I like SF's. You can plot recent crime and stuff. https://data.sfgov.org/browse?tags=crime+reports
City of Boulder Open Data
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Re: City of Boulder Open Data
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's your point? Denver is a massive sprawling metro.
Denver is in a different county altogether. There's a county in between Boulder and Denver counties, saying nothing of them being the same city.
Brooklyn and Manhattan are in different counties too.
Ask yourself questions like what airport do you fly to and where would you take your kids to the children’s museum if you lived there and you’ll realize what city Boulder is a part of.
Re: City of Boulder Open Data
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's your point? Denver is a massive sprawling metro.
There's still a lot of open space between Boulder and the surrounding cities. I'd argue Denver ends in that direction at Broomfield.
From my limited perspective there isn't much space.
I'm a bit of a stranger to the area- right now I am in a Starbucks in (I think?) Boulder. But I came out to work as a tech with an audio company I contract for to do concerts up at some ski resort. And I am sleeping in my truck front of the Warehouse in Broomfield. But the guy who hires me has a house in Boulder where he keeps a lot of our equipment... and I am often not super clear about when I am just crossing a large green space and when I am crossing into different cities.
So you are probably right, but that's not how I've been experiencing this over the last summer's worth of gigs.
Of course, to me the drive from Boulder to FoCo seems like one continuous city.
Contextually, it might be the fact that I come out for work from Durango, and crossing the san luis valley is what "open space" looks like to me.
So maybe I'm just not sufficiently calibrated for the city yet.
Re: City of Boulder Open Data
#34is this associated with vehicle tracking by license plate, 24x7x365, by any chance? In San Diego County it is, same vendors most likely.
Re: City of Boulder Open Data
#35Just be VERY careful when using any of these open data sets. Datasets will undoubtedly be filtered by some unwritten criteria. It's best to use these datasets as a sanity check for some things, with follow-up FOIA requests for the serious work. And even that will be filled with similar filtering. Source: spent the last ten years working with open data and FOIA in Chicago.
Also, here's a tweet-fitting one liner I wrote that downloads all Socrata CSV datasets across all gov instances:
mkfifo f;echo a>f&xargs -E, -aRe: City of Boulder Open Data
#36These are surprisingly common for local governments these days - this site lists 598 of them: https://dataportals.org/ Here's another collection with more than 3,700: https://data.opendatasoft.com/explore/dataset/open-data-sour...
My local city government also recently published a detailed interactive online GIS map of the city, including all lot boundaries, buried utilities, etc. It's great to feel like the public can easily access what is meant to be public record, rather than relying on for-profit third parties to make it available to us.
I really like the ESRI API's (much faster than Socrata). This is a crazy url, but they do allow for different SQL operations (including spatial operations) right in the API. Here is top 10 crime street segments in Raleigh for example:
https://services.arcgis.com/v400IkDOw1ad7Yad/ArcGIS/rest/ser...
If you go to https://services.arcgis.com/v400IkDOw1ad7Yad/ArcGIS/rest/ser... you can putz around in the query engine to figure out the API strings (easier than reading the ESRI docs anyway!)
Re: City of Boulder Open Data
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not a small town, but rather a suburb of Denver.
It's 25 miles away from Denver.
Boulder probably has enough of a unique character that thinking of it as its own thing rather than just a commuter suburb is probably reasonable. But there are certainly places within 25+ miles of Boston, say, that are reasonably described as suburbs and probably exurbs out to about 50 miles. (It's how ESRI would generally describe them.)
It sort of depends. To use another Boston area example, no one would reasonably consider Portsmouth or Nashua in NH as suburbs even though people will go into Boston for a night's entertainment and probably fly out of the airport.
Re: City of Boulder Open Data
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Been there. It's very expensive and crowded but it's really nice being like 15 minutes from some of the nicest hiking trails in the country.
>and crowded Oh yes, with the 5 story limit of the height of the buildings - and a year over year growth of 1%. Super crowded.
Wouldn't 5 story limit's on buildings just make it feel more crowded by constraining the growth?
Re: City of Boulder Open Data
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Been there. It's very expensive and crowded but it's really nice being like 15 minutes from some of the nicest hiking trails in the country.
I live in Boulder. It's certainly expensive, although more reasonable than some of the other popular tech cities. I honestly don't think of it as crowded though. There's tourist spots to avoid, but plenty of open space for all.
I found it crowded. I guess it depends on where you're coming from.
On weekends, It takes 3 hours to make (what should be) a 1 hour drive at 5AM going to the mountain to ski, very difficult to find parking at most trailheads, camping spots are pretty much swamped on the peak to peak...etc. etc.
But I guess if you're coming from L.A. or somewhere that kind of traffic isn't too bad lol
And that's not all Boulder traffic, I'm sure there's a lot of Denver and surrounding city population crush, was just miserable on the weekends I found.
Re: City of Boulder Open Data
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes but it's Boulder, the promised land, according to here
Too commercial, too many rich brats, expensive, nice access to nature but too crowded. The western side of the Rockies are superior imo.
Nothing is more Boulder than moving to a college town and complaining about college kids.