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All the current trees in Barcelona

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Re: All the current trees in Barcelona

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50 years from now, will cities provide "APIs" for residents to query & access city data and services? will i be able to "REST" some "JSON" telling me when the tree around the corner that my dog likes best was last watered? i would love this.

note: "quotes" used because who knows what interfaces will be the saveurs du jour, then.

Re: All the current trees in Barcelona

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50 years from now, will cities provide "APIs" for residents to query & access city data and services? will i be able to "REST" some "JSON" telling me when the tree around the corner that my dog likes best was last watered? i would love this. note: "quotes" used because who knows what interfaces will be the saveurs du jour, then.

50 years? Try Iceland, right now. http://docs.apis.is/ APIs for gas stations, concerts, TV schedules, school syllabi...

Re: All the current trees in Barcelona

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50 years from now, will cities provide "APIs" for residents to query & access city data and services? will i be able to "REST" some "JSON" telling me when the tree around the corner that my dog likes best was last watered? i would love this. note: "quotes" used because who knows what interfaces will be the saveurs du jour, then.

50 years? Try Iceland, right now. http://docs.apis.is/ APIs for gas stations, concerts, TV schedules, school syllabi...

Thats great, gonna play around with that

Re: All the current trees in Barcelona

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There is an app called Urban Trees (https://urbantrees.app/) based on open data of several cities. With the app you get an AR view of the trees around you, with their labels etc.

They currently have data from Barcelona, Bristol, Clark County, Edmonton, Frankfurt, Las Vegas, London, Melbourne, New York, Paris, Portland, Rostock, San Francisco, Santa Monica, Seattle, Vancouver, Washington DC, Vienna and Zurich.

Re: All the current trees in Barcelona

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50 years from now, will cities provide "APIs" for residents to query & access city data and services? will i be able to "REST" some "JSON" telling me when the tree around the corner that my dog likes best was last watered? i would love this. note: "quotes" used because who knows what interfaces will be the saveurs du jour, then.

50 years? Try Iceland, right now. http://docs.apis.is/ APIs for gas stations, concerts, TV schedules, school syllabi...

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Re: All the current trees in Barcelona

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post #6

There is an app called Urban Trees ( https://urbantrees.app/ ) based on open data of several cities. With the app you get an AR view of the trees around you, with their labels etc. They currently have data from Barcelona, Bristol, Clark County, Edmonton, Frankfurt, Las Vegas, London, Melbourne, New York, Paris, Portland, Rostock, San Francisco, Santa Monica, Seattle, Vancouver, Washington DC, Vienna and Zurich.

Alas, iOS only!

Re: All the current trees in Barcelona

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50 years from now, will cities provide "APIs" for residents to query & access city data and services? will i be able to "REST" some "JSON" telling me when the tree around the corner that my dog likes best was last watered? i would love this. note: "quotes" used because who knows what interfaces will be the saveurs du jour, then.

The average city is swimming in data these days. Many expose it through various APIs. The Socrata platform (disclaimer: I work there) is one example of many.

For instance, here's Edmonton's tree dataset: https://data.edmonton.ca/Environmental-Services/Trees/eecg-f...

API docs are here (there's an API button on the top right of the first linked page that takes you here): https://dev.socrata.com/foundry/data.edmonton.ca/eecg-fc54

Example query - 10 most recently-planted trees bearing edible fruit:

https://data.edmonton.ca/resource/eecg-fc54.json?$query=sele...

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