Curated Tour of District's Open Data Site
donaldbraman opened this issue · comments
(feature request)
There's a ton of information there, and the gems are buried with a lot of rubble. It has good resources, e.g., for mapping. It will soon (Nov 18th!) have all the OCF data in json/xml/csv. It has tons of transit information. Each of these things is useful to multiple projects, and it seems like we end up sharing that knowledge in fairly informal ways. If there were a section on mapping, I know I'd use it! (And if there were a section for campaign contributions, I'd be happy to contribute to it.)
Additionally, it would be a great place to host a list of important data missing from the District's open data site.
This is very doable. I think there's going to be a section on the site with a few guides in it soon, which could include this. The way it's going to work is that the site will pull in some of the files in the guides repo through a submodule.
Perhaps this would fit well as part of a "Where to Find Data" guide?
Sounds great!
I started a file over at https://github.com/codefordc/guides/blob/master/where-to-get-data.md. Feel free to add to it. I think the idea is that we'll link to sites with datasets rather than directly to individual datasets.