Police UK API: Local crime data with Gambas

In the UK our Police force have recently made crime data available via the net.

You can access monthly crime figures by category from their website.

But there is also a simple API available for you to carry out your own data analysis.

Gambas: working with JSON

The JSON file format is widely used by internet sites when returning data requested by an a.p.i. call.

It is relatively easy to handle JSON data in Gambas, once you have an understanding of its basic structure.

Here we use the Gambas method Json.Decode() in a couple of examples.

Getting & using data from OpenWeatherMap

It is easy to get local or international weather data (such as current temperature, humidity, wind speed & so on) using the OpenWeatherMap API.

 

This could be very useful to me as part of my bird box project for 2015.

But my immediate concern involves our central heating system, and how to determine the local weather conditions.