On December 31, 2020, the City of Baltimore is launching an updated open data portal. With the new version, the central point to access city government datasets will have an emphasis on story maps and dashboards that contextualize data for citizens, city officials said.
When the update launches, the data.baltimorecity.gov URL will remain the same, but the backend and APIs will be different. That means sites and organizations that pull data from the city’s open data site will need to reestablish those links come the end of 2020.
It’s the result of work this year on the portal and datasets, which started with the 2011 launch of the initiative to make more data from city government agencies publicly available, called Open Baltimore.
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