Data sets to request. If you know of any of this data already available somewhere, please provide a link.
If you've requested the data set, add a note with your name and the gov office it was requested from.
bridge, traffic, route data
-Data that would allow us, given a closure, determine a list of alternate routes and travel impact time... base route data via DOT, can we get at the realtime traffic via 3rd party API?
- geography.wa.gov - existing DOT datasets
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh441725 - bing maps provides some traffic data
-Listing of local businesses and businesses on affected routes - hours and services, background, etc - something to help enable cash-mobbing businesses that might otherwise go out of business as a result. Again, this might be more "googly" data than state/city data.
city robots
drones - patrolling data, where will the drones be deployed?
robot deployment data, where, how often, why
occupy protests
- where were arrests made
- past protest arrests data
bus routes
- alerts when there are proposals, changes, and meetings where you can voice your concerns / questions / ideas
- weather, other route change alerts
Locations of traffic collisions
to enable something like http://chi.streetsblog.org/2013/03/21/help-make-the-chicago-crash-browser-an-even-better-tool-for-change/
Roads under construction
Neighborhood events
like block watches, community meetings about transit lines, or crime, or libraries, or P-patches, or schools.
Pedestrian route information with accessibility information (curb cuts, tactile surfaces,etc.) so the data could be entered into OpenStreetMaps (OSM) and walking routes could be generated. (See wheelmap.org for inspiration -- folks in Germany have some good information entered re: accessibility)
- SDOT had a 'Sidewalk Asset and Curb Cut Inventory' done in 2007 as part of the City of Seattle Pedestrian Program (this is the PDF about it: http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/docs/pmp/Sidewalk%20&%20Curb%20Ramp%20Inventory%20Description.pdf ). Getting the updated information for this would be a great start
- what other accessibility information would be helpful (in addition to curb cuts and other sidewalk information)?
- who is the 'owner' of the data in Seattle? Are departments other than SDOT invovled (utilities, or planning, perhaps?)
- how to get this information up on Data.Seattle.Gov and ensure that it's updated on a reasonable schedule?
We can use the city's list of services as inspiration.