About this Project

General information on APIs and aims of the project

Check out the Map and Stats pages for more in-depth information !

Open Data Philly

OpenDataPhilly is a catalog of open data in the Philadelphia region. In addition to being the official open data repository for the City, it includes data sets from many organizations in the region.

We used the Shooting Incidents API, a public SQL Carto database API that is kept up to date by the municipality of the City of Philadelphia. You can find the Shooting Incidents API here: https://www.opendataphilly.org/dataset/shooting-victims/resource/af2a6d15-234e-44de-83c7-dd23668ee496

Leaflet & OpenStreetMap

Leaflet is a lightweight JavaScript library for interactive maps, most notable OpenStreetMap. OpenStreetMap is an open-source wiki API which contains all geographical information to display maps.

We used the Leaflet & OpenStreetMap to display our map and display our data in a geojson format. We had to convert our own mapped out coordinates of each neighborhood into a SQL Query to retrieve data from the database. You can find the Leaflet API here: https://leafletjs.com/