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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