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50 years from now, will cities provide "APIs" for residents to query & access city data and services? will i be able to "REST" some "JSON" telling me when the t

50 years from now, will cities provide "APIs" for residents to query & access city data and services? will i be able to "REST" some "JSON" telling me when the tree around the corner that my dog likes best was last watered? i would love this. note: "quotes" used because who knows what interfaces will be the saveurs du jour, then.

grilledchickenw 7y ago
50 years? Try Iceland, right now. http://docs.apis.is/ http://docs.apis.is/ APIs for gas stations, concerts, TV schedules, school syllabi...
- GrumpyNl 7y ago
  Thats great, gonna play around with that
- deleted 7y ago
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- LessDmesg 7y ago
  Those Vikings are sure damn smart...
progman32 7y ago
The average city is swimming in data these days. Many expose it through various APIs. The Socrata platform (disclaimer: I work there) is one example of many. For instance, here's Edmonton's tree dataset: https://data.edmonton.ca/Environmental-Services/Trees/eecg-fc54 https://data.edmonton.ca/Environmental-Services/Trees/eecg-f... API docs are here (there's an API button on the top right of the first linked page that takes you here): https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/data.edmonton.ca/eecg-fc54 https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/data.edmonton.ca/eecg-fc54 Example query - 10 most recently-planted trees bearing edible fruit: https://data.edmonton.ca/resource/eecg-fc54.json?$query=select%20owner,%20planted_date,%20type_of_edible_fruit%20where%20bears_edible_fruit%20=%20%22Yes%22%20order%20by%20planted_date%20desc%20limit%2010 https://data.edmonton.ca/resource/eecg-fc54.json?$query=sele...
hk__2 7y ago
Lots of cities now have open data. Paris (France), for example, has both fixed datasets and real-time ones: https://opendata.paris.fr/ https://opendata.paris.fr/
JorgeGT 7y ago
My city (third largest in Spain) already has APIs for querying static and real-time data: http://gobiernoabierto.valencia.es/en/info-api/ http://gobiernoabierto.valencia.es/en/info-api/
max_likelihood 7y ago
My father owned a tree service in the town I grew up in. We spent countless hours driving around town, looking at different trees and giving estimates for trimming and removal. I could imagine leveraging this data as almost a Zillow for trees.

grilledchickenw 7y ago

50 years? Try Iceland, right now. http://docs.apis.is/ http://docs.apis.is/ APIs for gas stations, concerts, TV schedules, school syllabi...

GrumpyNl 7y ago
Thats great, gonna play around with that
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LessDmesg 7y ago
Those Vikings are sure damn smart...

progman32 7y ago

The average city is swimming in data these days. Many expose it through various APIs. The Socrata platform (disclaimer: I work there) is one example of many. For instance, here's Edmonton's tree dataset: https://data.edmonton.ca/Environmental-Services/Trees/eecg-fc54 https://data.edmonton.ca/Environmental-Services/Trees/eecg-f... API docs are here (there's an API button on the top right of the first linked page that takes you here): https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/data.edmonton.ca/eecg-fc54 https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/data.edmonton.ca/eecg-fc54 Example query - 10 most recently-planted trees bearing edible fruit: https://data.edmonton.ca/resource/eecg-fc54.json?$query=select%20owner,%20planted_date,%20type_of_edible_fruit%20where%20bears_edible_fruit%20=%20%22Yes%22%20order%20by%20planted_date%20desc%20limit%2010 https://data.edmonton.ca/resource/eecg-fc54.json?$query=sele...

hk__2 7y ago

Lots of cities now have open data. Paris (France), for example, has both fixed datasets and real-time ones: https://opendata.paris.fr/ https://opendata.paris.fr/

JorgeGT 7y ago

My city (third largest in Spain) already has APIs for querying static and real-time data: http://gobiernoabierto.valencia.es/en/info-api/ http://gobiernoabierto.valencia.es/en/info-api/

max_likelihood 7y ago

My father owned a tree service in the town I grew up in. We spent countless hours driving around town, looking at different trees and giving estimates for trimming and removal. I could imagine leveraging this data as almost a Zillow for trees.