Questions tagged [city]
For questions related to cities and similar municipal levels of government.
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Count number of pedestrians on an arbitrary street
I'm looking for data that allow me to estimate the number of pedestrians and/or cars passing by on a certain part of a certain street at a certain time. Any ideas on where and/or how I can get this ...
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Seeking shapefile for project work in India
Can anyone provide the shapefile of KOZHIKODE City (not the district), and the same for BHUJ city as well?
I tried the district file, but I need the city's shapefile, not the entire district.
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Where can I obtain data on Indian GDP by city?
I'm looking for data on GDP by city in India, say for example for the top 60-70 cities. I have looked in the World Bank, UN, IMF, but couldn't find it.
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Where do I find a database of each city in the world and the languages spoken there? (Ex. Barcelona - Catalan, Spanish vs. Madrid - Spanish)
I'm looking to set up a dropdown of languages once the app picks up the city a person is in. Where would I find this database or API?
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Is there a list of all municipalities in the USA with population values as a spreadsheet?
so I am looking for a list of every municipality in the USA in spreadsheet form, or at least that can be easily imported into a spreadsheet. I would like it to include every municipality type in every ...
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Seeking list of all US cities and their latitude and longitude
I am looking for a list of all US cities and their latitude and longitude.
Ideally something free will work but I'm willing to pay for it if its not too expensive and its complete.
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GDP per IP or location
Is it any public database, API where I could download GDP data per location, per city or IP address?
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Trying to find historical building footprints or centroids
I'm currently doing a research project analyzing how cities evolve over time and were wondering if there were any good online databases for finding historical building footprints. I've been looking ...
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earthquake usgs api filter by country
I am trying to get recent earthquake data using https://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/ api.
For example this url (https://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/query?format=geojson&starttime=...
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Postcodes for roads in London
I have asked this on GIS and been referred here
First time asking, couldn't see a starting point to read from. I'm doing a lookup by road name (London) to get the Postcode (first part W1 / WC1H etc), ...
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How to read *_LOW_HN / *_HIGH_HN fields in NY Street Centerline Data?
I've been looking at the NYC Street Centerline (CSCL), in particular number ranges for individual street segments.
Quite a few look like this:
ST_NAME L_LOW_HN L_HIGH_HN R_LOW_HN ...
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Complete Germany city database with cities, villages and regions
I am looking for a very detailed free or not free city database for Germany. I need information like state or village, region, latitude, and longitude, and population. I think Geonames is a bit messy ...
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How to get communes boundaries of Europe?
I am looking for an up-to-date communes administrative boundraries (LAU) of several countries in Europe (France + adjacent countries). I need it to be quite precise (less than 5m), since I intend to ...
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Leipzig Districts and Parts of Districts in GIS-format
For a city of Leipzig (in Germany) I am looking for City Districts and Parts of City Districts in geospatial vector data format, that can be later loaded into GIS software, e.g. shapefiles, KML, ...
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Get random city of any country
I am looking for an public Rest API which I can consume and get random city name at every time.
No inputs (like country). City can be any size, it can be a village, town, city..
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Tallinn APC & AVL data for public transport
I am looking for automatic passenger counts (APC) and automatic vehicle location (AVL) datasets for Tallinn public transportation system. Any ideas where I can find them?
Or if there are no such ...
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Crime Data in Canada
Does anybody have any idea where I might find data regarding crime in Canada or whether or not this data even exists?
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Where can I find city zoning district in Dallas, Texas data?
I need some open data source where I can download zoning areas of Dallas, Texas. I have tried to find it using official city GIS data, using ArcGIS online but not even close to find that.
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Historic spatial extent of Beirut, Lebanon?
I am looking for historic extent data for the city of Beirut, in Lebanon.
I would like to show the growth of the city over time, from 1950 to today. The data are to be used in a web visualisation to ...
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Western Canada ShapeFiles (Meridian, Township, Section and Quarter)?
I want to create a TileGrid Map for Western Canada of the 36 "Townships" (where each "Township" has 16 sections). I want to create grid tiles from ShapeFiles/kml/kmz or any other format file.
I found ...
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City boundary for Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Where can I find data for the boundary of Fort Lauderdale, Florida? I'd like to load the data into carto.com to create a map.
I looked on their gis website, but I couldn't find an outline of the city ...
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How to differentiate between city and non-city in city databases?
I am trying to find a population database of cities of whole world, no towns, no villages, only cities. I tried various data sources discussed here including following Database of cities with ...
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open access database with companies/large employers registered in a given city in US
Is anyone aware of an open access database with companies/large employers registered in a given city in US, specifying registration date (office opening).
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Functional urban areas in the UK
I want to perform an analysis on urban areas in the UK. As, indeed, urban areas can be defined in multiple ways, I would like to rely on some well-accepted definitions and polygons.
I found this EU ...
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Database of bicycle sharing systems
I am looking for a database of bicycle sharing systems. It does not need to be real-time (even though that would be wonderful).
Each entry should ideally have the following:
Name of the system (ex: ...
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Air quality in all cities in the USA
Where can I find information about pollution or air quality by city in U.S.? I would like to the data to be from an official source.
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City car parking dataset in EU (and US)
I want to do a research project about the prediction of car parking occupancy rates and compare different cities in the EU/US.
Are there public datasets that you can recommend?
I found a couple of ...
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Worldwide database of locations (cities)?
It's the first time I post in this community, I hope my question belongs here.
I'm currently developing an app where a user can add a location to his post, just like Instagram does (or Facebook). To ...
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Looking for datasets of complaints/requests filed at municipalities or cities
I'm looking to do some text analysis on complaints or requests filed at cities or municipalities.
The data must have:
type of complaint (e.g. "Noise complaint")
complaint text (e.g.: "The people in ...
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Scanned architectural building plans
I am trying to collect architectural buildings plans for some computer vision project. Many cities publish scanned house plans as a service to the public, but it is not standard and not trivial to ...
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Where can I download a dataset including longitude and latitude coordinates at a city level
I am looking to download a dataset with longitude and latitude coordinates for each city in the world. The systems data I am working with has geo_country (3 three-letter country codes), geo_regions ...
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What are known open data sets for the Smart City domain?
For example, air pollution data, traffic jams data, .. Probably also with spatial and temporal dimensions.
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Geocoding of Chicago crime data
The City of Chicago publishes some rich crime data, available e.g. here:
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/crimes-2001-to-present-398a4
The address of event crime is partly obscured, so as to read ...
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UK Cities and Towns
I've scoured the internet (including stack exchange) and trialled a few datasets but none have suited my needs. I'm after UK town and city names with long/lat positions and populations (so I can style ...
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Dataset of World Cities, Counties, Localities, Provinces, and States? [duplicate]
I have a JSON list of international cities with country, latitude, longtitude, but not the corresponding state or province associated with them.
Is there a free database of cities that include what I ...
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Largest U.S. cities per state in 1950
I am looking for a data set that contains the largest city for every US American state in 1950. The data should contain the city name, the state name, the population and, if possible, longitude and ...
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Data of GDP values of cities in the world
I am looking for a data which lists GDP (gross domestic product) values of all the cities in the world. I already looked at the Wikipedia page List of cities by GDP but the list is too limited for me. ...
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USPS drop box locations in NYC?
I posted this in GIS but was referred here. I'm hoping someone could point me in the right direction...
I'm doing some analysis on the impacts of neighborhood characteristics on physical activity. ...
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List of every city and town in the world?
I was wondering if anyone knows of a downloadable list of all cities and towns in the world.
Can someone suggest a resource that has a comprehensive list city and town names?
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Free Cadastral Map
I'm writing a theoretical paper on landscape planning. I need a cadastral map to illustrate some things. It could be a map of a real city (doesn't matter in which country or state) or a fictional one (...
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City boundaries for Europe
Is there public data of city boundaries for countries in Europe?
I tried using ArcGIS Online search function but could not find anything.
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GPS or Printable map? [closed]
Question for you guys, especially travelers like me do you prefer GPS or printable maps? I don't know but from my latest trip, GPS wasn't much of help. I had to resort to pdf maps from this site http:/...
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Country City Population database
I'm trying to do some research for some people in the SEO and data marketing industry.
I'm flat broke so I don't have money to spend but I would love to find a database that's free that just has the ...
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Laser scans of buildings / cities
I am looking for a point cloud source of laser scanned building. I have found Laser scans of Earth surface, but there is no open archive of scanned cities / buildings. Or is there something?
I dont ...
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Given start & end dates without year, where can I find average daily high & low temperatures for a given city?
I'm looking for a simple site that offers daily high & low temperature averages for a given city. For example, I'd like to get the average high & low temperatures by day for Cabo San Lucas ...
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Fire incidents data
I'm looking for a regularly updated list of urban fire incidents in North America or Western Europe, including:
The date of the incident
Address
The type of the building: residential, business, ...
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US Universities and colleges with city/town state?
Is there any database or list that has the major US universities and colleges with the city/town, state they are located in?
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Historical (pre-war) data on cities and towns in Germany
What I do:
I'm trying to find and merge city-level data from various time periods:
~1900, ~1930 and ~1990. I already have data on election outcomes, and a few related measures.
What's difficult:
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Queryable source of large cities
I'm trying to get a list of major cities in the world: their name, population, and location. I found what looked like a good query on Wikidata, slightly tweaking a built-in query example:
SELECT ...
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Expamples of municipal decisions register published as open data
can anybody give me any examples of municipal decisions register (eg. planned road closures, approval of private use of public spaces, sanctions issued to citizens for not obeying municipal ...
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