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Missing: BTS Catalog! #1

Closed ungoldman closed 9 years ago

ungoldman commented 9 years ago

The link to the Bureau of Technology Services data catalog is dead (was http://www.portlandoregon.gov/bts/article/268487). I haven't been able to find the catalog anywhere else... anyone seen it or know anything about it?

/cc @pdxmele @fardog @elauervose @bcomnes @anomalily @chrissm07

(Ran into this trying to track down as many housing data sources as possible for http://github.com/codeforportland/housing)

ungoldman commented 9 years ago

Update: @Caged found this issue a while back (last September!) and never got a response from Ben Berry (PDX CTO) https://twitter.com/Caged/status/569648204112797696

caged commented 9 years ago

Pure speculation, but I fear they've rolled it all into civicapps, which unfortunately, is cumbersome and buggy and a bit of a ghost town compared to its enthusiastic launch days. Most of the data can be found directly through the FTP site at ftp://ftp02.portlandoregon.gov/CivicApps/. I also maintain a visual index of many of the same datasets here: https://github.com/caged/portland-atlas. Finally, there is a data index on portlandmaps.com, but it's the metadata-only with no direct links to the dataset (you have to hunt around for it).

ksmpdx commented 9 years ago

Believe your speculation is correct. We (City of Portland) rolled that data into civicapps a while back. Good news is that we are working on a new version that will hopefully be less cumbersome, support multiple formats and apis, etc. Goal is to follow with a renewed push to open up a lot more of the data you see on the portlandmaps metadata page, as well as other stuff. Apologies for the interim hassles. Trying to kick the ghosts out and bring some life back in. Stay tuned.

ungoldman commented 9 years ago

Thanks @ksmpdx. We (@CodeForPortland) are very interested in helping with any piece of the puzzle (for free). Feel free to reach out anytime -- ungoldman@gmail.com