I am very pleased to announce that V2 of Nosy Raleigh is now available! Nosy Raleigh uses Open Data Raleigh datasets to map news and happenings in Raleigh, North Carolina, as well as provide information on local news and local government Twitter feeds. It’s available, free and free of ads, at https://www.nosyraleigh.com/ . Let me […]
Turning Raleigh Trees into Hyperlocal News Reporters
I’m having so much fun playing with Raleigh’s tree dataset and giving the trees something to say. Today I gave the trees some hyperlocal news mojo. How it works: when you ask a tree for local news, the program checks to find streets nearby. It then uses a news API to check WRAL, WTVD, and […]
I Talk to the Treeeeessss… with a ChatGPT API Call
I’ve learned enough since last October that I can revisit my project of having Raleigh’s trees act as tour guides for surrounding areas. The city of Raleigh offers an open dataset of city trees. Not every last tree in the city, of course, mostly trees on city property. My old program searched the tree database, […]