Civic data is in high demand these days espcially election data and finding that information nationally or locally can be problematic for constiuents looking for public data.In my case, I was looking for city council represntatives for a project, NYC offers a decent varierty datasets and API’s but I wondered what about the rest of the country?
So below you will find a collection of public datasets from the east to the west coasts and as much as I could find in between.
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U.S. City Open Data Census
This site provides an overview of the degree of openness of certain key datasets in cities across the country.
State: National
Datasets: Municipal, Various datasets
Fee: Free
Website: http://us-cities.survey.okfn.org/
Datasets link: http://us-cities.survey.okfn.org/
