OpenCurb

Enhance your maps with on-street parking regulations!

OpenCurb™ is reinventing the infrastructure layer for curbside management, services and mobility. Currently, it includes a web service & data feed of New York City (first city rollout) parking regulations. See NYC parking map demo of mapped parking regulations you can build from data feed. To pull data from the feed, construct a GET request with a query string similar to the following:

Basic features are free to use for public consumers. For municipalities, enterprises, fleets and brick-and-mortar businesses looking to incorporate curbside delivery solutions, please reach out to sales@opencurb.com.

http://www.opencurb.nyc/search.php?coord=40.7630131962117,-73.9860065204115&v_type=PASSENGER&a_type=PARK&meter=0&radius=50&StartDate=2015-09-30&StartTime=06:25&EndDate=2015-09-30&EndTime=07:25&action_allowed=1

This example query pulls data for passenger vehicles searching for free on-street parking within a 50-meter radius of coord on September 30th from 6:25AM to 7:25AM New York local time. Adjust dates to present, accordingly.

Here are some data feed key points to keep in mind:

a successful request returns a GeoJSON object where each feature is a LineString representing a set of parking regulations
currently only regulation LineStrings (or curb segments) within Midtown Manhattan (from 30th to 59th street both East and West) are available
an action (PARK, STAND, or STOP) is permitted if it's permitted during the entire time frame. An action is prohibited if it's prohibited for at least a portion of the time frame
for any request, at most 50 of the nearest regulation curb segments of the input location can be returned
if a required parameter is missing from the query string or an incorrect value entered, a JSON error object is returned, similar to the below:

{"errors":["Vehicle type needs to be PASSENGER, TAXI, COMMERCIAL, or TRUCK"]}

The error object has only a "errors" key associated with an array of error messages. The following tables describe the input and output parameters respectively.

INPUT
Query Parameter	Possible Values	Description
v_type	PASSENGER, COMMERCIAL, TRUCK, TAXI	Vehicle type. Required. Refer to NYCDOT for definition of trucks and commercial vehicles.
a_type	PARK, STAND, STOP	Action type. Required.
coord		Location coordinates in (latitude, longitude) decimal degrees format. OpenCurb is based on the WSG84 coordinate reference system. Required.
radius		The distance in meters from coord. Only curb segments inside the circular region defined by the radius are considered. Excluding this parameter is equivalent to `radius=100`.
StartDate		The date in YYYY-MM-DD format when a_type begins. All dates and times are local to New York. Required.
StartTime		The start time of a_type in HH:mi format (24 hour clock format). For example, for 8:30PM use 20:30 instead. Note: StartDate and StartTime are used together to form a complete start datetime. All dates and times are local to New York. Required.
EndDate		The date in YYYY-MM-DD format when a_type ends. All dates and times are local to New York. Required.
EndTime		The end time of a_type in HH:mi format (24 hour clock format). For example, for 8:30PM use 20:30 instead. Note: EndDate and EndTime are used together to form a complete end datetime. All dates and times are local to New York. Required.
action_allowed	0,1,2	0: Return only features where user action is prohibited. 1: Return only features where user action is permitted. 2: Return features where user action is permitted or prohibited. Excluding this parameter is equivalent to `action_allowed=1`.
meter	0,1,2	Applies only to a_type of PARK. 0: free parking, 1: metered parking, 2: free or metered. Excluding this parameter is equivalent to `meter=2`.
duration		Metered parking duration in minutes. Acceptable values are positive integers. Excluding this parameter considers all metered parking duration limits.
stand_type	LOADING & UNLOADING, LOADING	Applies only to a_type of STAND. Excluding this parameter is equivalent to `stand_type=LOADING & UNLOADING`.
stop_type	LOADING & UNLOADING, LOADING	Applies only to a_type of STOP. Excluding this parameter is equivalent to `stop_type=LOADING & UNLOADING`.

A successful GET request returns a GeoJSON object with slight differences. A "properties" key is present in every feature object within the features array. Its value is an object of properties which describe the regulation LineString feature. As every other key-value pair is part of the GeoJSON standard, the following table only explains the properties object.

OUTPUT
Parameter	Possible Values	Description
borough	M	M for Manhattan
main_street	{text}	The street name where the parking regulation curb segment is located
cross_streets	{text}	The cross streets separated by "<-->"
side_of_st	N,S,W,E	Side of main_street
meter_applies	Y,N,null	Y: a_type=PARK and meter is in effect, N: a_type=PARK and meter is not in effect, null: a_type=STAND or a_type=STOP
meter_duration	null, {positive integer}	null: a_type=STAND or a_type=STOP, {positive integer}: metered parking duration
check_days	0,1	1: some signposts indicate that SCHOOL DAYS or SUMMER SCHOOL, for example, can affect regulations. User should check if such days are in session. 0: standard non-special day
check_days_desc	null, {text}	{text}: text description of check_days such as "SCHOOL DAYS", null: standard day

State	Description
Y	Only features where user action is permitted are shown
N	Only features where user action is prohibited are shown
Both	Features where user action is permitted and/or prohibited are shown