Projects and Resources

Here is a list of items that we are currently working on and resources that we’ve created and/or curated. If you use any of these resources for a citizen-driven project or want help in that regard, please contact us.

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Projects

Open Data

Creation of open data policies in Albemarle and Charlottesville City
City of Charlottesville Budget Visualization (JSON and CSV available)
Charlottesville compost pilot program data tracking (JSON available)
Participate in the City of Charlottesville Open Data Advisory Group
Hold workshops and classes on open data (Open Data Deep Dives, Bootcamp)
Downtown Mall Vacancy data (CSV available) – (no longer updated)
Creating a more searchable, open repository for council minutes that includes recent sessions (no longer updated)

Internet of Things

In order to support open data, data-driven decision making, and citizen led technology innovation, Smart Cville is working on the deployment of a citywide Internet of Things network.

Civic Innovation Advocacy and Leadership

Civic Innovation Day
Virginia School Discipline Project and other Project Teams
Tech in the Neighborhood Survey
Charlottesville composting program – City Market promotional video

Projects highlighting use of open data

Cville Bike Rack Finder
City of Charlottesville Budget Visualization – we also support Albemarle, Lexington, and Warrenton’s budget visualizations
2017 Central Virginia Election Results (Charlottesville City, Albemarle, and more)
Downtown Mall Vacancy Map Animation
Charlottesville compost pilot program data tracking (JSON available)
Automated elections results page – 2015 Democratic primary
Intensity maps from 2015 Democratic primary

Smart Cville Resources

Click for more info. Feel free to use, reuse, modify.

City of Charlottesville Procurement Alerts

Charlottesville City Procurement Alerts. Get instantly notified when new projects are listed or current projects are updated.

Albemarle County Procurement Alerts

Albemarle County Procurement Alerts. Get instantly notified when new projects are listed or current projects are updated.

City of Charlottesville Budget Visualization

Charlottesville Budget Visualization. Includes open data – JSON and CSV

Charlottesville Voting Precincts KML file

Charlottesville Voting Precincts KML file (Google friendly) – converted from GIS data from City of Charlottesville

Virginia 5th Congressional District Precincts KML file

Virginia 5th Congressional District Precincts KML file (Google friendly) – created from statewide data published on Github

Charlottesville Neighborhood and Planning Districts KML file

Charlottesville Neighborhood and Planning Districts KML file (Google friendly) – converted from GIS data from City of Charlottesville.

Charlottesville Downtown Mall KML file

Charlottesville Downtown Mall KML file (Google friendly) – converted from GIS data from City of Charlottesville

Charlottesville Vacancy Rate Study Areas KML file

Charlottesville Vacancy Rate Study Areas KML file (Google friendly) – created by Smart Cville

Albemarle Voting Precincts KML file

Albemarle Voting Precincts KML file (Google friendly) – converted from GIS data from Albemarle County

Previous Albemarle Voting Precincts 2003-2011 KML file

Previous Albemarle Voting Precincts 2003-2011 KML file (Google friendly) – converted from GIS data from Albemarle County

Searchable Charlottesville City Council Minutes

Searchable Charlottesville City Council Minutes via SayIt

Compost Collection Open Data - JSON

Compost Collection Open Data – JSON. See also our Google Sheets page

Composting Promotional video

Charlottesville drop-off composting program – City Market promotional video

Smart Cville works above are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. If you have any questions about using these resources please let us know. Basically… Use them and share alike!

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External resources

Reuse policy depends on external site.

Albemarle Charlottesville Fire Rescue data

Great visualization of Fire-Rescue data including JSON feed output (Github – Demo) – give it a chance to load. Via Michael Holroyd/Central Virginia Javascript Enthusiasts

Virginia Department of Elections

Virginia Department of Elections – each results page has a JSON link for retrieving election results data. We used it to create an automatically updating post for the 2015 Democratic primary.

Local government GIS data

Charlottesville GIS – Albemarle GIS

City of Charlottesville City Council Minutes

City of Charlottesville City Council Minutes (through 2013, for 2014-2015 see our resource above)

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