years to build a uniform hub for their data, and we’re excited to finally unveil the developer side to the world. We’re aiming to provide the world’s civic data in one place, in real-time, and with a simple uniform API. Instead of wrangling a grab bag of flat files for each place you want to build for, you can use a single endpoint to get consistent/quality data at any geographic scale, and work with any city in the world. If you aren’t a developer, you can use this to explore what’s going on in the physical world around you. There’s still a lot of work to do, and you can find our roadmap here: https://municipal.systems/roadmap (Let us know if you want to see anything sooner!)
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