Unsheltered

An experimental/toy data pipeline to build encampment and mapping visualizations for Seattle using public datasets.

Website, updated daily: https://unsheltered.davepeck.org/

More details in my blog post: https://davepeck.org/2025/08/22/unsheltered-seattle/

Using this code

To try it locally:

npm install
just
npm run dev

Random notes about data

Regularly updated Seattle datasets:

• Seattle Real Time Fire 911 Calls
• Call Data
• Customer Service Requests

Permanent Seattle datasets:

• Park boundary centroids
• Park boundary outlines
• Playgrounds
• Seattle boundaries git repo

Other datasets:

• Public schools across the USA