This page contains relevant resources for finding data about Seattle, and tips on performing spatial analysis with those data.
Notes regarding the Bus Stops and POIs Map can be found here.
Additional (maybe helpful) notes on using CartoDB can be found here
- Cascadia Users of Geospatial Open Source (CUGOS)
- Maptime Seattle
- Seattle OpenStreetMap (OSM)
- Open Seattle
The following websites use data from http://data.seattle.gov
- Open Budget Seattle
- Capital Projects Explorer
- Performance Seattle
- SPD Crime Maps
- Access Map Seattle (Hackathon Winner)
- Real Time 911
- Police Deparment Police Report Incident
- Building Permits
- Public Outreach and Engagement Events
- Building Code Violations
- Neighborhoods
- Seattle Communities Online Inventory
- Seattle Cultural Space Inventory
- My Neighborhood Map (POIS)
- Landmarks Dataset
- coffee part1
- Viewpoints
- Heritage Trees
- Mapzen Metro Extracts
- NOTE: Data for South Seattle have been subset and are available in this repository.
- SQL and PostGIS in CartoDB: A series of three small exercises designed introduce CartoDB SQL Analysis.
- CartoDB Map Academy: A larger series of online exercises covering many different aspects of CartoDB from cartographic styling, basic web mapping, and making your own maps/tools using CartoDBs APIs.
- Boundless Introduction to PostGIS Workshop: A very comprehensive set of exercises covering not only the use of SQL to answer questions using PostGIS, but also instructions on how to administer the Postgres database itself.
- PostGIS Official Reference: The official postgis docs. Go here to learn how any individual PostGIS function works.