h4ck3rm1k3 / api.opencivicdata.org

combined API for Open Civic Data

Actual API code is a part of several other projects:

• boundaries - backs GIS portion
• imago - people, bills, events, etc.

To get started:

python scripts/downloads.py                 # downloads shapefiles
# create a postgres database & user and add to a local_settings.py file
./manage.py syncdb
./manage.py migrate
./manage.py loadshapefiles
./manage.py loaddivisions https://raw.github.com/opencivicdata/ocd-division-ids/master/identifiers/country-us.csv
./manage.py loadgeomapping county-13 1980-01-01 https://raw.github.com/opencivicdata/ocd-division-ids/master/mappings/us-census-geoids.csv
./manage.py loadgeomapping place-13 1980-01-01 https://raw.github.com/opencivicdata/ocd-division-ids/master/mappings/us-census-geoids.csv
# also need to load mappings for zctas, cds, sldus, sldls