This is a geospatial APIs that will retreive the municipality within Miami-Dade County, given a latitude and a longitude. If no municipality is returned, this means that the latitude and longitude may be in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, an area which provides city services to 2.1 million people so long as the location is within county borders.
This project is a fork of a the US Census Area API, a Code for America project that allows simple geospatial APIs. We installed the repo on heroku, with a ZIPPED_DATA_URL argument of a URL taken directly from Miami-Dade County's ESRI portal.
Shortly after this repo was localized, we were notified that Miami-Dade County offers web services which return metadata - including municipality names - given a particular address in the county. The county web services have some differences compared to this API, including SOAP services, XML formats and X and Y return coordinates rather than latitudes and longitudes. Use the web service that works the best for you!
See the US Census Area API for full installation instructions.
Written by Michal Migurski with
Andy Hull, localized by Ernie Hsiung (c) 2013-2015 Code for America.
See LICENSE for license information.