Simplified Fetch of Local Geo Data

My county used to have a great GIS site, where you could quickly download Shapefiles or tabular data on a number of topics. I guess it still has a great GIS site, but now it is in arcgis, and there is added complexity to getting what you want. On the flip side, there is now an API, so you can programmatically access the data.

Trying to recreate some projects that I had previously done with the downloaded data, I started writing little functions to read in the files from the API, and I figured it might be helpful to share.

For now, this is very basic, but I’m hoping I can spend some of my down time translating (cleaning up, commenting) more useful functions. I have created aliases for a few of the datasets, and expandign that list will be helpful to myself. Examples are slim at this time.

Check it out on my github repo r4kc