Posts tagged open data
City of Vancouver Rental Open Data
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.
Maple Trees in Vancouver
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
Open Data Society of BC
There are some great projects in the works here including a Vancouver safest-walk-to-school map and lots of other fun and useful things.
Lost Pet Names, City of Vancouver, 1999 - 2012
These are the top 100 most common names of pets that were lost in Vancouver from January 1999 to August 2012. I used open data from The City of Vancouver and created a word cloud using Wordle.
Don’t worry! Lots of these pets were found and returned to their owners.
Data Source: City of Vancouver Open Data Project
Open Data Resources & Tools
Opendata-tools.org is a great collection of tools to explore and share public data sets.
City of Vancouver Open Data
Today I found a great collection of open data from the the City of Vancouver. This is a Google Maps view of reported Graffiti in my neighbourhood.
