StreetsSD

Behind The Scenes

This post originally appeared on the data.sandiego.gov blog.

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…

Using spatial data and Mapshaper to answer questions

Why data automation matters.

For open and not-so-open data portals.

A better open data portal

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

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

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

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…

The building blocks of an Open Data portal

We saved $60k in fees and made our own website with a catalog of government data. Here’s how we did it.

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…