Boston area data feeds

Consumer

• Boston.com RSS feeds

• Flickr

  • data
  • API docs
    • flickr.photos.geo.photosForLocation
  • Web page for Boston data

  Yelp

  • data
  • API docs
  • Web page for Boston data

  Upcoming

  • data
  • API docs
  • Web page

  Eventful

  • data
  • API docs
  • Web page for Boston data
• Boston Gas Prices

Crime and Safety

• SpotCrime web site
• Yesterday’s SpotCrime GeoRSS feed
• official City of Boston (BPD) crime data not open. Locked up in PDFs!
• BPD twitter feed

Citizen Observer safety feeds

• Select Massachusetts here
• Boston Police community safety feed

Transportation

• MBTA information on rail and bus lines in googletransitfeedspecification format. Also has real time locations of a few subway lines and a few bus routes.

Base Layers

MassGIS WFS (v1.1.0)

• WFS (v1.1.0)
• Local WFS 1.1.0 Capabilities
• Data Layers List

Marine Status

web page for Station 44013 – BOSTON 16 NM East of Boston, MA with feeds of:

• Real time standard meteorological data and their description.
• Real time continuous winds data and their description.
• Real time spectral wave data and their description.
• Real time raw spectral wave data and their description.
• Real time oceanographic data and their description.
• Real time derived measurements data.