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Maksim Pecherskiy
Mar 13, 2018

Netlify Site of the Week

By: Sydney Yockey, on Aug 23, 2017

As you know by now, our Open Data Portal is hard at work keeping San Diego’s data accessible and up-to-date. As we strive to keep San Diego at the forefront of SmartCity technology, more citizens and city officials continue…

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Maksim Pecherskiy
Mar 13, 2018

A few updates to StreetsSD

Hey there everyone! For all the fans of StreetsSD we have some great news!

We recently completed a small sprint and made a few fixes and improvements.

We love listening to our users, and one of the most requested features has been…

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Maksim Pecherskiy
Mar 13, 2018

City Streetlights Get Smart

by: Lorie Cosio Azar

The Energy & Sustainability Division within the Environmental Services Department has been upgrading City streetlights to SMART adaptive control LED lighting systems.

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Maksim Pecherskiy
Mar 13, 2018

San Diego’s Open Data Portal Video

by: Sydney Yockey

The Data & Analytics program aims to empower both officials and residents with easy access to San Diego’s data. But if people don’t know about the portal, they won’t be able to build apps, hold the City accountable, or make…

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Maksim Pecherskiy
Mar 13, 2018

Solar Permits Prediction

by: Randy Askin

The 2017 GE Minds & Machines conference featured an “Appathon” where teams were challenged to come up with a working application in a day and a half. The challenge theme was all about decarbonization, decentralization, and digitization in the…

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Andrell Bower
Jan 17, 2018

Remembering Arnaud Vedy

If you’ve paid much attention to smart city or open data or data science in San Diego local government, you probably ran across Arnuad Vedy.

Arnaud was the City of San Diego’s first data scientist. He joined the Data & Analytics team in October 2016, and right…

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Andrell Bower
Jan 8, 2018

Using spatial data and Mapshaper to answer questions

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Andrell Bower
Jan 2, 2018

What to do with GIS files

Open a GIS file online, in a desktop program, or with Python

Most of the spatial data on our open data portal is available as a shapefile (.shp) — a GIS vector data format developed by Esri. Unlike tabular data (.csv…

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Andrell Bower
Nov 30, 2017

Geo data: up-to-date and in multiple formats

We have pbf, topojson, and geojson for all your GIS needs

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Andrell Bower
Nov 30, 2017

A better open data portal

We are excited — and somewhat exhausted — to present to San Diegans a new and improved Open Data portal today.

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