DRAFT: This repository is under construction; nothing here should be considered current or correct.
This repository contains land use/urban economics data and related code for Bay Area Metro. The major categories of data and code (equivalent to the directory structure above) are:
- applications: the various products and analyses supported by basis
- basemap: information on the current state of buildings and their inhabitants
- control totals: region-wide forecasts for households and employment
- deed restricted units: a database of current housing with low income residency requirements
- institutions: a current and forecast database of large entities (e.g., universities, hospitals) and group quarters
- pipeline: a list of building projects recently completed, under construction, or approved
- policies: information on existing local and regional land use policies
- scenarios: changes to policies and assumptions used to build alternate growth sceanrios
- scripts: code to modify or integrate datasets
- tests: code to assure the validity of database changes
- zones: various boundary files and related data for TAZs, MAZs, Jurisdictions, PDAs, etc; geographic lookups
Common File Types
- each data file has a name and generally ends with a csv denoting that is it a comma separated values text file
- most data files have a corresponding file with "meta" prepended: this contains information about the structure and creation of the data file
- most data files have a corresponding file with "temp" prepended: this is template with blank values
- most data files have a corresponding file with "dict" prepended: this contains a variable dictionary for that data file
Backwards
- start with product
- examines its readme and metadata file (i.e., starts with 'meta' and means information about the data)
- move back toward original main category indicated in metadata file
- look at readme and metadata file
- look at code and raw data