> Do cities offer a convenient API to access certain events like construction and so on? As someone who worked a bit on the smartcity effort, let me answer : B

> Do cities offer a convenient API to access certain events like construction and so on? As someone who worked a bit on the smartcity effort, let me answer : Bwahahaha! No. Not even close. Actually I wonder if you dressed up as city workers and started drilling holes in the pavement, how long it would take for anyone to figure you are not supposed to do that. Yes, I wish cities had a budget to do GIS right and have an open API for finding things like map of pipes, of streets, of construction work schedule, etc... The effort to make that happen is called Open Data. Recently commendable improvements have been made, but we are not there yet.