Civic datasets.txt

aerial_photos
airports
animals
bicycle_lanes
bicycle_parking
blocks
bridges
buildings
business_associations
bus_routes
bus_stops
catch_basins
census_blocks
census_block_groups
census_tracts
cities
city_blocks
city_council_districts
city_halls
community_centers
commuter_rail
conservation_districts
construction_areas
contaminated_site
contours
counties
curb_ramps
current_harbor_anno
development_opportunity_areas
districts
districts
district_yards
evac_routes
fire_boxes
fire_dept
fire_districts
fire_hydrant
fire_sectors
fire_stations
flood_zones
food_carts
freeway
freight_districts
freight_facilities
garbage_truck_routes
guard_rails
harbor_channel_pier
health_centers
homebuyer_opportunity_area
hospital
hospitals
housing_inspection_districts
hydrography
landmark_districts
landuse
leaf_pickup_locations
libraries
mailing_neighborhoods
main_street_districts
major_roads
neighborhoods
nhood_emergency_cntrs
non_public_schools
open_space
overpass
parcels, taxlots, tax lots
parking
parking_meters
parkride_locations
parks
pavement_moratorium
pedestrian_districts
points_of_interest
police_dept
police_districts
police_sectors
polling_locations
precincts
public_art
public_libraries
public_pools
public_schools, public_school_facilities
railroads
recycling_locations
restaurants
road_sidewalk
schools
senate_districts
shelters
sidewalks
slip_lining
snow_districts
snow_farms
snow_ice_routes
snow_lots
snow_parking
snow_routes
storefront_improvement_areas
street_centerlines
street_sweeping_routes
street_trees
subdistricts
topography
tourist_trails
towns
traffic_calming
traffic_signals
trails
transit_district
transit_stations
trees
tunnels
urban_renewal_areas
valve_chamber
vegetation
wards
water_main
water_network_junctions
water_not_plotted
water_sampling_station
water_service
zipcodes

OK... so as a GIS guy I am not sure I see schema? I guess what I don't understand is are we mapping singular locations? Are we mapping polygons? Are we mapping something else. I guess what I am getting at here is what is the expectation? Is there one?

This list isn't necessarily map based. Tight now it is just a bunch of top level unique categories. If we can try to encompass a majority of the different 'types' of civic data in this list then we can move forward by getting into more specific data types and mapping information.

So, the idea of this list is to catagorize every possible civic object?

Yep! The hard part is balancing how high level versus how specific the categories will be, e.g. traffic_calming is a high level category that encompasses all of the different types of speedbumps, raised sidewalks and other things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_calming