Useful Links
The page is intended to help you either use data or find additional data sets not included in OpenDataPhilly.
Software for Using Data
- RSS Readers - FeedReader
- CSV, XLS – Excel, OpenOffice Calc, Tableau
- Shapefiles and Geodatabases
- Esri ArcGIS Explorer
- Esri ArcView - available at little or no cost for non-profit organization from Esri and TechSoup
- uDig
- KML – GoogleEarth, ArcGIS Explorer
- Google Refine - Useful for cleaning data
- Processing - data visualization library
Other Municipal Open Data Catalogs
The City of Philadelphia is not alone in making government data more available to citizens. These are a few of the many cities that have open data catalogs online:
- Baltimore
- London
- New York City
- San Francisco
- Seattle
- Toronto
- Washington DC with API info available at http://api.dc.gov/
Other Public Data Catalogs
We have elected to not include comprehensive state and national data sets that are available through other resources. There are many such catalogs, but a few important ones include:
- PASDA - Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access
- OpenStreetMap
- ArcGIS.com
- Data.gov
- PolicyMap
- GeoData.gov
- USGS Seamless Data Warehouse
- U.S. Census Bureau American FactFinder
- World Bank
Open Data Policies
We believe that better data about our society and planet will help us both make better decisions and more effectively engage in our communities. These are some of the organizations that promote open data policies and we encourage you to support them: