For all of you who can't get enough tidbits about parking enforcement, vector control, and stoplight resynchronization, I'm pleased to tell you that the
DC Service Requests feed has come back online after a short hiatus. (And all those parking enforcement entries should serve as fair warning to incoming
DOT staffers who are thinking "Oh, I'll just park on the side streets.")
In additional data feed news, I've upgraded the
Building Permits feed into an home-brewed hybrid--not knowing whether DC ever plans to add the pending applications to the RSS feed, I decided to take matters into my own hands and expand the city's
daily RSS feed of approved permits and with records on new-but-not-yet-approved applications that I'm scraping from
DCRA's Building Permit Status database. The pending applications contain almost no information other than the address and date, but it's better than nothing.