The City of Vancouver has just released data on rental bylaw issues by address. As predicted there seem to be more issues in lower-income areas of the city. This will be a very interesting data set to play around with.
They’ve also got an interactive mapped version of the data on their website.
This is a map I made of all the city-maintained maple trees in Vancouver’s West End. I used batchgeo.com, a great web service for mapping data to Google Maps.
View Maple Trees in West End Vancouver in a full screen map.
The data needed minor clean-up. I filtered all maples, eliminated some records that weren’t actually in the West End, and did a concatenation to get full street addresses.
I’m enjoying clicking around to find and identify some of the maples near my apartment by zooming in, selecting satellite view, and then street view.
So this fall, I’ll know what the tree I’m admiring actually is. I’m looking forward to seeing them change colour.
Data source: City of Vancouver Open Data
