Ingest for cities

Your city already publishes its data. Ingest puts it to work.

311 requests, permits, inspections, crashes and contracts sit in open-data portals and city systems. Ingest connects them, keeps the tables fresh, and turns them into reports and answers for the people who run the city and the people who live in it.

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311 data from 113 US cities and counties is already in the catalog.

Two ways in

For city hall, and for the people it serves

The same data serves both: the teams who run city services, and the residents who live with them.

For city teams

Analysts, 311 and service managers, IT, and performance offices.

  • Connect 311, permits, inspections and your own systems. A source not in the catalog yet? Paste its API docs link and Ingest builds the connector.
  • Typed, deduplicated tables land in your own warehouse, or in a store Ingest runs for you, refreshed on your schedule.
  • Describe the table you want. Ingest builds it, checks it, and keeps it current for dashboards and AI tools like Claude.
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For residents

Neighbors, reporters, researchers and civic groups.

  • See which 311 problems ran above normal in Boston, Cambridge and Somerville on the latest full day, on City Watch.
  • Read ten years of Somerville and Cambridge 311 requests, from blizzards to the pandemic rat surge.
  • Find your city below, load its 311 data free, and ask your own questions of it.
Open City Watch

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Is your city’s data in Ingest?

Ingest already reads the 311 requests of 113 US cities and counties. Type yours to check.

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See it on real city data

Built from data cities already publish

Reports Ingest built from public 311 and open data, open to anyone.

City Watch, as it looks today
Daily report

City Watch

Which 311 request types in Boston, Cambridge and Somerville ran above their usual level on the latest full day of data. Rebuilt every day.

Open City Watch
Cambridge City Terminal, as it looks today
City console

Cambridge City Terminal

An operations console built from Cambridge’s open data: 311, crashes, permits, housing and food code, rodent control and contracts.

Open the terminal
The Pulse of Two Cities, as it looks today
Research

The Pulse of Two Cities

Ten years of 311 requests in Somerville and Cambridge: the weekly heartbeat, the seasonal clock and storm-synced winters.

Read the research

Independent projects by Ingest, built from the cities’ own open data. None of them is an official city site.

Start with the data your city already publishes

Tell us your city, and we will show you what Ingest can build from its data for your teams and your residents.

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