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norcal.pub
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I am building a new kind of newspaper and so have been collecting and studying old newspapers. Here is one from my collection, an issue of the Columbian Centinel (Boston), from 1795, when George Washington was president. The classifieds make me laugh. Lots of Schooners for sale.
Yes! Planning to launch that very soon. I was going to call it "The Norcal Pub" (https://github.com/breck7/norcal.pub) but got a better name for it. Just waiting for that transfer to go through
sf-tree-history
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Open Data Is Dead
I think this headline was poorly chosen.
When I see the term "Open Data" I instantly think of open data portals - mostly run by governments around the world. These things have never been healthier: ten years ago they hardly existed, today you can get civic data from local governments all over the place (last time I saw an attempt to count there were over 4,000 of these portals, and that was a few years ago).
My favourite example is still this CSV of all 190,000+ trees in San Francisco, which is updated most business days with details of the latest tree changes: https://data.sfgov.org/City-Infrastructure/Street-Tree-List/... - I track changes to it here: https://github.com/simonw/sf-tree-history/
This article is about something different: it's about what I guess you could call the "Open APIs" movement. Back in the days of Web 2.0 every service was launching an open API, hoping to harness developer attention to help make the platforms more sticky. Facebook and Twitter both did incredibly well out of this strategy, at least at first.
THOSE APIs are mostly on the way out now. Companies realized that giving away their data for free has a lot of disadvantages.
Open Data is doing great. Open APIs are not.
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London Street Trees
I've been Git scraping the San Francisco version of this for a few years now.
My https://github.com/simonw/sf-tree-history repo now has 444 commits (most recent one was just 4 days ago) tracking every change that's been made to https://data.sfgov.org/City-Infrastructure/Street-Tree-List/... since March 2019.
I haven't yet done anything with this data, but there is so much potential for visualizations and other fun stuff with it. If anyone wants to have a go please be my guest!
Wrote more about this project here: https://simonwillison.net/2019/Mar/13/tree-history/
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Looking for a dataset that is updated once a day ( not : stocks,crypto,weather)
Trees in San Francisco: https://github.com/simonw/sf-tree-history
What are some alternatives?
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