Hello all,
I'm a volunteer with the Durham, NC Code for America chapter. We are starting
work on exposing permit data for the Triangle area (Raleigh, Durham, CH, Cary)
to the citygram.org service (a service to make it easy for lay-people to
subscribe to city related events around their city).
As we've determined thus far CfA groups write simple services that create
GeoJson feeds for their particular data type (code enforcement, police 911
calls, 311 reports, permits, etc).
Our challenge with regard to permit data is two fold: permit data for the
various cities is all different, and public (via arcgis mostly), but not
exactly publicized (and sans data dictionaries). How do we make this publicize
this information in the long term, and support this citygram service?
The GeoReport spec looks like one model: we could create publish our services
(a translation of the various city's GIS data), publish a service list, and
then provide a subsequent integration services for citygram in the format they
prefer.
Or, perhaps make use of our new 'open data portals' - work with each city to
expose their GIS data via their open data portals, and write our integration
services for citygram.
Any advice out there for undertaking integrations like this?
Thanks so much!
Dane
I'm a volunteer with the Durham, NC Code for America chapter. We are starting
work on exposing permit data for the Triangle area (Raleigh, Durham, CH, Cary)
to the citygram.org service (a service to make it easy for lay-people to
subscribe to city related events around their city).
As we've determined thus far CfA groups write simple services that create
GeoJson feeds for their particular data type (code enforcement, police 911
calls, 311 reports, permits, etc).
Our challenge with regard to permit data is two fold: permit data for the
various cities is all different, and public (via arcgis mostly), but not
exactly publicized (and sans data dictionaries). How do we make this publicize
this information in the long term, and support this citygram service?
The GeoReport spec looks like one model: we could create publish our services
(a translation of the various city's GIS data), publish a service list, and
then provide a subsequent integration services for citygram in the format they
prefer.
Or, perhaps make use of our new 'open data portals' - work with each city to
expose their GIS data via their open data portals, and write our integration
services for citygram.
Any advice out there for undertaking integrations like this?
Thanks so much!
Dane