Code for Seattle

Seattle residents using technology to support civic engagement and address local issues.

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CfS Projects

Take a look at some Seattle-based civic technology projects! Some of these are worked on at Code for Seattle meetups and some are great local examples of civic tech projects.

nwdata.org

A directory of data portals, apps, & other resources related to civic tech in the Pacific Northwest.

Website: http://nwdata.org

Code: https://github.com/sethvincent/nwdata.org

Contributors: Seth Vincent

data resources html css


Duwamish River Cleanup

A community of residents and stakeholders who are monitoring the cleanup of toxic waste in Seattle's Duwamish River.

Website: http://heyduwamish.org

Code: https://github.com/smartercleanup/duwamish

Contributors: Jacob Caggiano Luke Swart


What Do I Do With...? recycling app

Dropoff locator for recyclables and other disposables in King County

Website: www.wdidw.com

Code: https://github.com/audreycarlsen/recycling_app

Contributors: Audrey Carlsen

recycling rails javascript


Seattle in Progress

Website: http://www.seattleinprogress.com

Code: closed source?

Contributors: Ethan Phelps-Goodman


Seattle LocalWiki

Website: http://seattlewiki.net

Code: http://github.com/localwiki/localwiki

Contributors: Seth Vincent


LocalWiki JavaScript client

Use the data from LocalWiki in your JavaScript projects!

Code: https://github.com/codeforseattle/node-localwiki-client

Contributors: Seth Vincent Will Scott

javascript node api


LocalWiki Ruby client

Use the data from LocalWiki in your Ruby projects!

Code: https://github.com/codeforseattle/localwiki_client

Contributors: Brandon Faloona hcanzl Seth Vincent

ruby api


Citizen Input

A crowdsourcing platform for discovering great new candidates for public office and a real-time report of each candidate's relative popularity.

Website: http://www.citizeninput.org/

Code: https://github.com/citizen-input-project

Contributors: Charles Hymes Qays Poonawala

open government transparency django heroku html mobile


Seattle's Heritage Trees

Website: http://tsibley.net/trees/seattle

Code: https://github.com/tsibley/seattle-trees

Contributors: Thomas Sibley


Seattle Miscellaneous Maps

Mix and match maps, census, voting data for city council district demographics or anything else

Website: http://lucasw.github.io/gmap/census.html

Code: https://github.com/lucasw/gis

Contributors: Lucas Walter

python ipython notebook google maps v3 javascript


Political Annotations Chrome Extension

Website: n/a

Code: https://github.com/typpo/political-annotations

Contributors: Ian Webster Alex Miranda

javascript


Seattle GeoJSON datasets

Code: https://github.com/licyeus/seattle-geojson

data json


Seattle One Night Count datasets

Code: https://github.com/licyeus/seattle-homeless-info

data


seattle.io

A guide to Seattle neighborhoods & communities.

Website: http://seattle.io

Code: https://github.com/seattleio

Contributors: Seth Vincent


ActivateHub

Website: http://activatehub.org/

Code: https://github.com/activate/ActivateHub

Contributors: Lindsay Caron


DemocracyLab

Participation environment for users, developers, and supporters of Civic Tech

Website: http://www.democracylab.org

Code: https://github.com/DemocracyLab

Contributors: Mark Frischmuth


Seattle Blogs

Tracking all the blogs and online publications in the Seattle area.

Code: https://github.com/sethvincent/seattle-blogs

Contributors: Seth Vincent

data news javascript


Streetlight Seattle Reporter

Code: https://github.com/jsfrost/StreetlightSeattleReporter

Contributors: Jerry Frost

android


Live Music Project

Website: http://livemusicproject.org

Code: closed source?

Contributors: Shaya


Seattle Open Data Policy proposal

Code: http://bit.ly/SeattleDataPolicy

Contributors: Tre Andrew Candace ...


Seattle Data Inventory

An inventory of the most interesting data available from data.seattle.gov

Code: http://seattlewiki.net/Open_Data_Resources

Contributors: Shelly Farnham

data


Realtime Transit Data

Website: http://domoritz.de/live-bus-seattle/#12/47.6210/-122.3328

Code: https://github.com/domoritz/live-bus-seattle


Stolen Bike App

Website: http://bike.jumis.com/index.html

Code: https://github.com/lcdvirgo/stolenbikesSEA

node


Seattle Icons

Website: seattleicons.org

Code: http://github.com/codeforseattle/seattle-icons

design


Seattle Metro Cuts

Website: codeforseattle.org/metrocuts

Code: http://github.com/codeforseattle/metrocuts


Washington Homelessness

Goal is to provide a dashboard to access & visualize open data for homelessness

Website: livingwa.github.io

Code: https://github.com/livingwa

homelessness mapping d3js


Deglassified

A map of businesses with policies against Google Glass.

Website: deglassified.com

Code: https://github.com/licyeus/deglassified

Contributors: Andrew Sullivan Andre Levi

google glass privacy map ruby rails javascript angularjs


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