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Show HN: We built a platform for developers to build with real-time civic data (municipal.systems)
24 points by bmckim 2780 days ago
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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!)
This is really awesome. For NYC what data is actually real time?
Currently for NYC we have 311 issues, traffic incidents, traffic jams, air measurements, transit stations and transit vehicles.
Wow. This is great. I don't know yet what I would use it for but I always wondered where I would get such data. Thanks. Keep hustling !