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Most major cities have public data portals like this, including San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Boston, Seattle, Austin, Oakland, and so on. Some are more use
by Jemaclus 12y ago
Most major cities have public data portals like this, including San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Boston, Seattle, Austin, Oakland, and so on. Some are more useful than others, I think. (For instance, Oakland is mostly crime-related reports... surprise?)
San Francisco has some great ones that could be used to make new startups... things like street cleaning schedules, maps of every building in the city, the location of every parking space, and so on. You could easily build a niche app to, for example, remind you to move your car when street cleaning is coming by. Or maybe an app to inform you of local graffiti reports so you can be a good Samaritan and clean it up.
It's really great stuff. I love public data sets like this... and I'm actually using Chicago's (and several other cities) in my own work at my day job, so it's nice to see this get some recognition!
- varungoel 12y agoThe City of Chicago's open data portal is very neat! I've actually created an app called Car Pal which helps you avoid parking tickets by reminding you when to move you car based on where you park & street cleaning schedules. Check it out here https://www.carpalapp.com https://www.carpalapp.com Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slashg.carpal https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slashg.car...
- selectodude 12y agoI use the hell out of that app. Thank you very much for making it.
- varungoel 12y agoThank you so much Selectodude
- Jemaclus 12y agoThe open data portal is actually open source... many of the larger cities in the US are using it.. but yes, it's great!
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- mkaziz 12y agoDoes it work in the suburbs?
- schnable 12y agoPhilly was a pioneer in this with OpenDataPhilly: http://www.opendataphilly.org/ http://www.opendataphilly.org/ Some really interesting stuff has been built on this, like this map of property tax deadbeats: http://www.philadelinquency.com/map/delinquent.html http://www.philadelinquency.com/map/delinquent.html