Tag Open Data
Getting the Microsoft US Building Footprints into ArcGIS Pro
Last week, Microsoft Released 125 million Building Footprints in the US as Open Data. This is a pretty exciting release of open geospatial data. Let’s convert the GeoJSON file to Esri JSON features before importing into ArcGIS Pro.
St. Louis Lambert Airport Passenger Data
Our city’s airport posts data on how many passengers travel through the airport each month and year. It’s posted as a PDF but the data is hard to use in that format. I grabbed the data and put it into a better format.
Open Data in University City
I live in University City, MO, which has no crime. Don’t believe me? This map says so.
Share that Data!
GitHub recently released a landing page to help governmental organizations get their data into the GitHub cloud. I am very excited to see more government organizations use GitHub to share, collaborate, and publish our data. Here’s an example of the “open” data that is available in my neck of the woods. Having crime data published in a PDF, grouped by area of city (so you have to collate multiple PDFs to see the entire city) is simply pathetic.