Where are the Loud Neighbors? Late Night Noise in Sacramento, CA
The Sacramento Police Department makes their dispatch database publicly available via monthly text files. These files are exported from Sacramento’s Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system, which supports police dispatch and response functions in their 911 center. These files include information about each dispatch, including details like date and time, type of call – from homicides [...]
Harnessing the power of City data with SpatialKey
Cities are opening up and providing access to data as part of an initiative to improve the accessibility, transparency, and accountability of City governments. Several cities, including New York City, Washington DC and San Francisco, are among a few to lead this initiative in an effort to serve the public by creating “data mines” of [...]
International Geocoding
Since the initial Beta release of SpatialKey in March we have received many requests for International geocoding. If you are not familiar with the term, geocoding it is the process of converting street addresses, or zip codes (postal codes) to geographic coordinates often expressed as latitude and longitude. With SpatialKey we are using TIGER (Topologically [...]
SpatialKey Data Import API
Getting data into SpatialKey has always been simple but until now there was no way to programatically automate imports and updates of your datasets. Today we introduced the SpatialKey Data Import API (DIAPI). The DataImport API allows developers to utilize a variety of platforms and programming languages (like Java, ColdFusion, .Net, [...]
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