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City Council Data for New York, NY
New York City Links
- City Website
- City Council Website
- City Council Calendar
- City Council Legislation
- City Council Committees
Introduction
This project provides the City Council Data, Headshots & City Photo for New York, NY ( GeoJSON, JSON, XML, CSV, SQL & YML formats ). See Provided Data below for full list of data in this project.
Completed Tasks
We have completed the following Data Collection for New York, NY. Watch Project to be notified of updates.
- City Council Data Created
- City Photo Created
- Councilor Headshots Created
- Images Uploaded to CDN
- GeoJSON File Created
- Published NPM Package
Developers
Requirements
To run converters, you will need to run the following:
brew install imagemagick
brew install graphicsmagick
Rebuild Data & Assets
The ./city-council
folder is generated by the contents in the ./source
folder. See the ./source/README.md file for requirements for the core assets.
To update the data & assets in the city-council
folder, you will need to run the following commands:
npm install
npm run -s build
Provided Data
There are currently about 40 pieces of data for each councilor. You can see the full details below.
Expand Details
Parameter | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
state_code |
string | Two Letter State Abbreviation |
state_name |
string | Name of State |
state_slug |
string | Name of State converted to lowercase letters and spaces replaced with dashes |
city_name |
string | Name of City |
city_slug |
string | Name of City converted to lowercase letters and spaces replaced with dashes |
city_population |
string | Population of City |
city_background_url |
string | Creative Commons Image you can use for City |
city_government_url |
string | Official Website of City |
city_council_url |
string | City Council Official Website |
city_council_council_calendar_url |
string | City Council Calendar Website |
city_council_legislation_url |
string | City Council Legislation Website |
city_council_committees_url |
string | City Council Committee Website |
city_latitude |
float | GPS Latitude of City |
city_longitude |
float | GPS Longitude of City |
district |
mixed | District of Councilor ( not always available ) |
at_large |
enum | Councilor is considered At-Large |
name |
string | Full Name of Councilor |
name_slug |
string | Full Name of Councilor converted to lowercase letters and spaces replaced with dashes |
first_name |
string | First Name of Councilor |
last_name |
string | Last Name of Councilor |
gender |
enum | Gender of Councilor |
ethnicity |
enum | Ethnicity of Councilor |
date_of_birth |
date | Date of Birth of Councilor |
entered_office |
date | Date Councilor First Entered Office |
term_end |
date | Date Councilor's Current Term Ends |
title |
enum | Title of Councilor |
party |
enum | Political Party of Councilor |
email |
string | Work Email Address of Councilor |
phone |
string | Work Phone Number of Councilor |
address_complete |
string | Work Mailing Address of Councilor |
address_number |
number | Mailing Address Number |
address_prefix |
string | Mailing Address Prefix |
address_street |
string | Mailing Address Street |
address_sec_unit_type |
string | Mailing Address Section Unit Type |
address_sec_unit_num |
number | Mailing Address Section Unit Number |
address_city |
string | Mailing Address City |
address_state |
string | Mailing Address State |
address_zipcode |
string | Mailing Address zipcode |
address_type |
string | Mailing Address Type |
twitter_handle |
string | Twitter Handle of Councilor ( not always available ) |
twitter_url |
string | Twitter URL of Councilor ( not always available ) |
facebook_url |
string | Facebook URL of Councilor ( not always available ) |
photo_url |
string | Photo URL of Councilor ( not always available ) |
city_background_url
is available in the following sizes: 640x360, 960x540, 1280x720 & 1920x1080 ( defaults to 1280x720 )city_photo_url
is available in the following sizes: 64x64, 128x128, 256x256, 512x512 & 1024x1024 ( defaults to 512x512 )