We love maps at Bath: Hacked. From our historical maps to our visualisations in CartoDB we often find ourselves working with maps to explore new ways to visualise data about the local area. To make this even easier we’ve created a new open……
Open Data Aha!
Signposting to open data being used in 'real life'
Tag: CartoDB
Announcing our new open geographical data collection
Posted in Benefits of open data, Posts from feeds, Smart communities, Visualising data Tagged with: Bath Hacked, CartoDB, data visualisation, geospatial, mapping, open data
Spin Up the TIGER Geocoder, Quickly
Geocoding is expensive. Translating ‘520 Broadway, NYC’ into ‘40.7226687,-73.9987579′ comes with caveats. You’re up against network endpoints, daily request limits, licensing, and potentially a large bit of cash, depending on your needs. When your collection of addresses is on the…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Posts from feeds, Visualising data Tagged with: CartoDB, Enigma, geocoder, geocoding, Jeremy Krinsley, Mapzen, open data, open source, PostGIS, TIGER
Visualising data without code
At Bath: Hacked we have lots of data about Bath & North East Somerset. In fact, we have oodles of data; all lovingly gathered, curated & made available on our wonderful Socrata platform for anyone to use. In this post…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Smart communities, Visualising data Tagged with: Bath Hacked, CartoDB, Mark Owen, Socrata, Video