I started writing this post thinking I’d find some other Environmental/Green-related API’s to mash up with CARMA’s data. At the moment, though, I couldn’t find many data sources that make available a comparable data set as openly as the CARMA API does. It’s disappointing, as this represents a barrier to creating really interesting applications. The bar […]

At some point, working with any API involves making HTTP requests to retrieve data, followed by decoding that into a useful data structure for your own application. In the case of the CARMA API, there are five methods that can be called (getPlant, getCompany, searchPlants, searchCompanies,and searchLocations), and data can be returned as either JSON […]