DC Government Sets its Data Free

July 19, 2006

Kudos to Dan Thomas, a director in Washingon’s Office of the CTO.  This month the DC City government launched DCStat, a service that offers developers access to operational data from a variety of city agencies in several XML formats, including RSS and Atom.  Several weeks ago I said that governments and nonprofits needed to embrace open API access to their data. Its great to see progress in that direction.

Innovators are indeed already starting to work with the new data. Check out CityStat.org, a map-based visualization of DC City information covering:

Crimes
Overdue Open service requests
Overdue Closed service requests
Service requests assigned to the Department of Public Works
Service requests assigned to the Department of Transportation
Other service requests

 Congratulations to Dan and to the CityStat.org team (who’s blog you can catch up on here)

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  1. Thanks for mentioning us. Actually, we are working on the new release. It will be more data-centric rather than map-centric, so data itself will be more accessible for the citizens.

    Comment by Dmitry Kachaev (citystat.org team) — July 20, 2006 @ 4:52 pm

  2. You’re welcome - keep up the good work!

    Comment by Administrator — July 20, 2006 @ 7:03 pm

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