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nice!


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.


db/schema.rb


schema.rb contains an _incomplete_ reflection on the current SQL schema. No references, no relationships.

If you don't know the difference between AR and a declarative ORM you may want to refrain from dropping smarty oneliners.


At absolutely no point in our dev team's existence did we find a huge need to have more than the model files and/or schema.rb as a schema reference. If you can't infer what you need to from there, then maybe web dev's not your bag, baby


then maybe web dev's not your bag, baby

Over the past 15yrs I've written web-apps in 7 different languages and a wide range of frameworks.

From your comment I can infer that you know Ruby on Rails, and that's pretty much it. Maybe you should reconsider your tone?


He is a Ruby hipster. They are all about smart one liners.


Now has json(p), XML, and text options.


It is open source and taking pull requests here - https://github.com/brookemckim/internetaddress.me


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