Geomancer v0.1

A set of GIS services for geographical data hosted on the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center.
You can find the code here.

Services

1. Regions
2. Geocoder
3. Reverse Geocoder
4. Parcels in

Regions /regions/ /regions/<region_type>

Lists administrative region types and regions. If no region_type is provided, a list of region_types will be returned.

Example

GET https://tools.wprdc.org/geo/regions/

{
  "help": "",
  "results": [
    {
      "name": "Pittsburgh Ward",
      "id": "pittsburgh_ward",
      "description": "Pittsburgh wards"
    },
    {
      "name": "Pittsburgh Police Zone",
      "id": "pittsburgh_police_zone",
      "description": "police zones in Pittsburgh"
    },
    {
      "name": "Pittsburgh Neighborhood",
      "id": "pittsburgh_neighborhood",
      "description": "Neighborhoods in Pittsburgh"
    }
    //...
  ],
  "status": "OK"
}

GET https://tools.wprdc.org/geo/regions/pittsburgh_neighborhood

{
  "help": "",
  "results": [
    {
      "name": "Beltzhoover",
      "id": "beltzhoover"
    },
    {
      "name": "South Side Flats",
      "id": "south_side_flats"
    },
    {
      "name": "Allentown",
      "id": "allentown"
    },
    {
      "name": "Mount Washington",
      "id": "mount_washington"
    }
    //...
  ],
  "status": "OK"
}

Geocoder

Maps a street address to latitude and longitude.

Required Paramaters

• addr - address to geocode (required)
*

Example

GET https://tools.wprdc.org/geo/geocode?addr=3343 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh PA 15213

{
  "data": {
    "geom": {
      "coordinates": [
        -79.9618888879302,
        40.438345724999
      ],
      "type": "Point"
    },
    "parcel_id": "0028F00193000000",
    "regions": {
      "pittsburgh_ward": {
        "name": "4",
        "id": "4"
      },
      "allegheny_county_municipality": {
        "name": "Pittsburgh",
        "id": "pittsburgh"
      },
      "pittsburgh_fire_zone": {
        "name": "2-14",
        "id": "2_14"
      },
      "pittsburgh_police_zone": {
        "name": "4",
        "id": "4"
      },
      "pittsburgh_dpw_division": {
        "name": "3",
        "id": "3"
      },
      "pittsburgh_neighborhood": {
        "name": "South Oakland",
        "id": "south_oakland"
      },
      "us_block_group": {
        "name": "420030409001",
        "id": "420030409001"
      },
      "pittsburgh_city_council": {
        "name": "6",
        "id": "6"
      }
    },
    "status": "OK"
  }
}

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Reverse Geocoder

Required Parameters

• lat - latitude of target location
• lng - longitude of target location
  OR
• pin - parcel ID of target parcel

Option Parameters

• srid - Spatial Reference System Identifier - default: 4326
• regions_list - list of region_types for limiting results. (available region_types can be found using Regions endpoint.

Example

GET https://tools.wprdc.org/geo/reverse_geocode/?lat=40.44301069&lng=-80.00475374

{
  "status": "OK",
  "help": "",
  "results": {
    "pittsburgh_dpw_division": {
      "id": "6",
      "name": "6"
    },
    "pittsburgh_fire_zone": {
      "id": "1_3",
      "name": "1-3"
    },
    "pittsburgh_ward": {
      "id": "2",
      "name": "2"
    },
    "pittsburgh_neighborhood": {
      "id": "central_business_district",
      "name": "Central Business District"
    },
    "us_block_group": {
      "id": "420030201002",
      "name": "420030201002"
    },
    "pittsburgh_police_zone": {
      "id": "2",
      "name": "2"
    },
    "pittsburgh_city_council": {
      "id": "6",
      "name": "6"
    },
    "allegheny_county_municipality": {
      "id": "pittsburgh",
      "name": "Pittsburgh"
    }
  }
}

Parcels in /parcels-in/<region_type>/<region_id>

Returns a list of parcel IDs for parcels that fall within the requested region.

Example

GET https://tools.wprdc.org/geo/parcels-in/pittsburgh_ward/1/

{
  "help": "",
  "results": [
    "0002M00211000C00",
    "0002M00214000B00",
    "0011J00091000000",
    "0011J00154000000",
    "0001M00018000000",
    "0002M00070000000"
    //...
  ],
  "status": "OK"
}