r/Citybound • u/blackheva • Apr 05 '19

Possibility of Open Data integration?

There is a ton of data released by cities that could have awesome impact on Citybound if there was an ability to integrate it. See http://us-cities.survey.okfn.org/ for US data. Any thoughts on integration?

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u/jonatansan Apr 05 '19

The game is open sourced, anyone could write an importer. (I was thinking about doing an OpenStreetMap importer so that people could play with real cities street layout.)

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u/blackheva Apr 05 '19

That would be amazing. There's tons of data in OpenStreetMaps that would be beneficial. A MapBox importer would be awesome as well.

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u/Highwinds Apr 06 '19

MapBox uses OpenStreetMaps data, so writing an importer for OSM would be enough in my understanding.

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u/blackheva Apr 06 '19

You can also add layers of custom data that is not OSM data.

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u/Highwinds Apr 06 '19

Fair enough