Howard County Traffic Calming Device Locations is a dataset published by opendata.howardcountymd.gov on the Socrata platform. It likely contains the geographic positions and attributes of traffic calming measures like speed bumps or chicanes. The dataset was last updated on December 12, 2024.
Use Cases
- Map device locations for spatial analysis using Lat, Lon, and Type columns (from 13 available columns).
- Analyze the distribution of traffic calming measures by road or area using Road, Crossroad, and Zip Codes columns (from 13 available columns).
- Associate device types with specific address points for inventory management using Type and Location (address) columns (from 13 available columns).
Strengths
- Published on the Socrata platform with multiple machine-readable formats (CSV, JSON, XML, RDF).
- Contains explicit geospatial coordinates (Lat, Lon) for mapping.
- Includes 13 distinct columns describing device location and type.
Limitations
- Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
- Row count and data scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to Howard County, Maryland.
Provenance
- Source
- opendata.howardcountymd.gov
- Freshness
- Last updated 2024-12-12 13:40:09.
- Geography
- Howard County, Maryland, USA (inferred from title and organization)