README.md

About

This repository contains information and resources that relate to the Rochester Civic App Challenge. Here you will find lists of teams and projects, suggested datasets, artwork and promotional materials, and other miscellanea.

Featured Datasets

The Sunlight Foundation

• Open Civic Data API
• Many more at http://sunlightfoundation.com/api/
• Libraries
• Sunlight Ruby Gem
• Sunlight PHP Wrapper
• Sunlight Node.js Wrapper
• python-sunlight

Federal

• http://data.gov
• http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/Default.aspx
• http://www.census.gov/censusexplorer/censusexplorer.html
• Open Congress

New York State

• Open Legislation API
• See Through NY
• NYS Election Data
• NY Open Gov
• NYS GIS Clearing House
• Open New York

City of Rochester

• City of Rochester Neighborhood Data Map
  • RHoK The Hood
• ACT Rochester

Onondaga County

• Onondaga County 911 Feed

Hacks/Hackers ROC

• Monroe County 911 Safety Feed
  • Source Data
  • API Docs
• NYS Violent and Disruptive Incidents Report (VADIR) API
  • Web API Docs
  • Python Lib
• Onondaga County Violent Crimes Listing
  • API Docs
• EPA UV Index Predictions 2013 (Partial)
  • Source
  • API
    • http://mycodespace.net/projects/epauvindex/api/getstate.php?date=2014-02-18&hour=1&state=NY
• Federal Budget Data
• COMIDA Meeting Minutes Indexer
  • COMIDA Home Page
  • Search API
    • http://comida.mycodespace.net/search.json?phrase=moore
• http://monroeminutes.org
  • Source Code
• Various Helpful NY State Geo Files
• Traffairious
  • Source Code and Data

Random

• Phase of the Moon
• WUnderground KROC Weather
  • Format: http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KROC/{0}/{1}/{2}/CustomHistory.html?dayend={3}&monthend={4}&yearend={5}&format=1
    • {0},{1},{2} - Start Year, Month, Day
    • {3},{4},{5} - end Day, Month, Year
    • Note: only returns 11 months of data

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