Charlie Lefrak mappingvermont

US Colloquial Regions Dataset

A curated dataset of colloquial geographic regions in the United States — places like Cape Cod, the Ozarks, or the Texas Hill Country that people actually use in speech but that don't appear as administrative boundaries.

Motivation

The Mapbox geocoder covers cities, counties, states, and postal codes well, but largely misses the informal regional names that people use in everyday conversation. Someone saying "I'm heading to the Jersey Shore" or "I grew up in Appalachia" is referring to a real, well-understood place — just not one with an official boundary. This dataset is a first step toward filling that gap.

Output

DIY Pneumatic Road Tube Bike Counter — High-Level Plan

Gist: https://gist.github.com/mappingvermont/d04a09258ecb0dc82eb170ef7129aa4a To update: gh gist edit d04a09258ecb0dc82eb170ef7129aa4a

How It Works

A sealed rubber air tube laid across a bike lane acts as a pressure sensor. When a bike tire rolls over it, it compresses the tube and creates a brief pressure spike at the sealed end. An electronic sensor detects this spike and counts it. Each bike produces two pulses (front and rear wheel) in quick succession.

	const wtf = require('wtf_wikipedia')
	const rp = require('request-promise');
	const createCsvWriter = require('csv-writer').createObjectCsvWriter;

	const csvWriter = createCsvWriter({
	path: 'famous_vermonters.csv',
	header: [
	{id: 'qid', title: 'qid'},
	{id: 'name', title: 'name'}
	]

	[
	{
	"name": "New York",
	"qid": "Q60",
	"iso_3166_1": "US",
	"iso_3166_2": "US-NY",
	"population": 8550405.0,
	"qrank": 14995035.0,
	"lat": 40.7308619,
	"lon": -73.9871558

	import pandas as pd
	import geopandas as gpd


	def clean_source_data():

	df = pd.read_csv('countypres_2000-2016.csv')

	# remove year 2000 election results
	df = df[df.year != 2000]