bcoppersmith/lacity-citation-parser

A simple script to parse parking citation data from the City of Los Angeles

lacity-citation-parser

A simple script to parse parking citation data from the City of Los Angeles and transform it into a more usable format by adding translating geocodes, cleaning/standardizing time/money fields, and adding in neighborhood context.

The geo transform parts are cribbed from CMBleakley's parser (https://github.com/CMBleakley/citation-formatter)

Usage

Do this:

python parking_parser.py \
  --citations [csv of ticket data] \
  --neighborhoods [geojson of LA Time neighborhood polygons] \
  --meters [geojson of LA City meter zones]

or

python parking_parser.py --help

Where to get the Data

• City of LA Parking Tickets: https://data.lacity.org/A-Well-Run-City/Parking-Citations/wjz9-h9np
• City of LA Meter Zones: http://geohub.lacity.org/datasets/71c26db1ad614faab1047cc8c3686ece_28
• LA Times Neighborhood Polygons: http://boundaries.latimes.com/sets/

Sample Viz:

Here's a blog post that uses this data (and CartoDB): https://ben-coppersmith.cartodb.com/viz/96aab120-06ff-11e5-a99e-0e018d66dc29/public_map