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Some Useful Investigative Open Data Resources

Usually when I want to research a New York organization I start at NY Open Government, which is a website put out by the NY Attorney General and brings together several open datasets.

NY Open Government: nyopengovernment.com

One way to find people’s addresses is to find them in the voter file. Voter Ref contains the voter files for several states, which can be handy for looking up people’s addresses, date of birth, party registration.

Voter Ref: voteref.com

You can confirm the latest information on people’s voting registration and address by using the state board of election’s voter lookup. You will need their county, date of birth and zip code which you can get from Voter Ref.

NY Voter Lookup: voterlookup.elections.ny.gov

See Through NY has listings of many though not all government employees, which can be useful when you are trying to find information on government workers. No addresses here, but you can find salaries and who people work for in government. If you need bulk data, I wrote a scraping script.

See Through NY: seethroughny.net/payrolls

Another good way to gleam people’s addresses and the candidates they search is NYS Campaign Finance Search. If you think somebody might work for a candidate or campaign, you can search the campaign expenses section.

NYS Campaign Finance Search: publicreporting.elections.ny.gov

The FEC Campaign Search includes a contributor’s address and reported employer, which can provide useful information.

FEC Campaign Search: https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/

Every county in New York State is required to post their tax rolls to their website. Tax rolls can be usually found by searching on Google: “XXXX County Tax Rolls” without the quotes. Not only can you find all of the properties owned by a person that way, you can find their address, assessed value and other information. Often the county tax rolls include information on tax exemptions, such as the Guilderland Solar Exemption and Veterans STAR Reduction, which can help you find people who have solar on their homes or are Veterans. I wrote a script to convert the PDFs into Excel spreadsheets.

Albany County Tax Rolls: albanycounty.com/departments/management-and-budget/real-property-tax-service-agency/assessment-rolls
Rensselear County Tax Rolls: rensco.com/411/County-Property-Tax-Rolls

If you need to search a whole county or the even the state, you will want to get the full roll from NYS GIS. You don’t need mapping or GIS software to use the Shapefiles — Microsoft Excel and OpenOffice can natively open .DBF which contain the data tables. NYS GIS offers selected countys tax-maps as a Shapefile or GeoPackage too.

NYS GIS Parcels Program: https://gis.ny.gov/parcels/
NYS GIS Tax Parcels Centroid Points: gis.ny.gov/gisdata/inventories/details.cfm?DSID=1300

In addition, most counties offer their tax maps as ArcGIS REST/Services that can be used in a GIS Program like QGIS. You can find them by searching on Google: “XXX County “REST/Services” parcel”.

How to download ArcGIS Rest/Services as KML Google Maps File: mappingsupport.com/p2/kmz_demo/How_to_download_arcgis_data_as_kmz.pdf

ArcPuller is a Great Way to Get this Data in R: andyarthur.org/youll-like-arcpullr.html

In addition, Joseph Elfelt maintains a list of many open government REST/Services:

PDF: https://mappingsupport.com/p/surf_gis/list-federal-state-county-
city-GIS-servers.pdf
txt file: https://mappingsupport.com/p/surf_gis/list-federal-state-county-city-GIS-servers.t
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csv file: https://mappingsupport.com/p/surf_gis/list-federal-state-county-city-GIS-servers.c
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An easier to read version can be found here: https://servers.cartobin.com/state/New%20York

Sometimes it’s useful to find what state contracts people have:

NY Open Book Contracts Search: wwe2.osc.state.ny.us/transparency/contracts/contractsearch.cfm

See how local governments like counties and cities send their money:

Local Government Reports: wwe2.osc.state.ny.us/transparency/LocalGov/LocalGovIntro.cfm

Many different data sets can be found on data.ny.gov

December 19, 2022 Night

Good evening! Partly clear and 29 degrees in Delmar. 🌆 There is a northwest breeze at 9 mph. 🍃. There are 6 inches of snow on the ground. ☃ ️Things will start to thaw out at tomorrow around 1 pm. 🌡️

Launched my new blog theme, which I’ve been thinking about a lot lately, 🤔 since after my experience in the free coding camp, which taught me a lot more modern coding techniques like CSS3+4, ES6 javascript and modern HTML. A lot of the code on my blog was kind of a mess, it was good to try to clean things up, especially as since I moved over to PHP7 things were kicking up hundreds of errors on the back end due to not always testing array keys before calling them. ⌨ I decided I am tired of all full-screen pictures and particularly how slow they can load a times. Kind of a throw-back to an older blog look but using the latest in HTML codes.

This was kind of a stay at home day, 🏘 as I have this week off from work and I did not sleep well and wasn’t feeling good for a lot of the day. I’ve been continuing to work on my free coding class, 🤖 deep in the bowels 💩 of Redux which is a Javascript-HTML library for building high-speed interactive apps like your favorite email program and social media program. I don’t love it, in part because I doubt I will ever use it, but it’s good to expand my horizons, and know about it because all the cool kids are using it.

Later in the afternoon I went down to the library, 📚 and uploaded the latest version of the blog theme ⏫ and then went out for my evening walk. 🚶 With my boots falling apart and leaking badly, 👢 I’ve not done as many steps as I should. I should either order or go and get some more boots but I’ve been procrastinating a lot lately.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 20 degrees at 6am. Two degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around December 25th. Merry Christmas, lol. 🎅 Think of all that colorful wrapping paper Santa will bring to burn. 🎁 Maximum wind chill around 15 at 5am; Northwest wind 7 to 9 mph. In 2021, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became mostly clear by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 15 degrees. The record low of -19 occurred back in 1951.

Tomorrow will be mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 33 degrees at 2pm. Four degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around January 5th. Northwest wind 5 to 8 mph. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning with a few breaks of sun the afternoon. The high last year was 32 degrees. The record high of 61 was set in 1957. 8.4 inches of snow fell back in 1975.❄

I am thinking about going winter camping tomorrow ⛺ ❄️ before the real-cold weather blows in on Thursday into Friday. I am thinking two nights hot tenting, not too far from here, but I am still a bit worried about the snow being so deep, and how much I would have to shovel out — and if the roads will be icy. 🧤 I guess I don’t have to decide right away, and indeed I probably will just pack the bare minimum for hot tenting, as anything I don’t use at least food and water-wise will most certainly be frozen by Thursday. But at least it should be cold enough to keep things from getting all melty. Or if I wait to New Years Eve, then there might be less snow come the rain on Friday.

Before that though, I do need to think about going to the grocery store. 🏪 I keep finding things to eat around home, but my pantry is quite depleted at this point, especially as I planned to go shopping on Wednesday at lunch time during my work-at-home day, which became plans to go shopping Thursday for both myself and the then-canceled Christmas Party at work, 🎄 which then was going to be after the snow storm, which then became Monday after I visited the folks, which didn’t happen. 🚽 I do need toilet paper, so I really should think about doing that.

Today in 1974, Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as Vice President of the United States 👔 under President Gerald Ford under the provisions of the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Very cold for Christmas Weekend. 😕 Saturday, Christmas Eve, partly sunny but ball-chillen cold with a high near 23. Christmas Day, sunny and cold with a high of 26. Typical average high for the weekend is 36 degrees. I hope Santa doesn’t freeze off his you know what. 🎄

Looking ahead, next Monday is Boxing Day 🥊 when the sun will be setting at 4:29 pm with dusk at 4:59 pm. On that day in 2021, we had mostly cloudy, mild, rain showers and temperatures between 42 and 34 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 35 degrees. We hit a record high of 59 back in 1895.

Weather Update – December 16, 2022

The big dramatic snowstorm is here 🌨

Big whoop, whoop, whoop, look at the high temperature locally. But it’s supposed to cool off later. Maybe I’ll leave work early. Certainly going to take the local to work and home, so I’m not trudging through the slop. I had the option to work from home, but I didn’t want to use more of my hotspot data up, especially as I’m off all day next week, plus working in the office gives me more of an opportunity at lunch time to get at least some of my steps in by walking the Concourse and the Museum inside. Much too icky to walk outside, unless things freeze up, and then it will be icy.

At least after the rain, ice, snow slop mix, it should warm up this weekend, which should hopefully keep the ice from accumulating too much. And maybe it will be gone in a day or two. That would be nice, especially if I have next week off and want to do some skiing or getting around without microspikes.

First half of the week doesn’t look too bad for winter camping, assuming I’m prepared to deal with snow and get a snow shovel to dig out a parking spot.

Today. Feels like … December 22nd.	Rain and snow, becoming all snow after 5pm. High near 36. North wind around 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Total daytime snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible. and	36 degrees	,	4:24 sunset.
Tonight. Feels like … November 23rd.	Rain and snow, becoming all snow after 8pm. Low around 29. Northwest wind 6 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible. and	29 degrees	,	7:18 sunrise.
Saturday. Feels like … December 18th.	A chance of snow before 1pm, then a slight chance of snow showers between 1pm and 3pm. Mostly cloudy. Northwest wind 6 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. and	37 degrees	,	4:24 sunset.
Saturday Night. Feels like … December 17th.	Partly cloudy. West wind around 6 mph. and	22 degrees	,	7:18 sunrise.
Sunday. Feels like … December 26th.	Mostly sunny. West wind 3 to 8 mph. and	35 degrees	,	4:25 sunset.
Sunday Night. Feels like … December 10th.	A slight chance of snow showers. Mostly cloudy. Chance of precipitation is 20%. and	24 degrees	,	7:19 sunrise.
Monday. Feels like … December 22nd.	Partly sunny. and	36 degrees	,	4:25 sunset.
Monday Night. Feels like … December 21st.	Mostly cloudy. and	21 degrees	, 14 max wind chill,	7:19 sunrise.
Tuesday. Feels like … December 26th.	Partly sunny. and	35 degrees	, 14 max wind chill,	4:26 sunset.
Tuesday Night. Feels like … January 2nd.	Mostly cloudy. and	18 degrees	, 13 max wind chill,	7:20 sunrise.
Wednesday. Feels like … January 15th.	Partly sunny. and	32 degrees	, 14 max wind chill,	4:26 sunset.
Wednesday Night. Cold !	Mostly cloudy. and	14 degrees	, 8 max wind chill,	7:20 sunrise.
Thursday. Cold !	A chance of snow. Mostly cloudy. Chance of precipitation is 50%. and	29 degrees	, 6 max wind chill,	4:27 sunset.

Weather Update – December 6, 2022

Next two days will be quite rainy 🌧️

But then things should improve for the days I have off. Rain is holding off for the morning but I’m not sure if I’ll be able to walk in the park at lunch or will be relegated to the Concourse. Probably have to take the local bus home.

For the days I have off it looks decent though I’m not sure what my plans are. Regular season is done up north but there is still some snow around and most of the seasonal roads are closed for the winter. I’d rather wait another week to do any camping in the Southern Zone when things are quieter. Probably take off all of the week before Christmas assuming that I don’t have jury duty. But I guess it doesn’t matter as I’m going to loose the time regardless at the end of the year as it doesn’t roll over.

Today. Feels like … November 8th.	Rain, mainly after 10am. High near 52. South wind 5 to 8 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. and	52 degrees	,	4:23 sunset.
Tonight. Feels like … September 27th.	Rain. Low around 48. South wind 8 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. and	48 degrees	,	7:10 sunrise.
Wednesday. Feels like … November 1st.	Rain likely, mainly before 1pm. Cloudy. South wind around 6 mph becoming light and variable in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. and	55 degrees	,	4:23 sunset.
Wednesday Night. Feels like … October 15th.	A chance of showers, mainly before 10pm. Mostly cloudy. Calm wind becoming northwest around 6 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. and	41 degrees	,	7:11 sunrise.
Thursday. Feels like … November 18th.	Partly sunny. Northwest wind 6 to 9 mph. and	48 degrees	,	4:23 sunset.
Thursday Night. Feels like … November 26th.	Partly cloudy. and	28 degrees	,	7:12 sunrise.
Friday. Feels like … December 6th.	Mostly sunny. and	41 degrees	,	4:23 sunset.
Friday Night. Feels like … November 26th.	Mostly cloudy. and	28 degrees	,	7:12 sunrise.
Saturday. Feels like … December 12th.	Mostly cloudy. and	39 degrees	,	4:23 sunset.
Saturday Night. Feels like … November 20th.	Mostly cloudy. and	30 degrees	,	7:13 sunrise.
Sunday. Feels like … December 6th.	Mostly cloudy. and	41 degrees	,	4:23 sunset.
Sunday Night. Feels like … November 23rd.	Mostly cloudy. and	29 degrees	,	7:14 sunrise.
Monday. Feels like … December 6th.	Partly sunny. and	41 degrees	,	4:23 sunset.

Weather Update – November 28, 2022

I am hoping for a nice weekend. 🤞

It’s still too far out to know for sure, but if I don’t have jury service next weekend, I am thinking after the Pine Bush hike of taking a few days to head out of town to hike and camp, probably in the northern zone where rifle season is winding down. Then later on December I might go out to Brookfield or even Cazenovia depending on the weather and snow depth, or do some camping. Or if we get snow early, Rensselaerville State Forest with skis might be a lot of fun for an overnight or two as that road is plowed year round. Maybe New Years Eve?

Thinking about taking Tuesday off as a personal day, to go for a walk and do personal things, like get groceries. Plus I have a fair amount of time to use up before the end of the year.

Heat does need to go back on tonight as it’s going to be cold. But if it’s in the upper 40s out, I see no reason to heat an empty building when I’m at work. If it’s cold when I get home, I’ll turn the little electric space heater next to my bed on and lay on the heating pad. Tomorrow though, I can consider turning it off again. Probably doesn’t save a lot but every little bit helps, especially with inflation and energy prices being as high as they are. I’ve also tried to make sure my door is sealed for air leaks the best that can.

Today. Feels like … November 21st.	Partly sunny. Northwest wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. and	47 degrees	,	4:25 sunset.
Tonight. Feels like … December 7th.	Partly cloudy. Northwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming calm after midnight. and	25 degrees	,	7:02 sunrise.
Tuesday. Feels like … December 3rd.	Mostly sunny. Calm wind becoming southeast around 6 mph in the afternoon. and	42 degrees	,	4:25 sunset.
Tuesday Night. Feels like … November 10th.	Mostly cloudy. South wind 5 to 9 mph. and	33 degrees	,	7:03 sunrise.
Wednesday. Feels like … October 29th.	Showers. High near 56. South wind 10 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 38 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. and	56 degrees	,	4:25 sunset.
Wednesday Night. Feels like … November 17th.	A chance of showers before 1am. Mostly cloudy. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. and	31 degrees	,	7:04 sunrise.
Thursday. Feels like … December 12th.	Partly sunny. Breezy. and	39 degrees	,	4:24 sunset.
Thursday Night. Feels like … December 7th.	Partly cloudy. and	25 degrees	,	7:05 sunrise.
Friday. Feels like … December 6th.	Mostly sunny. and	41 degrees	,	4:24 sunset.
Friday Night. Feels like … November 13th.	A chance of snow showers after 1am. Mostly cloudy. Chance of precipitation is 30%. and	32 degrees	,	7:06 sunrise.
Saturday. Feels like … November 16th.	A chance of rain and snow showers. Mostly cloudy. Chance of precipitation is 30%. and	49 degrees	,	4:24 sunset.
Saturday Night. Feels like … November 7th.	Mostly cloudy. and	34 degrees	,	7:07 sunrise.
Sunday. Feels like … November 28th.	Mostly sunny. and	44 degrees	,	4:24 sunset.

Weather Update – November 14, 2022

Wintery mix come Wednesday morning 🌨

Going to need the heat on starting tonight. I won’t turn it up much but I don’t want things to get cold. And go shopping 🛒 tonight before the salt spreaders are out tomorrow. It’s been a good run – today is the first day I’ve worn a sweater to work – but winter had to come eventually.

Next week is the first weekend of rifle season in the southern zone, so I’ll probably stay in town as I’m not planning to hunt this year. 🦌 But I’ve heard it might warm up after Thanksgiving so I might take a long weekend then. But I’m not sure if I will take days off if I’m just home, especially if it’s cold and I need to use my heat.

Today. Feels like … November 30th.	Sunny. Northwest wind 7 to 13 mph. and	43 degrees	,	4:35 sunset.
Tonight. Feels like … December 25th.	Mostly clear. Northwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming calm in the evening. and	20 degrees	,	6:45 sunrise.
Tuesday. Feels like … December 3rd.	Increasing clouds. Calm wind. and	42 degrees	,	4:34 sunset.
Tuesday Night. Feels like … November 23rd.	A chance of rain and snow showers before 9pm, then snow showers, possibly mixed with freezing rain. Low around 29. Calm wind becoming northeast around 5 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible. and	29 degrees	,	6:46 sunrise.
Wednesday. Feels like … December 15th.	Rain showers and snow showers, possibly mixed with freezing rain before 1pm, then a chance of rain showers between 1pm and 3pm, then a chance of rain and snow showers after 3pm. High near 38. North wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible. and	38 degrees	,	4:33 sunset.
Wednesday Night. Feels like … November 26th.	A slight chance of rain and snow showers before 10pm, then a slight chance of snow showers between 10pm and 1am. Mostly cloudy. Chance of precipitation is 20%. and	28 degrees	,	6:48 sunrise.
Thursday. Feels like … December 6th.	A chance of showers after 1pm. Partly sunny. Chance of precipitation is 40%. and	41 degrees	,	4:32 sunset.
Thursday Night. Feels like … December 10th.	A chance of snow showers before 7pm. Partly cloudy. Chance of precipitation is 30%. and	24 degrees	,	6:49 sunrise.
Friday. Feels like … December 9th.	Partly sunny. and	40 degrees	,	4:32 sunset.
Friday Night. Feels like … December 21st.	Partly cloudy. and	21 degrees	, 12 max wind chill,	6:50 sunrise.
Saturday. Feels like … December 15th.	Mostly sunny. and	38 degrees	, 12 max wind chill,	4:31 sunset.
Saturday Night. Feels like … December 25th.	Partly cloudy. and	20 degrees	, 13 max wind chill,	6:51 sunrise.
Sunday. Feels like … December 15th.	Mostly sunny. and	38 degrees	, 13 max wind chill,	4:30 sunset.

Weather Update – November 4, 2022

A beautiful November day ahead 😮

More clouds push in especially late on Saturday, but we trade that in for weather in the 70s and a low temperature of only 62 for the night. Right now it looks like we might have good weather for the lunar eclipse.

Saturday I probably will have to work part of the day — down at the library — but I also want to head out to Five Rivers before dark and go shopping and maybe wash my truck as it needs to be washed from last week. Been so busy, haven’t really had time for that. Sunday going out to the folks house for Sunday lunch, so I don’t have to drive home int the dark.

The real long range for Veterans Day Weekend doesn’t look real nice, but it’s my last time to get out camping before rifle season in the southern zone. Maybe I’ll do a trip in December but it depends how well my truck is working and whether or not I have to serve on a jury any particular week. I am on-call throughout the month of December for Jury duty after deferring both my state and federal jury until January and December respectively. I figure one way or another I’ll end up serving. I guess it’s my one chance to vote no and stand up to government abuse.

Today. Feels like … September 28th.	Sunny. South wind 5 to 9 mph. and	69 degrees	, 51 max dew point,	5:46 sunset.
Tonight. Feels like … September 12th.	Mostly cloudy. South wind around 8 mph. and	54 degrees	,	7:32 sunrise.
Saturday. Feels like … September 19th.	Partly sunny. South wind 8 to 14 mph. and	73 degrees	, 60 max dew point,	5:44 sunset.
Saturday Night. Feels like … July 31st.	A slight chance of showers after 2am. Mostly cloudy. South wind around 13 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. and	62 degrees	, 59 max dew point,	6:34 sunrise.
Sunday. Feels like … September 19th.	A chance of showers, mainly after 8am. Mostly cloudy. South wind 10 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. and	73 degrees	, 62 max dew point,	4:43 sunset.
Sunday Night. Feels like … August 26th.	A chance of showers, mainly after 11pm. Mostly cloudy. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. and	59 degrees	,	6:35 sunrise.
Monday. Feels like … September 26th.	Sunny. and	70 degrees	, 58 max dew point,	4:42 sunset.
Monday Night. Feels like … October 15th.	Mostly clear. and	41 degrees	,	6:36 sunrise.
Tuesday. Feels like … October 27th.	Sunny. and	57 degrees	,	4:41 sunset.
Tuesday Night. Feels like … November 20th.	Mostly clear. and	30 degrees	,	6:38 sunrise.
Wednesday. Feels like … November 1st.	Sunny. and	55 degrees	,	4:40 sunset.
Wednesday Night. Feels like … November 3rd.	Partly cloudy. and	35 degrees	,	6:39 sunrise.
Thursday. Feels like … October 17th.	Mostly sunny. and	61 degrees	, 44 max dew point,	4:39 sunset.

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