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As a Seattle resident, I'm pretty excited to see this. There's a lot of interesting data here, but it seems that very little of it is available through an API[1
by bilalq 12y ago
As a Seattle resident, I'm pretty excited to see this. There's a lot of interesting data here, but it seems that very little of it is available through an API[1]. Still, I imagine this will improve with time.
There are a lot of cities trending towards making information like this more easily accessible. It'd be even better if there was some form of standardization between cities though.
- spb 12y agoIf you're interested in working with this data, you should come to the next Code for Seattle meetup: http://codeforseattle.org/ http://codeforseattle.org/
- ntaylor 12y agoBased on http://data.lacity.org http://data.lacity.org, I'd say standardization is in the cards.
- uses 12y agoIn this case, both projects appear to have been produced by Socrata.
- Mister_Snuggles 12y agoThey also produced the City of Edmonton one - the icons and functionality appears exactly the same: https://data.edmonton.ca https://data.edmonton.ca
- Alupis 12y agoWow. This is done very well. Bravo to Seattle, a model for how other's should do open government data.
- sethvincent 12y agoYou can get at most of the data via Socrata's API, it's just not necessarily clear how. This new documentation from Socrata helps, though: http://dev.socrata.com/ http://dev.socrata.com/
- saraid216 12y ago> It'd be even better if there was some form of standardization between cities though. ISO standards were just agreed on, in fact. http://www.citylab.com/politics/2014/06/finally-clear-performance-data-for-comparing-the-worlds-cities/372143/ http://www.citylab.com/politics/2014/06/finally-clear-perfor...